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AdvisoryIndustry/Sector
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OperationsManagement Level
Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in people strategy focus on developing and implementing long-term strategies to align the organisation's human capital with its overall business objectives. This involves analysing workforce trends, applying the latest HR strategy, long-term workforce planning and improving overall employee experience.About PwC
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. With offices in 156 countries and more than 295,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. Our global strategy ‘The New Equation’ reflects how we solve important problems facing the world—today and tomorrow.
At PwC India, our focus is three-fold. First, we commit to build trust by bringing together our capabilities to better serve the needs of our clients, as they seek to build trust with their stakeholders. Secondly, by bringing together our capabilities to enable our clients to create sustained outcomes through solutions that are human-led and tech-powered. A focus on Quality underpins each commitment we make for our clients. Last but not the least, through the PwC India Foundation, we aim to make a positive difference in the communities we live in. At the core of all that we strive to achieve is our people - our community of solvers, who come together in unexpected ways to make outcomes that matter.
In a world of technological disruption, we aim to enable our clients to build a secure digital ecosystem by increasing capabilities in emerging technologies, cloud, and analytics, among others. While doing all this, we remain a conscious organisation and that is reflected through our Corporate Responsibility efforts, our Net Zero journey and our ESG capabilities.
At PwC India, it’s all about One Opportunity. Many Possibilities. A role with us can provide you opportunities to apply your skills beyond the workplace to create ground-breaking solutions for clients and our communities. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com.
Job Description & Summary:
We are looking for experienced software testers with: *strong analytical and problem-solving abilities *willingness and to learn new technologies, tools and adapt to changing project requirements *ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively to meet deadlines *good verbal and written communication skills *ability to work collaboratively in a team setting
Responsibilities:
• Design and implement testing strategies for cloud-based infrastructure and DevOps environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud applications, services, and deployments. • Bridge the gap between development, testing, and operations by integrating quality assurance practices into CI/CD and automation processes. • Design and implement automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. • Understand and analyze requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria to design effective test scenarios. • Analyze infrastructure and deployment specifications to create comprehensive test scenarios covering functional, performance, and security aspects. • Design detailed and comprehensive test cases based on identified scenarios and validate cloud infrastructure components and DevOps toolchains. • Execute functional test cases to validate functionalities; identify, document, and report defects in appropriate tracking tools. • Perform regression, load, and performance testing to ensure changes to the applications do not adversely affect existing functionalities. • Perform validation of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure operational readiness and stability in cloud environments. • Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and cloud-native applications. • Build and enhance automation scripts and frameworks to increase test coverage and reduce manual intervention in testing cloud infrastructure. • Integrate automated test suites seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and fast feedback loops throughout the deployment lifecycle. • Maintain thorough documentation of test cases, test results, defect reports, and key testing metrics for continuous improvement and audits. • Collaborate with test leads, development teams, business analysts, and other stakeholders to resolve issues. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including cloud architects, developers, security analysts, and release managers to resolve quality issues. • Perform cloud security testing including IAM policy testing, encryption validation, and VPC/firewall rule testing. • Validate compliance requirements including GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and PCI-DSS standards. • Perform cloud scalability testing including auto-scaling validation and load balancing tests. • Measure latency, throughput, and response time across cloud services. • Leverage monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch. • Perform migration testing including on-premise to cloud migration validation. • Conduct disaster recovery (DR) testing including failover, backup, and recovery testing. • Perform serverless testing for Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions. • Identify cost-effective test environment strategies for cost optimization. • Validate SLAs including uptime, availability, and reliability verification. • Perform chaos engineering using tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, and LitmusChaos for fault injection testing.
Mandatory skill sets:
• Cloud security testing including IAM policy testing, encryption validation, and VPC/firewall rule testing • Perform cloud scalability testing including auto-scaling validation and load balancing tests • Measure latency, throughput, and response time across cloud services • Validate monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for operational readiness and stability • Leverage observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch • Perform migration testing including on-premise to cloud migration validation • Conduct disaster recovery (DR) testing including failover, backup, and recovery testing • Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, ELK stack, and CloudWatch for test validations • Familiarity with defect tracking and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps Boards, or ServiceNow • Knowledge of networking concepts and cloud security principles • Serverless testing for Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions • Chaos engineering using tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, and LitmusChaos • Identify cost-effective test environment strategies for cost optimization • Validate SLAs including uptime, availability, and reliability verification
• Maintain thorough documentation of test cases, results, defect reports, and testing metrics • Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP including understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models • Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation • Proficient in Selenium WebDriver for browser automation and Selenium Grid for distributed test execution • Proficient in programming and scripting languages such as Java, C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell, • Experience with test automation frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, PyTest, or UnitTest • Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for web-based application testing • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo, and Azure DevOps • Work with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker • Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef • Familiarity with version control systems like Git for source code and test automation management • Understanding of RESTful APIs and experience with API testing tools such as Postman or RestAssured • Basic SQL knowledge for database validations and data verification • Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, or MS LoadTest • Exposure to Agile and DevOps methodologies and practices
Preferred skill sets:
Testing & QA Certifications • ISTQB Foundation Level (CTFL) • ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA) • ISTQB Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) Agile Certifications • SAFe Agile Cloud Certifications – AWS • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner • AWS Certified: Solutions Architect – Associate Cloud Certifications – Azure • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) • Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) Cloud Certifications – GCP • GCP Associate Cloud Engineer • GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Professional DevOps Engineer DevOps & Infrastructure Certifications • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) • Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Years of experience required:
4-7 yrs [Needs to be filled by 30th April, 2026]
Education qualification :
BTech/BE/Mtech from reputed institution/university as per the hiring norms
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required: Bachelor of Technology, Bachelor of EngineeringDegrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Cloud Test AutomationOptional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Partnering, Business Transformation, Career Development, Change Management, Co-Creation, Communication, Creativity, Data Analytics, Data-Driven Decision Making (DIDM), Data-Driven Insights, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Employee Experience, Employee Life Cycle, Executive Negotiation, Human Capital Initiatives, Human Resources (HR) Coaching, Human Resources (HR) Metrics, Human Resources (HR) Policies, Human Resources (HR) Service Delivery {+ 27 more}Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Government Clearance Required?
Job Posting End Date
July 31, 2026Want to know if this job is worth applying to?
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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