Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

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What we believe in
ABB’s Process Automation business area enables customers to operate some of the world’s largest and most complex industrial infrastructures, helping them outrun – leaner and cleaner.
We offer a broad range of automation, electrification and digital solutions for process, hybrid and maritime industries, including industry-specific integrated control and software as well as measurement and analytics solutions and services.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, We are looking for software professionals to join our Industrial Automation Digital Organization. The role requires one to lead or be part of a team with extensive experience on Python programming language to build highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the Azure platform. Candidate will be responsible for SQL and Advance SQL development along with Development of data integration modules (ETL/ELT) and should bring solid experience to our team implementing successful development projects

The work model for the role is: Hybrid
 

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Define test strategy, validation scope, and risk-based approach for features, integrations, and releases by reviewing requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical changes.
• Lead end-to-end validation across UI, APIs, services, data pipelines, configurations, and user journeys, ensuring release readiness and quality confidence.
• Drive automation coverage for critical workflows and regression, while collaborating with engineering teams to enforce quality gates and support compatibility, upgrade, and environment-based testing.
• Own defect triage, risk assessment, validation tracking, and release sign-off inputs, while mentoring junior QEs and contributing to process improvements, reusable assets, and quality governance

Qualifications for the role:

• 8–12 years of experience in software quality engineering with strong expertise in functional, integration, system, and regression testing for enterprise-grade products.
• Proven hands-on experience in UI, API, and service-level test automation, along with strong knowledge of automation frameworks and modern QE practices.
• Solid understanding of release validation, risk-based testing, quality reporting, and end-to-end quality ownership across delivery lifecycles.
• Strong grasp of architecture-level workflows involving applications, services, APIs, databases, and integrations, with experience in API and database validation.
• Extensive experience in test strategy, test planning, defect management, triage, and CI/CD-based validation processes.
• Ability to lead quality discussions and collaborate effectively with developers, architects, product managers, and release stakeholders, supported by strong communication skills.
• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in relevant fields with preferred domain exposure (industrial platforms, IIoT, data/analytics, manufacturing, energy, etc.), along with familiarity in tools and practices like Azure DevOps, Playwright, Python automation, observability, and performance-aware testing.

More about us

ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. The Process Automation (PA) business area (>$6B revenue in 2021, 22,000 employees), automates, electrifies and digitalizes some of the most complex industrial infrastructures on this planet. Through its five divisions, it serves customers in the energy, process and hybrid industries – from hydrocarbons, chemicals, water, mining, minerals, pulp & paper to marine and ports, and many more. PA stands at the heart of some of the most important shifts in society, helping the energy-intense industries to safer, smarter and more sustainable operations to enable a prosperous, low-carbon society.

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to make an impact? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.

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