Job Description

Employment Type

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Permanent

Closing Date

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29 Oct 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

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Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

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Who We Are

Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we're building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We've grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role

Working with your team to execute on the overall Software testing strategy, helping Telstra to simplify our IT systems, strengthen business resilience and ultimately maximize the value we deliver to our customers. You will be engaged to design and optimize testing opportunities within a variety of workstreams and functional areas across the enterprise. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset and collaboration skills are critical to success in this role, as you continue to build your knowledge and expertise in more complex test environments.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay

Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up

Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births

Employees are entitled to 12 paid holidays per calendar year

Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year

Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

What You'll Do

Design and implement robust automation solutions for functional, regression, and performance testing.

Lead automation strategy across multiple product domains including assurance, supply chain, and media orchestration.

Collaborate with developers, testers, and product owners to embed automation early in the development lifecycle.

Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and test environments.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering forums and process improvement initiatives.

About You

Strong hands-on experience in various testing types: Functional, Integration, Regression, System, and End-to-End.

Proven expertise in API automation using Cucumber BDD or Postman Collection Runner.

Proficient with tools like GIT and Bamboo for version control and CI/CD.

Experience working in Agile environments with data-driven testing approaches.

Familiarity with test and defect management tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-driven team with shifting priorities.

Exposure to monitoring tools like Splunk, New Relic, or AWS CloudWatch.

Nice to Have:

Strong communication and client collaboration skills.

Ability to manage QA delivery end-to-end for projects.

Prior experience in the Telecom domain is a plus.

If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you!

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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