Staff QA Automation Engineer
Job Location: Bangalore
About the role:
- Most teams trade speed for quality. We believe quality is what enables speed.
- We are building an AI-first engineering organization where teams ship fast, confidently, and continuously. That only works when quality, data, and delivery are designed as a system—not separate functions.
- This is not a traditional QA role. It is not project management. This is a high-ownership position where you define how an AI-first team builds, validates, and ships production software.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build Quality as a System
- Turn quality into developer behavior, not a downstream gate
- Design automated testing systems that act as guardrails
- Define and enforce what “production-ready” means through systems
- Enable teams to anticipate edge cases, failures, and data issues early
- Eliminate “hope-driven” releases
- Define What’s Buildable
- Partner with Product and Sales to validate ideas early
- Assess feasibility, data requirements, trade-offs, and cost
- Translate ambiguity into clear, executable plans
- Shape viable ideas and stop unworkable ones early
- Own the Data Reality
- Map how data actually flows across systems and integrations
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and reliability issues
- Ensure features are grounded in real, usable data
- Navigate internal and third-party data ecosystems confidently
- Bring Domain Expertise
- Apply knowledge of MarTech / AdTech (identity, activation, measurement)
- Operate within healthcare data constraints and compliance requirements
- Ensure solutions are technically sound and market-relevant
- Drive Delivery End-to-End
- Own delivery for AI-first engineering teams
- Break down work into clear, actionable steps
- Maintain predictable delivery without slowing velocity
- Proactively identify risks and adjust early
- Align Product, Engineering, and GTM teams.
- Redefine QA for AI Systems
- Develop testing strategies for AI-generated, non-deterministic systems
- Validate outputs and behavior, not just code
- Build evaluation frameworks for AI reliability and accuracy
- Ensure AI accelerates development without compromising quality
What You Need to Succeed
- Strong systems thinking across quality, data, and delivery
- Ability to move from data models → requirements → test strategy → delivery plan
- Experience improving engineering quality without becoming a bottleneck
- Confidence pushing back on unclear or unviable ideas
- Focus on production outcomes, not just releases
Core Experience:
- Background in Quality Engineering, SDET, or technical delivery leadership
- Hands-on experience with test automation and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong SQL skills and ability to work with complex data systems
- Experience with AI-assisted development or ML/LLM-based systems
Nice to Have
- Experience in MarTech / AdTech ecosystems
- Familiarity with healthcare data, compliance, and constraints
- Exposure to building or testing AI-first or non-deterministic systems at scale
Company Summary
Zeta Global is a data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.
Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. At the center of its innovation is the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), which unifies customer data, identity, and advanced analytics to transform billions of data signals into actionable marketing intelligence and measurable business outcomes.
Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta is redefining modern marketing with Athena by Zeta™, a superintelligent, conversational agent embedded in ZMP that personalizes the marketer’s workspace, surfaces platform generated insights through natural dialogue and recommends next-best actions to help brands accelerate and optimize their marketing outcomes.
Learn more about Zeta: https://zetaglobal.com/press-news/
Skills Required
- Strong systems thinking across quality, data, and delivery
- Experience improving engineering quality
- Hands-on experience with test automation and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with AI-assisted development or ML/LLM-based systems
What the Team is Saying
Zeta Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Zeta Global ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Zeta Global supports competitive compensation through a mix of base pay, equity, performance incentives, financial benefits and employee feedback-informed rewards. The company’s total rewards approach connects compensation with ownership, financial planning and benefits that support employees’ broader well-being.
- Competitive pay and incentives: Zeta lists competitive pay, equity, performance bonuses and an employee stock purchase plan as part of its compensation and total rewards offerings. Employees also describe compensation as a strength. A software engineer said Zeta offers “good compensation,” “best appraisals and pay raise” and a “supportive work environment,” while a director cited “compensation” as one of the strengths of the company.
- Equity and ownership: Zeta offers company equity and an employee stock purchase plan, giving employees ways to participate in the company’s growth. Its broader financial benefits also include a 401(k) with company match, monthly financial workshops, commuter benefits and insurance coverage, reinforcing compensation as part of a larger financial wellness package.
- Performance-oriented rewards: Employee reviews describe Zeta’s compensation as tied to performance and growth. One employee said, “Zeta pays well,” while another said compensation is “within industry range and revised every year.” A finance analyst cited “great incentives,” and a director described Zeta as a place to “shape your career” with room to move up. (Comparably; Glassdoor reviews; Indeed reviews)
- Benefits that strengthen total rewards: Zeta’s rewards package extends beyond pay through health, dental and vision insurance, mental health benefits, pet insurance, flexible time off, parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility and family-building support, travel assistance for reproductive health procedures, volunteer days and wellness resources. The company also says it uses wellness surveys and employee feedback to shape benefits updates, including expanded parental leave and adoption assistance.
- External signals:
- Compensation sentiment: Employees on external review sites describe Zeta’s compensation as “good,” “great” and competitive, with reviews citing pay raises, incentives, benefits and performance-based earning potential. (Glassdoor reviews; Indeed reviews; Comparably)
- Benefits signals: External profile data lists company equity, performance bonuses, an employee stock purchase plan and a home-office stipend for remote employees.
- Financial wellness: Zeta’s benefits include 401(k) matching, financial workshops, insurance coverage and employee stock purchase participation.
Bottom line: Zeta Global’s compensation approach combines competitive pay, performance incentives, equity, stock purchase access and broad benefits, giving employees both near-term rewards and longer-term financial participation in the company’s growth.
Zeta Global Insights
What We Do
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world.
Why Work With Us
At Zeta, people have the freedom to think creatively, take initiative, and grow. We value curiosity, innovation, and teamwork, empowering everyone to use AI and technology in smarter ways to drive impact for clients, consumers, and each other while shaping the future together.
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