Software Development Engineer in Test

Overview

The Software Development Engineer in Test will build and maintain test automation frameworks, define test quality standards, and contribute to test strategy and continuous quality improvement across products or services.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch or extend existing ones.
• Define and uphold standards for test quality, ensuring consistency and confidence in releases.
• Write high quality, maintainable integration and end-to-end tests that follow production engineering standards.
• Leverage AI assistants and tools in day-to-day SDET workflows, including test design, automation, analysis, and continuous quality improvement.
• Build reusable test utilities, mocks, and simulators.
• Contribute to and help evolve the overall test strategy for one or more products or services.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one.
• Design and oversee test strategies combining automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.
• Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, keeping them lean, relevant, and valuable.
• Test front-end, back-end, API, and distributed microservices using tools such as Playwright, Jest, Supertest, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured, and other modern frameworks.
• Perform and organise performance testing with tools such as K6 and JMeter.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.
• Help investigate issues, write tests, support manual QA, and sign off changes.
• Investigate defects and production issues and ensure fixes are validated through automation.

What you'll need

• 4+ years experience in Test Automation.
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks and API testing tools, not just executing them.
• Confidence writing automated tests in Typescript.
• Expertise in designing and executing end-to-end test strategies that align with Agile delivery.
• Solid experience embedding quality early in the SDLC by working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Delivery Managers.
• Experience working in agile continuous delivery teams, including daily coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, prioritize, and drive resolution of defects based on reproducibility, business impact, and release scope.
• AI-first mindset, including use of AI assistants and tools in SDET workflows.

Nice to have

• Computer Science or Information Technology degree, Diploma or similar.
• CSTAE or ASTQB ISTQB Advanced Certification.
• Certified Automation Tester, such as Cypress or Playwright.
• Familiarity with pipeline and event-driven systems, including Kafka, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, queues, streams, and Snaplogic.

Details

• Location: Mumbai.
• Hybrid work arrangement, with work from home and office.