Senior SDET
Exp : 5- 7 Years
Location : Bengaluru
About the Role :
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior SDET to join our Quality Engineering team. This role is ideal for a technically strong individual with deep experience in building and maintaining automation frameworks, testing highly dynamic products, and simulating real-world customer use cases in fast-changing environments.
Youll work on validating cutting-edge technologies, especially in Machine Learning and Generative AI-powered platforms, ensuring continuous product quality in a world of rapid upgrades and continuous delivery. This is a role for someone who thrives in highly technical environments and has a customer-first mindset.
Key Responsibilities :
- Build, extend, and maintain scalable and reusable test automation frameworks (UI, API, Integration).
- Hands-on expertise with tools like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar modern frameworks.
- Contribute to automation for customer use-case scenarios and CS-reported defects.
- Ensure automation coverage keeps pace with rapid product changes, upgrades, and new customer workflows.
- Act as a quality championleading testing efforts for assigned features and advocating best practices.
- Review engineering stories, assess test impact, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Implement TDD, ATDD practices and use code quality tools to raise overall code health.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to understand the customers point of view.
- Communicate and work closely with Developers, DevOps, and other QA engineers.
- Provide constructive feedback on product documentation and usability.
- Quickly gain deep understanding of the solution domain, especially ML workflows and AI model pipelines.
- Analyze customer-reported defects and design preventive testing strategies.
- Provide input into ML and Gen AI testing where applicable.
- Troubleshoot issues in builds, deployments, and CI / CD pipelines.
- Own and perform release regression, performance testing, and installer configuration validation.
- Ensure timely delivery of testing artifacts to avoid cross-team dependency delays.
- Share knowledge with team members and help upskill junior engineers.
- Drive initiatives for continuous improvement in tools, processes, and team capabilities.
Qualifications :
5- 7 years of experience as SDET or in a similar QA Automation role.Proficiency in at least one test automation framework : Cypress, Playwright, Selenium.Strong programming / scripting skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Java.Solid understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and backend systems.Familiarity with CI / CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).Experience in performance testing tools like JMeter, k6, or Locust (bonus).Hands-on with API and UI test automation, preferably using BDD / TDD techniques.Exposure to ML / AI domains with the ability to validate data workflows and AI model integrations.Experience using tools for code analysis, static analysis, and coverage.Knowledge of security, usability, and accessibility best practices is a plus.Preferred Soft Skills :
Proactive, accountable, and self-driven with a strong sense of ownership.Excellent verbal and written communication.Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot across layers.Empathy toward users and product experiencefirst customer mindset.Why Join Us?
Work on cutting-edge technology in ML and AI spaces. Build products that matter, with quality at the core. Collaborate in a culture that values growth, autonomy, and innovation.
(ref : hirist.tech)