Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Overview

Lead the evolution of test architecture, automation frameworks, and quality engineering practices across distributed cloud-native systems, including adoption of AI-assisted testing.

What you'll do

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation frameworks, quality infrastructure, and testing architecture.
• Define and drive the strategic vision for quality engineering, aligning automation initiatives with business objectives and product roadmaps.
• Champion AI-assisted testing practices and leverage emerging technologies to improve quality, efficiency, and release velocity.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to establish quality priorities, governance, and release confidence measures.
• Drive root cause analysis of complex production and test failures, identifying systemic quality risks and remediation strategies.
• Advance observability, monitoring, CI/CD quality gates, and release validation processes across cloud-native architectures.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to SDETs and QA engineers.
• Lead modernization efforts to reduce test debt, improve tooling, and enhance productivity across development teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software development and test engineering experience including technical leadership.
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Deep expertise designing scalable automation frameworks for distributed systems and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Extensive experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and load testing.
• Strong debugging and observability experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, C#, or Rust.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted testing solutions.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep.
• Knowledge of security testing, vulnerability scanning, and threat modeling.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD platforms and automated quality gates.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.

Details

• Onsite, Bangalore.
• Full-time.