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# Test Automation Engineer III at PDI Technologies

- **Company:** PDI Technologies
- **Location:** Chennai, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pditechnologies/baff16c1-486c-4d68-87a0-7765fffb29d7

## Job description

For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.

Job Responsibilities:

- AI Platform Architecture & Implementation: Design, build, and deploy intelligent AI-driven platform capabilities that enable automation, intelligent insights, and advanced decision-making across distributed services and data systems.
- Product Innovation: Drive the development of next-generation AI-enabled platform features that enhance operational efficiency, enable intelligent automation, and deliver scalable, high-performance digital experiences.
- Generative AI Integration: Seamlessly integrate generative AI capabilities into platform services, including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent workflows, and contextual reasoning systems.
- Intelligent System Leverage: Utilize Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, and vector-based retrieval systems to build intelligent, context-aware solutions that enhance platform capabilities and automation.
- AI Quality & Evaluation: Develop frameworks and methodologies for validating AI system performance, including response accuracy, model reliability, safety evaluation, and output consistency.
- AI Testing & Validation: Design and implement automated validation strategies to ensure reliability and correctness of AI-driven features, including automated test generation, model evaluation, and workflow validation.
- QA Automation Engineering: Develop and maintain scalable automation frameworks for validating platform services, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities using modern testing tools and frameworks.
- API & Integration Testing: Build automated test suites to validate API functionality, service integrations, and distributed system interactions to ensure reliability and performance.
- Continuous Testing & CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing, faster feedback loops, and high-quality releases.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, data, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into scalable AI-enabled solutions while maintaining high-quality engineering standards.
- Technical Leadership: Provide guidance on AI engineering practices, automation strategies, and quality engineering standards to support platform reliability and intelligent system development.
- Mission Alignment: Contribute to building innovative, reliable, and ethically developed AI-powered systems that improve automation, developer productivity, and data-driven decision-making.

Qualifications:

- Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, or platform engineering, including experience building automation frameworks and AI-enabled systems.
- Generative AI & LLM Integration: Hands-on experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into applications, including prompt engineering, RAG architectures, AI workflow orchestration, and intelligent automation systems.
- Automation Engineering Expertise: Strong experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, or similar technologies.
- API Testing & Integration: Experience building automated tests for RESTful APIs and microservices using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar frameworks.
- Programming Proficiency: Strong programming skills in at least two of the following languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, or C#.
- Cloud Platform Experience: Experience building and deploying applications on major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Data & AI Technologies: Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, AI model evaluation techniques, and data pipelines that support intelligent applications.
- System Reliability & Quality: Experience ensuring system reliability through automated testing, continuous integration, performance validation, and platform monitoring.
- DevOps & CI/CD: Experience integrating automated testing and validation frameworks within CI/CD pipelines for scalable platform delivery.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, product, and platform teams to deliver intelligent, production-ready solutions.

Behavioral Competencies:

- Cultivates Innovation
- Decision Quality
- Manages Complexity
- Drives Results
- Business Insight

PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded benefits program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career.  This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements.  Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all.

## About PDI Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PDI Technologies provides enterprise software and payments solutions that power the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem globally.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Luminate Capital in 2015, with strategic investment from TA Associates)
- **Headquarters**: Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 1983
- **Founders**: Greg Gilkerson

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Convenience retail & petroleum wholesale software, payments, data analytics, and cybersecurity.
- Target customers: B2B – fuel wholesalers, convenience store chains, and petroleum retailers of all sizes (SMB to enterprise).
- Mission or purpose statement: “Connecting Convenience” – helping businesses modernize operations, converge systems, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

## Products & Services
- **PDI Enterprise (ERP)**: Comprehensive enterprise resource planning for convenience retail and petroleum wholesale, covering accounting, inventory, supply chain, and back-office operations.
- **PDI Logistics**: Fuel supply chain management and distribution optimization.
- **PDI Loyalty & Marketing Cloud**: Customer loyalty programs, coalition marketing, and real-time promotions.
- **PDI Payments**: Secure payment processing solutions for in-store and fuel transactions.
- **PDI Security & Cybersecurity**: Managed security services and data protection for retail networks.
- **PDI Analytics Cloud**: Data and insight solutions for business intelligence and consumer behavior analysis.
- **PDIQ (AI Platform)**: Embedded AI into trusted workflows to accelerate decision-making and innovation.
- **Fuel Pricing Software**: Dynamic pricing and competitor analysis for fuel retailers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $112 M (LinkedIn estimate) – or **Total Funding**: Not disclosed beyond early private equity rounds (Luminate Capital, TA Associates).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital (acquirer in 2015), TA Associates (growth investment in 2017).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 1,419 employees (+1.0% YoY) per LinkedIn; another source (Built In) reports 1,905 total employees – conflicting reports.
  - Operates in 7 countries (including Austria, Thailand, Slovakia, New Zealand, United Kingdom) with workforce across 26 countries.
  - Serves over 200,000 convenience and petroleum wholesale sites in more than 60 countries.
  - Released 2024 ESG Report, highlighting sustainability commitments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **40+ years of domain expertise** in the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale vertical.
- **End-to-end ecosystem**: ERP, logistics, loyalty, payments, analytics, and cybersecurity – all integrated.
- **Large, sticky customer base** with high switching costs due to deep operational integration.
- **AI-first innovation** through the PDIQ platform, embedding intelligence into existing workflows.
- **Global reach** with localized support across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Automation**: Expanding PDIQ to embed AI across all product lines to improve productivity and decision-making.
- **Sustainability**: Helping customers meet environmental goals while advancing own ESG metrics.
- **Cloud & SaaS Migration**: Continuing to shift legacy on-premise solutions to modern cloud/SaaS platforms.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in Europe, Asia, and other regions outside the core U.S. market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing integrity, curiosity, adaptability, courage, collaboration, and accountability.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid and fully remote options available; Alpharetta HQ serves as a central hub.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, quarterly perks, and flexible work arrangements.
- **Growth**: Continuous learning opportunities, professional certifications, leadership development, and internal mobility.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tech roles span application development, backend systems, data management, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure; coding challenges may be part of interviews.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – PDI Technologies](https://linkedin.com/company/pdi-technologies)
2. [PDI Technologies – Our Story](https://pditechnologies.com/our-story/)
3. [PDI Technologies – Careers](https://pditechnologies.com/careers/)
4. [Built In – PDI Technologies](https://builtin.com/company/pdi-technologies)

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