Senior QA/SDET Specialist

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA/SDET Specialist to build and own a modern quality engineering capability across web, mobile, backend, APIs, and data-driven workflows. The role requires a hands-on engineer who can define test strategy, build automation frameworks, improve release confidence, and embed quality into the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, mobile applications, and critical user journeys.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks with strong emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and execution speed.
• Own functional, regression, integration, API, end-to-end, and where relevant performance and security testing approaches.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and establish clear release readiness and defect triage standards.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and shift quality practices left in the development lifecycle.
• Develop reusable test utilities, test data strategies, mocks, service virtualization, and environment management practices.
• Analyze flaky tests, production defects, and escaped issues to identify systemic root causes and improve engineering quality.
• Define meaningful quality metrics covering defect leakage, automation effectiveness, release stability, test coverage, and execution health.
• Review requirements and technical designs for testability, edge cases, failure modes, and non-functional risks.
• Mentor QA engineers and help establish consistent quality engineering standards across the team.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, automation, or SDET roles, with substantial hands-on ownership.
• Strong programming ability in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a comparable modern language used to build maintainable automation frameworks.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern UI automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO; Playwright experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong API and integration testing experience using REST and event-driven systems, with tools and frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Pact, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of test architecture, test pyramid principles, contract testing, mocks, stubs, and test data management.
• Experience testing distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, third-party integrations, and failure/recovery scenarios.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database validation for end-to-end testing.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers on production-quality issues.
• Demonstrated ability to establish quality standards and influence engineering practices rather than operating as a downstream manual testing function.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing using k6, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent.
• Experience with mobile automation using Appium, Detox, Espresso, or XCUITest.
• Experience testing cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience in fintech, lending, payments, or other transaction-heavy and regulated products.
• Experience with observability tools and production monitoring to support quality validation and incident analysis.

What This Role Offers

The opportunity to establish a modern quality engineering culture, build automation capabilities from first principles, and materially improve the speed and confidence with which the organization ships software.