Principal Engineer, Test Automation

Job description

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Job Summary We are seeking a Principal Automation Engineer with 12+yrs of experience in defining the automation architecture, technical roadmap, and engineering standards for API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing. This role will lead development of scalable C# frameworks, establish CI/CD quality gates, guide cross-team adoption, and resolve complex automation and testability challenges across distributed products. What you’ll be doing Own the enterprise-grade automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API, UI, integration, and workflow testing. Design modular frameworks with reusable libraries for configuration, service clients, page or component objects, test data, parallel execution, retries, logging, reporting, and environment management. Define coding standards, branching and review practices, framework governance, versioning, documentation, and contribution models. Establish pipeline strategy for pull-request validation, daily smoke tests, staged regression, release qualification, and automated quality gates. Guide teams on automation suitability, testability, coverage modelling, risk-based selection, and reduction of flaky or low-value tests. Lead technical reviews, proofs of concept, framework migrations, tool evaluations, and resolution of complex cross-service failures. Define dashboards and metrics for coverage, reliability, execution time, defect containment, failure causes, and productivity gains. Partner with architecture, software, DevOps, cybersecurity, systems, and verification leaders to embed quality throughout delivery. Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability through reusable assets, coaching, and technical communities of practice. What you’ll bring B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science / Electronics & Communication / Electrical or related field Advanced C# and .NET engineering skills with strong knowledge of software design principles, dependency injection, concurrency, asynchronous execution, and extensible architecture. Demonstrated experience architecting and developing REST API and UI automation frameworks at scale. Strong knowledge of Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit, xUnit, MSTest, or comparable technologies. Expertise in API contracts, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven integrations, databases, authentication, authorization, and service virtualization. Deep experience with Git, CI/CD architecture, parallel execution, containerized test environments, automated reporting, and quality gates. Proven ability to improve framework reliability, diagnose flaky tests, optimize execution, and drive adoption across multiple teams. Strong technical leadership, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and architecture decision-making skills. Preferred Skills Experience with Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, message brokers, observability platforms, and cloud-native test environments. Experience validating healthcare platforms, HL7/FHIR integrations, connected devices, or regulated software products. Knowledge of security, accessibility, performance, reliability, and resilience testing within a unified automation strategy. Relevant Microsoft, cloud, architecture, or testing certification is advantageous. Knowledge of SIP infrastructure and media components such as Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPEngine, SBCs, registrars, RTP, and WebRTC. Experience with Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Web PubSub, Terraform, KEDA, and container security tooling. Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, risk management, cybersecurity expectations, and quality systems for regulated healthcare software. Experience with Jira, Jama, validated toolchains, Agile/Scrum delivery, and formal release-readiness reviews. Experience in leading team of automation testers for common goal. Equal Employment Opportunity Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic. Reasonable Accommodations Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Recruitment Fraud Notice Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice .