Roles & Responsibilities :

- Define and implement the organization's overall test automation and quality engineering strategy.

- Design and build scalable, maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, mobile, microservices, and end-to-end testing.

- Establish automation standards, coding practices, design patterns, and quality gates across engineering teams.

- Drive shift-left testing, integrating quality activities throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Partner closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, DevOps, and Architects to improve product quality.

- Own test strategy for complex and business-critical features, including functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory testing.

- Develop and maintain automated test suites with a strong focus on reliability, execution speed, and maintainability.

- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and enable continuous quality validation.

- Identify and address flaky tests, test environment issues, and automation bottlenecks.

- Define and track quality metrics, test coverage, defect trends, automation effectiveness, and release quality.

- Lead initiatives around performance, scalability, reliability, and API/service-level testing where applicable.

- Evaluate and introduce new testing tools, technologies, and frameworks where they provide measurable value.

- Conduct technical reviews of test automation architecture and provide guidance on engineering best practices.

- Mentor and coach SDETs, QA engineers, and software engineers on automation and quality engineering practices.

- Establish a culture of quality ownership, where developers and QA engineers jointly own product quality.

- Lead root-cause analysis of critical production defects and drive preventive actions.

Preferred Candidate Profile :

- 8-10 years of experience in Software Development in Test (SDET), Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or a closely related software engineering role.

- Proven experience working as a Senior SDET / Lead SDET / Principal SDET / Quality Engineering Lead or equivalent technical role.

- Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#.

- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing automation frameworks from the ground up.

- Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and clean code practices.

- Strong experience with API and service-level automation, in addition to UI automation.

- Experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured, or equivalent technologies.

- Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices, preferably with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

- Experience with Git, build tools, test reporting, logging, and defect-management systems.

- Good understanding of microservices, REST APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud environments.

- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is desirable.

- Exposure to performance testing, security testing, contract testing, and reliability testing is an advantage.

- Demonstrated ability to define test strategies and quality processes for complex products.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot failures across application, infrastructure, and automation layers.