Lead Software Engineer in Test
Desired Experience Range: 10+ years
Location of Requirement: Bangalore
Key Responsibilities
- As a Lead SDET, you will play a crucial role in strengthening test automation strategies, leading quality initiatives, and championing a culture of excellence in engineering.
- Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DE&E Technology
- Write and review a lot of code and test
- Enhance framework observability with proper metrics and presentations
- Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, Data, API and Integration levels of testing using python or other OO language
- Demonstrate ownership for the projects delivered by the team and department
- Knowledge of system design and implementation, best practices to guide and mentor
- Participate in design discussions for our platform to help evolve it in a way that enables richer testing scenarios that simplify detection and prevention
- Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
- Contribute to end-to-end acceptance tests
- Where necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means
- Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible
Required Experience/Skills:
- Minimum of 7 years of hands-on software test development experience, including both functional and non-functional test development
- Passion for driving best practices in the testing space
- Proficiency with Python or other OO language
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience writing complex database queries
- Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
- Strong knowledge for establishing and improving product quality
- Experience building or improving test automation frameworks.
- Proficiency CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker and other similar tools.
- Proficiency in UI and API automation (Selenium, Robot, Watir)
- Proficiency in Gherkin ( BDD /TDD )
- Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team