Lead SDET

Job Description :

- We are shaping the future of India by providing end-to-end digital solutions for businesses, institutions, and households. It has a rapidly expanding digital audience with over 800 million mobile connections and over 200 million internet users.-

- It has created an integrated business strategy offering a unique combination of telecom, high speed data, digital commerce, media, and payment services.

- We have a three-pronged focus on broadband networks, affordable smartphones and the availability of rich content and applications.

- Our Platforms focuses on designing, developing, and running end to end Digital Ecosystems in various business domains. Hugely popular products and services have been built under the umbrella of our Platforms.

About the "Quality Engineering Competency Center" (QECC) :

- Building such world-class products, operating at massive scale, requires top-notch product engineering along with deep focus on quality engineering practices. With fast moving development cycles (product releases happening on a weekly basis), the need for automated testing tools and techniques is a necessity.

- We are actively seeking a Lead SDET who will lead a team that specializes in test automation and will bring their expertise to multiple projects and teams within our Platforms.

What you can expect in this role:

1. The Lead SDET role in the QECC team is a highly technical role where you are expected to engage with various Teams, to identify and document the prevailing Quality Engineering practice(s) and their limitations, measure key Quality Engineering metrics to set a baseline, develop a Quality Engineering framework that suggests adoption of practices and tools geared towards improving overall quality and stability of product releases.



2. As a SDET Lead, you will spearhead all the test automation deliverables of your team and provide process and technical guidance on various activities such as:

- Defining and evangelizing overall shift-left based Quality Engineering strategy (focusing on preventive and detection aspects of quality) towards enabling rapid, high quality and stable product releases for Customers.

- Understand the application and create a Testing and Test Automation strategy to get quick and deterministic feedback on quality of the application

- Applying test automation expertise to help different digital platforms within in achieving faster testing cycles, that result in faster product releases

- Define robust test-data management strategy for testing complex systems with multiple moving parts.

- Setting up Build and Release Pipeline using DevOps workflow tools.

- Creating and managing test reports

- Provide detailed and effective bug reports

- Working along with product development teams to help reproduce and debug hard-to-replicate issues.

- Establishing a rigor of learnings from production issues, by way of driving RCA/COE reports, achieving closure on lessons learned/ action items from it.

- Mentoring and helping in on-boarding other team-members

- Manage and review work progress and completion by team members

- Identify bottlenecks, and challenges faced by team, and work with various stakeholders to resolve the same

- Contribute to building and maintaining the test automation frameworks for multiple application platforms and devices, like mobile apps (Android and iOS), web apps, desktop apps, or proprietary set-top-box apps.

- Manage and address tech debt related to automation frameworks and implementation

- Setup appropriate real-time reports and dashboards to understand current state of quality

- Provide holistic view of quality of the product with areas of concerns (and solutions) to stakeholders

- Show and lead-by-example how proper automation implementation looks like.

We think you could be a good fit if:

1. Extensive (overall 10+ years) experience working as SDET Lead (at least 3+ years) with hands on test development background with 5+ years of experience in a technical lead or similar role, leading test automation development efforts. The following skills are must- have for this role.

2. Experience and working knowledge of distributed systems using micro services architecture.

3. Hands on experience with BDD/Cucumber frameworks automation. (MUST)

4. Working knowledge of the technical stacks and practices used in modern distributed architecture systems. Understanding of implementation and deployment architecture of such systems.

5. Extensive daily experience in writing clean and solid code in any modern languages: Java (preferred), Kotlin, JS.

6. Strong working knowledge and understanding of different types of APIs (example: HTTP, JSON, REST, XML, SOAP, sync/async, OpenAPI spec, etc.)

7. Extensive experience in API- test automation- and UI- test- automation:

- API test automation:- Hands on experience with API test automation tools, like Postman,- REST-assured,- Karate etc.-

- UI test Automation:- Hands on experience with UI test automation tools, like Selenium- WebDriver, Appium,- etc.-

8.Experience in developing, enhancing, and maintaining custom test automation frameworks.

9.Experience in managing a team, track and make work visible.

10.Experience in using application life cycle management like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Jenkins.

11.Good Experience and knowledge of design, code, debug, deploy and maintenance.

12.Azure exposure or knowledge will be nice to have.

13.Strong understanding, knowledge of software development and testing life cycle and process.

14.Experience with non-functional testing (NFTs) such as Performance, Load, Scalability, Chaos/Resiliency, Security testing etc. You may/may not be a SME on any of these.

15.Experience working with cross functional teams, dev managers and all the stake holders for the integration and end to end testing.

16.Experience in setting up dashboards and reports to understand current and upcoming work, as well as understand quality of the product under test.

17.Extensive experience in Agile ways of working.

In addition :

1. You are an effective communicator, who has had experience in successfully building and leveraging cross function and cross-team relations to advance team goals.

2. You like to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment that may require context switching multiple times in a day, while constantly balancing your priorities.

3. You have a strong aptitude for solving complex problems.

Educational Background :

B. Tech/B.E./MS/MTech- in- any Specialization- Skills:- Java, BDD, Cucumber, Leadership, Test Automation (QA) and Strategic planning