Software Engineer in Test

Xebia | Shaping Tomorrow with AI Today About Xebia Xebia is a global leader in IT consulting, software engineering, and training. With over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,500+ professionals across 16 countries, Xebia specialises in Artificial Intelligence, Data and Cloud, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Products and Platforms. With a strong focus on engineering excellence and a people-first culture, they equip organisations to apply emerging technologies that accelerate business innovation and drive sustainable competitive advantage. Xebia leads with a responsible and human-centric approach to AI, ensuring organisations shape a better tomorrow for all. We are seeking a seasoned QA and reliability engineering leader to define and drive our automation-first quality strategy, deeply embedded in our CI/CD workflows and platform engineering culture. This role is core to delivering robust, single-click pipelines, high-reliability environments, and data-driven insights at scale. As a Senior Engineer, you'll own strategy and execution for test automation, synthetic data generation, load and performance testing, resilience testing, and environment optimization across platform services. Your Role & Responsibilities: Build and scale automated QA frameworks across services, APIs, and UI for platform-grade quality Drive test enforcement in single-click CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or equivalent Define and implement automated test data creation strategies using factories, mocks, and synthetic data generation tools Design and manage on-demand performance and load test environments using tools like k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust Architect and orchestrate resilience, fault-injection, and chaos testing strategies for critical platform components Establish performance environment strategy for multi-tenant, scalable systems with dynamic test coverage Skills & Experience Required 6+ years in QA automation, reliability engineering, or platform QA roles Hands-on experience with automation frameworks: Playwright, Selenium, REST-assured, or similar Proven experience in load, stress, and chaos testing for cloud-native distributed systems Deep experience with test data strategy, including synthetic test data, mocking, and data anonymization Expertise with CI/CD tooling and integration of quality gates within pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) Strong knowledge of cloud environments (GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes-based deployments Familiarity with contract testing, component testing, and non-functional validation techniques