Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Role : Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Location: Bangalore

About Us

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos.

Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally.

Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses:

• Circles.Life: A wholly-owned digital lifestyle telco brand based in Singapore, Circles.Life is powered by Circles’ SaaS platform and pioneering go-to-market strategies. It is the digital market leader in Singapore and has won numerous awards for marketing, customer service, and innovative product offerings beyond connectivity.
• Circles Aspire: A global provider of Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solutions. Its cloud-based Experience Cloud platform enables enterprises, service providers and developers to deliver and scale mobile, messaging, IoT, and connectivity services worldwide.
• Jetpac: Specializing in travel tech solutions, Jetpac provides seamless eSIM roaming for over 200 destinations and innovative travel lifestyle products, redefining connectivity for digital travelers. Jetpac was awarded Travel eSIM of the Year.
  
  

Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers

About This Role

The Staff Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and implementing robust, scalable, and high-performing solutions to support Circles’s cutting-edge products and automation systems. The ideal candidate will have a blend of strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and the ability to align technical strategies with business.

What We’re Looking For

• Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience will be primarily responsible for providing technical leadership & should be able to provide their strategic approach to quality engineering in the context of transformation.
• Need to have experience in Transition & Transformation with COE expertise for QA, QE, test automation, agile process development (DevOps) any Cloud, service virtualization, test data management, CI/CD/CT.
• In addition to framework/tool development, he/she will be responsible for testing the most technically challenging features of the product.
• He/She will be the expert on a set of components or specialized testing types who can be consulted across projects.
• He/She should be able to review the design and architecture prepared from a testability angle and identify changes needed in test approach and test framework for automation and come out with proposal to keep framework ready when dev team starts completing stories/features.
• Design & Develop tools, test automation framework for various components and/or systems Defining & Executing E2E test strategy for a major release comprising of complex modules/features/components by understanding end to end objective and the design & architecture of the same.
• Aligns with Product Architect and ensures testability to achieve 100% test coverage.
• Focus on continuous improvements and optimization through test automation executed in CI approach, utilizing methodologies/test techniques, and deriving best practices.
• Reviewing designs and code written by other quality engineers and being a technical mentor for test engineers to develop their programming skills.
• Ability to understand the big picture & link the dependencies between various features /components.
• Continuously enhance product/domain knowledge.
• Ability to retrospect the gaps in the test framework & enhance to cover the needs of test coverage.
• Advanced Programming Skills in high-level languages/scripting and ability to appreciate the design & architecture choices.
• Understanding of design principles and design choices, and algorithms applied.
• Ability to understand system engineering & concepts to anticipate the issues related to those so that test design can be covered appropriately.
• Should have strong hands on experience on scripting languages & tooling ( Selenium, Katalon, Cucumber, BDD, Java, Groovy) along with virtualization and test data management.
• Implement AI-powered tools (e.g., for visual validation, self-healing tests, test generation) to reduce manual effort and increase efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging tools, trends, and technologies in testing and automation, especially AI-driven QA innovations.
• Should have good exposure on API automation (Rest-Assured, Katalon etc.)
  
  

Benefits / What Is On Offer

• We provide a great environment and platform for employees to build their career. In this role, you can expect:
• Unique opportunity to be a part of innovating the telecommunications industry.
• Once in a lifetime chance to help shape a brand from the ground up.
• Exposure to the fast-paced world of high-tech start-ups.
• Attractive experience and compensation.
• Working with passionate, smart and driven colleagues in a vibrant environment.
• Get continuous mentoring to fast-track your career.
  
  

Circles is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age.

To all recruitment agencies: Circles will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program.

Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles, employees or any other company location. Circles will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS.