Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Overview

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) drives engineering-led quality by ensuring product reliability, scalability, and performance. The role improves customer experience, release confidence, product stability, and engineering efficiency through automation and proactive quality ownership.

What you'll do

• Set automation direction, mentor SDETs, and drive technical execution.
• Build scalable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend systems, including integration testing.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, optimize pipelines, and strengthen release gating.
• Improve test environment reliability, manage test data, and reduce flaky tests.
• Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing and analyze performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE teams to improve system reliability, deployment stability, and observability.
• Use AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based systems to improve test design, automate test creation, analyze failures, and accelerate debugging workflows.
• Apply AI-driven approaches for log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience building scalable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend systems, including integration testing.
• Deep experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including test integration, pipeline optimization, and release gating.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure components impacting quality, including cloud environments, containers, microservices, service dependencies, and test environments.
• Proven experience ensuring environment stability, including test environment reliability, test data management, and flaky test reduction.
• Strong background in performance testing and engineering, including load, stress, scalability testing, and performance bottleneck analysis.
• Experience collaborating with DevOps/SRE teams to improve system reliability, deployment stability, and observability.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based systems.
• Experience applying AI-driven approaches for log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Ability to work from the Bangalore office 3 days per week.