BENGALURU · FULLTIME
Software Development Engineer in Test
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About this role
We are looking for a highly skilled Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with strong expertise in test automation, Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, and AI. The ideal candidate should have a strong software engineering mindset and experience building scalable automation frameworks, integrating AI/LLMs into testing workflows, and driving quality across modern web applications and APIs. AI experience is mandatory for this role.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Build robust end-to-end test automation covering functional, regression, integration, and cross-browser testing.
- Develop reusable automation libraries, utilities, fixtures, and test frameworks.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution at scale.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs in software testing and QA automation.
- Build or integrate AI-powered solutions for areas such as: Test case generation, Test script generation, Test-data generation, Self-healing automation, Failure analysis and debugging, Intelligent test prioritisation, Automated test-result analysis.
- Work with developers, product managers, and engineering teams to define test strategies and improve product quality.
- Perform API testing and validate backend services and integrations.
- Analyse automation failures, identify root causes, and improve framework stability.
- Contribute to quality engineering best practices, coding standards, and automation architecture.
- Mentor junior QA/SDET engineers and contribute to automation strategy where required.
Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
- Strong TypeScript and/or JavaScript development experience.
- Strong experience in UI automation and API automation.
- Experience designing and developing automation frameworks from scratch.
- Hands-on AI/GenAI/LLM experience.
- Understanding of integrating LLMs/AI tools into testing or engineering workflows.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD.
- Strong programming and debugging skills.
- Good understanding of software testing methodologies and QA processes.
AI Skills - Mandatory:
Candidates must have practical exposure to AI/GenAI, such as:
- LLMs - OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, etc.
- AI-assisted test generation
- LLM-based automation
- AI-powered test analysis/debugging
- Agentic AI for testing
- AI-based test data generation
- RAG/LLM applications for QA
- AI coding/testing tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar
- Candidates with only theoretical knowledge of AI should not be considered.
Good to Have:
- Experience with Python.
- Selenium/Cypress experience.
- API automation using REST/GraphQL.
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
- AWS/GCP/Azure exposure.
- Experience with performance testing.
- Experience with mobile automation.
- Experience building AI agents or AI-powered developer tools.
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