AUTOMATION ENGINEER (SDET)-2

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.