Software Engineer II - Test

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

About the Role

We're seeking a talented and innovative Software Engineer to join our Engineering Productivity and Tools team in creating robust test automation frameworks and quality assurance solutions. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring product excellence by identifying potential failure cases, performance limitations, and potential vulnerabilities through sophisticated test automation.

You'll work alongside exceptional engineers from premier institutions across India and the US, collectively shaping a product that empowers over 38 million developers worldwide. This position offers significant growth potential with direct impact on product quality decisions and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive automated tests spanning UI, API, and backend services

• Collaborate with product managers to analyze requirements and architect test strategies that ensure product reliability

• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines with quality gates that support continuous integration and deployment

• Contribute to root cause analysis of production incidents alongside Customer Success teams and implement preventative measures

• Establish actionable quality metrics and dashboards to provide stakeholders with transparent insights into product health

• Research and implement cutting-edge tools and methodologies to optimize automation development and execution

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in software development or test automation engineering

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript with a focus on creating maintainable, efficient code

• Hands-on experience with modern test frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, or RestAssured

• Practical knowledge of CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI

• Exposure to one or more of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

• Experience with REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and microservice architectures

• Excellent problem-solving abilities with a systematic approach to debugging complex issues

• Familiarity with agile development practices and sprint planning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Harness CI/CD platform

• Knowledge of chaos engineering principles

• Exposure to test data generation/management solutions

• Background in distributed systems testing

• Contributions to open-source testing frameworks

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform

Location & Benefits

Work Location

• Bengaluru office

What You'll Enjoy at Harness

• Opportunity to shape quality engineering practices at a fast-growing technology company

• Modern tech stack using the latest tools and technologies

• Autonomy to drive technical decisions and implementation strategies

• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off (4 days/yr)

• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

• Regular social and team building events

Join us in our mission to build reliable, scalable solutions that empower developers worldwide. Your expertise in quality engineering will directly contribute to exceptional user experiences and product excellence.

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.