Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5 years

JobType: full-time

The SDET/QA function serves as the engineering owner for quality, responsible for architecting scalable test automation, strengthening CI/CD and release pipelines, and elevating quality across distributed systems and ML-driven workflows. In this role, you will design robust testing frameworks, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team quality strategy to ensure fast, reliable, and confident software delivery.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Planning

• Define and implement comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and data teams to understand requirements and translate them into detailed test plans and test cases.
• Drive quality ownership across the development lifecycle.

Automation Development

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks.
• Write, execute, and maintain automated test suites using modern testing tools and frameworks.
• Continuously optimize automation coverage, execution speed, and reliability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation.

Manual & Exploratory Testing

• Perform hands-on manual testing for new features and complex workflows.
• Execute exploratory testing to identify edge cases, risks, and system weaknesses.
• Log, track, and validate defects through to resolution.

Quality Engineering & Leadership

• Ensure high software quality through continuous testing, validation, and release readiness checks.
• Review test code and provide feedback to maintain engineering and automation standards.
• Mentor and guide junior SDETs and QA engineers, fostering a strong quality-first culture.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging testing tools, frameworks, and quality engineering practices.
• Introduce best practices, tools, and processes to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Contribute to testability, observability, and reliability improvements across services.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 5–12 years of experience in software testing with strong exposure to both manual and automated testing.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining UI and API automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Postman, JUnit, TestNG, or similar.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or C#.
• Experience testing distributed systems, APIs, and modern web applications.

Skills

Senior SDET • Test Automation • UI & API Testing • Playwright • Selenium • CI/CD • Java • Python • Quality Engineering • Automation Frameworks