Senior Software Engineer – SDET

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take charge of quality assurance for a project or feature area by establishing test strategies, scopes, and exit criteria.

• Evaluate requirements and designs early on to spot risks and gaps in testability.

• Create and implement risk-based testing plans that align with project objectives.

• Validate comprehensive workflows and integration points across various systems.

• Monitor and report on defect trends, coverage statistics, and stability metrics.

• Analyze complex issues using logs, monitoring tools, and environments, collaborating with Engineering and SRE for root cause analysis.

• Manage CI/CD quality gates, encompassing smoke, regression, and integration testing.

• Integrate reliability, performance, and security testing into the overall test strategy.

• Design and sustain test automation frameworks, tools, and accompanying utilities.

• Conduct mid-scale load tests, evaluate results, and implement performance enhancements.

• Assess and communicate quality risks and readiness for release decisions.

• Supervise junior team members in executing test plans and offer guidance.

• Mentor junior staff and review their test artifacts and code submissions.

• Analyze application code to determine effective testing methodologies.

• Utilize approved AI tools to assist in testing and automation while ensuring the accuracy of outputs.

• Provide insights on release timelines, quality, and system stability.

• Carry out additional tasks as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or a comparable mix of education and experience.

• 5-7 years of experience in Software/Test Engineering.

• In-depth understanding of contemporary software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automation, and observability.

• Capability to define and implement risk-based testing strategies.

• Experience in designing scalable and maintainable test automation and associated utilities.

• Strong debugging and root cause analysis abilities utilizing logs, monitoring, and system insights.

• Experience in validating comprehensive workflows and integration points within systems.

• Familiarity with testing for reliability, performance, and security.

• Ability to apply quality metrics like defects, coverage, and stability to guide decision-making.

• Experience in code review with an influence on testability and design choices.

• Capacity to mentor junior engineers and enhance team testing methodologies.

• Proficient communication skills for conveying quality status, risks, and recommendations.

• Practical experience in leveraging AI tools to augment testing and assess outputs.

• Willingness to undertake responsibilities outside of regular work hours as needed by the business.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive and non-discriminatory workplace.

• Initiatives promoting diversity and inclusion.

• Opportunity to utilize approved AI tools for testing and automation.