Backbase - Senior Software Development Engineer - Test

Role Overview:

As Senior SDET, you own quality for this domain together with the engineering team: test strategy, automation completeness, and the team's ability to execute effectively.

This is a hands-on test design and automation role - not a downstream QA handoff.

You will partner with Product, UX, and full-stack engineers (web, mobile, backend, AI-assisted features) to shift quality left and scale automation.

Responsibilities :

- Define and execute test strategy and test plans per release (scope, risks, schedule, entry/exit criteria).

- Co-author acceptance criteria and Gherkin scenarios with Product; act as quality gatekeeper before releases.

- Build and maintain Playwright web E2E tests for real-world customer journeys across engagement channels.

- Govern mobile E2E strategy (Android/iOS) with engineers; use device-farm/matrix testing.

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD with GitHub Actions (smoke, regression, quality gates).

- Manage test environments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

- Use Grafana (or similar) to analyse test results and improve feedback loops.

- Combine automation with exploratory and manual testing for edge cases; reduce flakiness and improve parallelization.

- Coach engineers on TDD, BDD, contract tests, synthetic data, and shift-left practices.

- Advocate AI-assisted testing (generation, visual regression, maintenance).

Requirements :

- 5+ years as SDET or hands-on QA with an automation-first mindset.

- Strong test planning and acceptance-criteria design with Product/UX.

- Playwright (web), Espresso (Android), XCUITest (iOS).

- Java and JavaScript/TypeScript; Angular SPA, mobile, microservices.

- API testing (REST, Postman, RestAssured or equivalent).

- CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), BDD/Gherkin, web and mobile E2E.

- Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes.

- Device/browser farms (Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or equivalent).

- Git/GitHub, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).

- Non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, localization).

Nice to have :

- Digital banking, martech, or campaign/engagement management.

- Performance testing (k6, Gatling, JMeter).

- SaaS or enterprise software testing experience.

- AI/ML product testing; XRay, CucumberStudio, SonarCloud, security tooling.

What We Offer :

- Premium customer-facing platform used by leading banks worldwide.

- Shape quality engineering across web, mobile, backend, and AI orchestration.

- Global, distributed team with core hours in India and overlap with Europe.