AUTOMATION ENGINEER (SDET)-2

About Centific

At Centific, people are at the center of our culture.We constantly seek out opportunities for people to enhance their skills,

and emphasize work-life balance for all our employees.We believe that competition can bring out the very best in people

– from our annual creative film and speech contests to our weekly office game tournaments,we mix work and play to engage our people and help our clients succeed.

About Job

Must Have Skills
•  C# strong programming experience for building and maintaining robust, maintainable automation frameworks and test scripts.
•  UFT (Unified Functional Testing) hands-on experience automating functional and regression tests for Windows desktop applications.
•  SilkTest demonstrated experience authoring and maintaining automated functional/regression scripts.
•  Silk Central practical experience using Silk Central for test management, execution, scheduling, and results reporting.
•  UI Automation / accessibility frameworks working knowledge of UIA and MSAA, and the fragility of COM / UI automation in legacy desktop apps.
•  Test design and defect lifecycle ability to design test cases with measurable, quantified acceptance criteria (e.g., launch time, CPU/memory ceilings, recognition accuracy baselines) rather than subjective pass/fail, and to drive defects from triage to closure.
•  Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase with established patterns and constraints.
Nice To Have Skills
•  Background in speech, audio, NLP, or accessibility products (a plus, not required if Windows desktop automation depth is strong).
•  Experience automating across Office integration surfaces (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and WebView2-based surfaces relevant to New Outlook (Monarch) and Copilot.
•  Familiarity with installer-driven release risk, smoke-test gating, and regression exit criteria as delivery signals.
•  Exposure to performance, stability, and long-session validation for desktop applications.
•  Scripting beyond C# (e.g., PowerShell/Python) for test data, environment setup, and CI integration.

Centific is an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create an inclusive workplace and leverage the power of diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate or allow harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, military status or any other legally protected status. Workplace discrimination related to being pregnant and pregnancy-related harassment, including discrimination in the hiring process, is strictly prohibited in Centific Global Solutions.