Lead Software Development Engineer - Test

Key Responsibilities

- Mentor and lead a large team of talented Software Development Engineers in the Test

- Define and monitor quality assurance metrics for continuous quality & process improvements

- Lead programmatic best practices by example, be a hands-on programmer and tech guru

- Estimate efforts, identify risks, devise mitigation, and meet project schedules

- Communicating clearly and openly with internal and external stakeholders regarding progress, roadblocks, and timelines

- Leading by example and keeping enthusiasm high in tight-deadline situations

- Oversee technical scoping and design of projects to ensure that projects deliver the expected value on time and with high quality

- Work closely with management to identify risks, solve problems, and maintain progress

- Identify & implement solutions for applying new and smarter test methodologies for uncovering quality risk

- Experience in performance testing using tools like Jmeter, K6 etc

- Exposure to other non-functional testing aspects like security, chaos etc

Required Skills/Experience :

- BTech/MTech in Computer Science or equivalent, as well as a work experience of 7 to 10 years

- Technical expertise - proud programming credentials and current experience of the same

- Expert-level knowledge in one or more programming languages - Java, JavaScript, Golang, etc.

- Should have worked on developing tools or frameworks to test complex micro-services, client applications, and systems at scale.

- Advanced knowledge of the Infrastructure, CI/CD toolchains and ecosystem

- Excellent knowledge of databases and querying languages

- Experience in working or testing with distributed architecture (eg. Aerospike, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, PubSub etc.)

- Deep expertise with any cloud ecosystem - AWS, GCP, Azure

- Experience in industry best practices in SW development processes: Unit testing, code coverage, OO design, code quality, automation, code reviews etc.

- Ability to collaborate and work well with others at all levels in the organization

- Must love working with people - coaching, mentoring, and guiding team members toward career goals