Senior / Staff SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Overview

Senior and Staff SDETs embedded across Galaxy's product teams (Lending, Trading, Operations, Custody, Settlement, Staking, Derivatives, or Retail mobile apps) to shape quality engineering and drive reliability on institutional-grade crypto and fiat platforms.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks and suites for APIs, backend services, web and mobile UI (Android/iOS), and blockchain-integrated components.
• Define and drive the quality strategy for your product team, including test planning, coverage analysis, risk assessment, and release readiness.
• Partner closely with developers, DevOps, and product managers to shift quality left and influence system design for testability.
• Analyze test results, production incidents, and system behavior to identify patterns and drive systemic improvements.
• Build and maintain CI/CD-integrated test pipelines that give teams fast, reliable feedback.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate test creation, code analysis, and automation workflows.
• Contribute to performance testing, security validation, and observability practices.
• Mentor other engineers on testing practices, code quality, and automation design.
• At Staff level: set technical direction for quality engineering across multiple teams or domains.
• At Staff level: drive cross-team alignment on testing standards, frameworks, and tooling.
• At Staff level: identify high-impact quality problems before they're obvious and build consensus around solutions.
• At Staff level: act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in quality engineering or software development in test, with meaningful ownership of automation strategy and execution.
• Strong programming skills in Python (primary) or similar (JavaScript, Java, Go).
• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks (e.g., Pytest, Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright, Postman/Newman).
• Deep understanding of API testing, microservices architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Git, GitHub workflows, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), and issue tracking (JIRA).
• Strong debugging and analytical skills, comfortable with logs, metrics, and traces (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience working in Agile environments with close collaboration across engineering and product.
• Clear, proactive communication: surfaces risks, shares context, and keeps people aligned.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., LLM-based coding assistants) to accelerate engineering work, with an eagerness to push those practices further.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, fintech, or digital assets / crypto.
• Familiarity with blockchain APIs, wallets, smart contracts, or on-chain data.
• Experience with Web3 testing tools (Hardhat, Brownie, Foundry).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Knowledge of contract testing (Pact), test data management, or service virtualization.
• Performance or security testing experience (Locust, k6, OWASP).
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team capabilities.
• Experience building, testing, or working with AI agents and agentic workflows.

Details

• Location: Mumbai office, with flexibility for remote work within India.