Senior Software Engineer - Test

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. About the Role We're seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead our Engineering Productivity initiatives and drive our quality automation strategy. In this role, you'll design sophisticated test frameworks and quality solutions that ensure exceptional reliability for products used by over 38 million developers globally. As a senior member of our engineering team, you'll provide technical leadership while collaborating with top-tier engineers from premier institutions across India and the US. This position offers substantial impact on our engineering culture and product quality standards, with clear pathways to technical leadership and architectural decision-making. Key Responsibilities Design and lead the development of enterprise-grade test automation frameworks and tools that support our CI/CD pipeline Provide technical leadership in designing comprehensive test strategies that address functional requirements, performance benchmarks, and scalability challenges Mentor junior engineers and establish quality engineering best practices across the organization Partner with product leadership to establish quality gates and metrics that drive continuous improvement Collaborate with incident response teams for critical production issues and implement systematic approaches to prevent recurrence Drive innovation by researching and implementing cutting-edge tools and methodologies in test automation Collaborate with architecture teams to ensure testability is built into system design Establish technical standards for quality automation code and provide code review leadership Influence product roadmap decisions through data-driven quality insights and risk analysis Qualifications 4-6 years of software engineering experience with significant focus on quality automation and tooling Expert-level programming skills in at least one major language (Java, Python, or JavaScript) with strong knowledge of others Demonstrated experience architecting and implementing test automation frameworks at scale Deep understanding of CI/CD systems and experience optimizing quality gates within deployment pipelines Extensive experience with container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes in test/production environments Proven expertise with one or more cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and infrastructure-as-code practices Strong background in performance engineering, load testing, and distributed systems troubleshooting Exper ... (truncated, view full listing at source)