Senior Lead SDET

Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

**Min Experience: 10 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Lead SDET to join our QA team. This individual will play a key role in building and maintaining robust automation frameworks, ensuring product quality, and mentoring team members. As an individual contributor, you will work closely with development teams to deliver high-quality software products in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient automated test frameworks and scripts across multiple applications and platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand application architecture and define comprehensive test strategies.
• Perform rigorous regression, functional, and integration testing to ensure release readiness.
• Identify, log, and track defects; conduct root cause analysis and work to prevent recurrence.
• Provide mentorship to junior SDETs and help establish best practices within the team.
• Participate in code reviews and offer actionable feedback to improve code quality and test coverage.
• Continuously evolve testing tools, processes, and methodologies to improve test effectiveness and speed.
• Keep up to date with emerging trends and technologies in test automation and software quality assurance.
• Serve as a hands-on individual contributor while working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10–20 years of experience in software quality engineering with a strong focus on automation testing.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong programming skills in Java.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Rest Assured, Appium, TestNG, or JUnit.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile development methodologies.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Familiarity with performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an eye for detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate across teams and functions.
• Proactive approach to challenges and the ability to provide spot solutions.