Sr Staff Test Engineer

Our Company

Teradata empowers companies to achieve high‑impact business outcomes through analytics. With a powerful combination of industry expertise and leading hybrid cloud technologies for data warehousing and big data analytics, Teradata helps organizations unlock the full potential of their data at scale.

Partnering with top companies around the world, Teradata enables customers to improve customer experience, mitigate risk, drive product innovation, achieve operational excellence, transform finance, and optimize assets. Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts as a future‑focused company for its technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and ability to deliver meaningful business value.

At Teradata, our culture is shaped by the diversity of our people. We value a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative environment where individuals bring unique perspectives while sharing a common goal: making Teradata-and our people-the best they can be.

Our Team

Our team is part of Teradata's global engineering organization, focused on building and validating high‑quality data and analytics platforms that support mission‑critical workloads. We work collaboratively across disciplines to design, develop, and test technologies used by customers in on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Teams at Teradata tackle complex engineering challenges related to performance, scalability, reliability, and integration. Engineers are encouraged to think at a system level, apply strong technical fundamentals, and contribute to solutions that deliver real customer and business value.

Collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning are central to how we work. Our teams share ownership of outcomes and are united by a commitment to building robust, scalable solutions and continuously raising the bar on quality.

Role Overview

The Senior Staff Test Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, leading, and executing test strategy for complex, business‑critical features and systems. This role serves as a test architect, providing technical leadership across functional, system, and non‑functional testing while influencing quality standards across multiple teams.

The position requires deep hands‑on expertise, strong system‑level understanding, and the ability to drive quality outcomes across distributed, large‑scale software systems. The Senior Staff Test Engineer partners closely with architects, development teams, and product stakeholders to ensure product readiness, scalability, and customer confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive end‑to‑end test strategy for complex, release‑defining features across multiple components or subsystems
• Act as test architect, defining testing approaches, frameworks, tools, and best practices
• Design, develop, and evolve automated test frameworks to improve coverage, reliability, and execution efficiency
• Lead system, integration, regression, and non‑functional testing, including performance, scalability, stress, and endurance testing
• Simulate customer‑like environments and workloads to validate real‑world usage scenarios
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for testing, troubleshooting complex system and production‑like issues
• Identify quality risks early and proactively drive mitigation strategies across teams
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, and product owners throughout the development lifecycle
• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, tools, and infrastructure
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to test engineers across teams
• Influence quality standards, architectural decisions, and long‑term test strategy across the organization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or test automation
• Proven experience testing complex, distributed, or large‑scale systems
• Strong expertise in test automation frameworks, tools, and CI/CD integration
• Hands‑on experience with performance, scalability, and benchmark testing
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills across system‑level failures
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Ability to operate independently, drive initiatives, and influence without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing database platforms, distributed systems, or cloud‑native services
• Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Shell)
• Experience with containerized environments and modern cloud platforms
• Familiarity with customer production environments and operational testing
• Experience leading cross‑team testing initiatives or large testing programs

Role Characteristics

• Senior individual contributor role (no direct people management required)
• High degree of ownership and technical autonomy
• Broad impact across multiple teams and releases
• Expected to influence product quality, architecture, and engineering best practices

Location

This position is based in Hyderabad, India. The role may offer flexibility depending on business needs and team alignment. Limited travel may be required.

Benefits

At Teradata, we are committed to supporting our employees both professionally and personally. Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health, medical, and insurance benefits
• Retirement and savings plans
• Paid time off, holidays, and leave programs
• Opportunities for continuous learning, professional development, and career growth
• A collaborative, inclusive, and flexible work environment