Software Development Engineer IV – QA

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

📋 Description

• Establish and oversee the comprehensive automated testing strategy for web portals and backend microservices, ensuring a balance between UI, API, contract, integration, and end-to-end coverage.

• Create testing strategies for distributed, event-driven systems, encompassing asynchronous SNS/SQS flows, eventual consistency, idempotency, message ordering, retries, and dead-letter handling.

• Build and sustain web and API test automation frameworks utilizing Java and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Automate API and service-level testing for REST/JSON and asynchronous messaging protocols.

• Develop scalable framework abstractions, including page objects, fixtures, data builders, and reusable test harnesses.

• Design tests for services hosted on ECS, EKS, and Lambda, which includes environment provisioning and decommissioning.

• Utilize TestContainers and LocalStack for local testing of AWS integrations.

• Lead performance, load, resilience, security, reliability, and chaos/failure-injection testing efforts.

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines while enhancing test reliability, execution time, parallel execution, and observability.

• Establish and monitor quality metrics such as coverage, escape rate, MTTR, and flake rate.

• Utilize LLM-based tools to streamline test authoring, framework development, test data generation, debugging, failure triage, code review, and boilerplate scaffolding.

• Advocate for responsible AI adoption within the QA team and guide engineers on the effective utilization of AI tools.

• Collaborate with developers, review application and test code, and resolve issues promptly.

• Mentor and elevate the skills of SDE-II/III QA engineers.

• Influence design and architecture discussions to enhance testability and promote early quality integration.

• Assess and implement new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient programming skills in Java (Spring Boot ecosystem) and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Selenium for web automation tasks.

• Demonstrated experience in testing microservices and API-based systems, including asynchronous/event-driven architectures like SNS/SQS or equivalent messaging systems.

• Background in testing cloud-native applications on AWS, including ECS, EKS, and Lambda services.

• Familiarity with containers/Docker and Kubernetes technologies.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, test integration, and quality gates in pipelines.

• Experience in performance/load testing and non-functional quality assessments.

• Proficient with API automation tools such as Postman or REST-assured, along with a solid understanding of REST APIs.

• Basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux systems and scripting capabilities.

• A problem-solving attitude, keen attention to detail, and the ability to drive quality decisions and mentor others effectively.

• Practical experience using LLM/AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.

• Familiarity with contract testing, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability tools, identity verification/KYC/AML, and LLM/AI-powered features is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible working hours and the option for remote work.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• A collaborative and inclusive company culture.