Senior Software Development Engineer in Testing

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced

Senior Software Development Engineer in Testing (Senior SDET)

to contribute to the quality of our AI-driven cloud operations platform. This role focuses on building scalable, reliable, and intelligent test automation systems to ensure high-quality releases in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

The ideal candidate will be hands-on with modern quality engineering practices, including automation, API testing, and cloud-native validation, while working closely with engineering teams to ensure end-to-end product quality across distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain
• scalable automation frameworks and test suites
• across UI, API, and integration layers
• Collaborate with developers to
• embed quality practices early in the development lifecycle (shift-left)
• Develop and execute
• automated test cases
• and ensure integration into CI/CD pipelines
• Contribute to defining and implementing
• test strategies for microservices-based and distributed systems

Perform

• API-first testing
• , including validation of REST endpoints and schema/contracts
• Identify, debug, and track defects, working closely with engineering teams for resolution

Leverage

• logs, metrics, and traces
• to validate system behavior and improve production quality

Ensure

• adequate test coverage
• and maintain high standards for release quality
• Contribute to improving
• automation frameworks, tools, and processes
• Participate in design and code reviews to
• improve testability and quality
• Support test data setup, environment configuration, and test execution in cloud environments

Desired Skills and Requirements

Must Have

• Strong programming experience in
• Python (preferred) or Java/JavaScript

Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks

Playwright / Cypress (UI Automation)

• Pytest, Robot Framework, or similar frameworks
• Strong experience in
• API testing

• REST APIs using tools like
• Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Python (requests)

Experience with

• CI/CD tools
• such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Solid understanding of
• cloud-native architectures
• (microservices, containers, distributed systems)
• Experience working with
• Docker and Kubernetes-based environments
• Strong understanding of
• SDLC and Agile methodologies
• Experience testing
• cloud-based applications
• , preferably on AWS

Familiarity with

contract testing / schema validation (OpenAPI, Pact, etc.)

Exposure to

• observability tools
• such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch

Familiarity with

• AI-driven or intelligent test automation tools
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

• Experience testing
• AI/ML-driven systems or data-intensive applications

, including

• Validating outputs for accuracy and consistency
• Understanding non-deterministic system behavior (e.g., LLM-based features)

Experience with

• test data management and validation frameworks
• (e.g., Great Expectations)

Knowledge of

• event-driven architectures
• (Kafka, messaging systems)

Exposure to

security testing fundamentals (OWASP)

Experience with

• shift-right practices
• such as monitoring, logging, or canary validation

Soft Skills

• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team
• Attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership

Experience

5-7

• years of experience in
• test automation / quality engineering
• Proven experience working in
• agile, fast-paced product environments
• Experience contributing to
• automation frameworks and test strategy implementation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field