Lead Engineer- AI

Location: Pune, India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

You will work across the quality team to lead Quality Platform programmes focusing on innovation and process improvements across the organisation. Research and lead AI other automation techniques in our testing processes. Cultivate and communicate knowledge and upskilling of Quality Engineers. Responsibilities will include contribution and support of test tooling automation and direct scripting.

You will work on cross initiative quality projects working closing with Quality Assurance Managers and their teams to promote continuous improvement. Focus on latest technology and improvements in our overall test orchestration solution and tools.

You will report to Senior Manager Quality

Your Responsibilities:

• Research, guide and implement innovation across the testing practice

• Champion AI integration into our testing processes to improve the efficiency and help upskill and mentoring of test engineers

• Perform hands-on scripting, PR reviews to our automation frameworks and infrastructure

• Help deliver high visibility customer-facing programmes to ensure delivery of quality solutions

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related field

• 10+ years of Test automaton or development background C#.

• Strong Experience using AI solution within the quality assurance testing practice

• 3+ years of experience implementing Continuous Integration and build automation

• Strong knowledge of the latest AI technologies and tools, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and AI Agents. 

• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms, practices, concepts, algorithms, and data structures

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Expertise working with one or both of C#/.NET ecosystem or Java/JVM ecosystem

• GitHub Copilot or other AI tooling for automation coding assistance

• 3+ Experience applying contemporary deployment technologies like Docker, Terraform.

• Expertise in automation framework architecture: designing with multiple, diverse automation frameworks; Bellatrixis good to have.

• #Experience with Selenium WebDriver, or other open source/commercial market-leading solutions for functional, regression, or performance test automation; Jenkins

• DevOps and repo ownership is good to have.

What We Offer:

Our benefits package includes …

• Comprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm

• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees

• Company volunteer and donation matching programme – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.

• Employee Assistance Program

• Personalised wellbeing programmes through our OnTrack programme

• On-demand digital course library for professional development

... and other local benefits!

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.