Principal Engineer, Test Automation at Baxter International in Bangalore

Job description

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. We are seeking a Principal Automation Engineer to define automation architecture, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards for API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing. The ideal candidate is a systems-oriented Quality Engineer who understands how products and services interconnect, sees the broader product architecture, and can decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically. This hands-on role will lead the development of scalable C#/.NET frameworks, establish CI/CD quality gates, guide cross-team adoption, and resolve complex automation and testability challenges across distributed products. What you’ll be doing: Own the enterprise-grade automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API, UI, integration, and workflow testing. Design modular frameworks with reusable libraries for configuration, service clients, page or component objects, test data, parallel execution, retries, logging, reporting, and environment management. Define coding standards, branching and review practices, framework governance, versioning, documentation, and contribution models. Establish pipeline strategy for pull-request validation, daily smoke tests, staged regression, release qualification, and automated quality gates. Guide teams on automation suitability, testability, coverage modelling, risk-based selection, and reduction of flaky or low-value tests. Lead technical reviews, proofs of concept, framework migrations, tool evaluations, and resolution of complex cross-service failures. Define dashboards and metrics for coverage, reliability, execution time, defect containment, failure causes, and productivity gains. Partner with architecture, software, DevOps, cybersecurity, systems, and verification leaders to embed quality throughout delivery. Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability through reusable assets, coaching, and technical communities of practice. What you’ll bring: B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. 10 years of experience defining automation architecture, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards for API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing. Mandatory: Systems-oriented Quality Engineer with a strong understanding of how products, services, and components interconnect; able to see the broader product architecture and decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically. Mandatory: Hands-on Automation Architect with advanced C# and .NET skills and a strong understanding of software design principles, dependency injection, concurrency, asynchronous execution, and extensible architecture. Mandatory: Hands-on experience architecting and developing REST API automation frameworks using RestSharp. Mandatory: Strong hands-on experience with NUnit or Selenium or playwright for test automation. Mandatory: Working knowledge of GraphQL (GQL) and experience validating GraphQL APIs. Mandatory: Solid understanding of test data management principles, strategies, and reusable data provisioning approaches. Mandatory: Strong awareness of Kubernetes and containerized test environments. Good understanding of communication protocols, particularly SIP, and hands-on exposure t