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Harness

Harness

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on May 22, 2025
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Technical Quality Engineer, who owns, enjoys & contributes towards quality of the whole product, covering functional, automation, performance, scalability, usability testing & beyond with 4-8 years of experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Understands the feature requirements and tests the features for quality, scalability, usability, performance, etc by working closely with the PMs, Devs, CS teams etc.
  • Automate repeated steps related to testing, setting up environment, configuration, etc.
  • Follows all Quality Hygiene processes (updates Test case, Bug & Test script attributes such as priority, components, tags, Escape analysis, etc).
  • Involve & participate actively in CFD analysis, drive RCA for the CFDs, learn from the gaps, and focus on continuous improvement.
  • Applies the "Test Pyramid" model and ensures quality is built-in across the Product life cycle.
  • Leverages Alpha & Beta testing for eligible features, ensures customer needs are met across different Personas.

Requirements:

  • Strong expertise in understanding features, product architecture, and come up with 100% test coverage for the features developed.
  • Optimises test cases without compromising on quality.
  • Able to deploy applications on Docker, Kubernetes & debug technical issues.
  • Working knowledge of at least one Cloud Platforms (Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Azure, etc).
  • Good programming knowledge in Java & Javascript
  • Experience with the latest tools and industry best practices - Front-end web application test automation (e.g. Selenium Web Driver, Cypress) and REST API testing frameworks (e.g. rest-assured)
  • Automation experience in UI and APIs.
  • Should be well versed with DevOps domain like Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, etc.
  • Should be passionate about exploratory testing, in-sprint automation using various open-source, performance testing, etc.
  • Enjoys a fast-paced start-up culture and is open/flexible to adapt to the dynamic needs of the business.
  • Continuous learner loves technical challenges and likes to involve in finding the solution.
  • Understands and appreciates the needs of high growth startup organisation and puts customer and company ahead of everything.

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

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

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 security@harness.io. 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.