SDET-I Automation

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs Rs ie INR 8-20 LPA)

Min Experience: 2 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

Requirements

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain automation suites across mobile (Flutter & React Native), web, and API platforms.
• Define and implement test strategies covering regression, smoke, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Build scalable testing frameworks—component, integration, and E2E—aligned with a shift-left testing approach.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions) with defined quality gates.
• Create robust API and event-driven tests for Go-based microservices and Kafka pipelines, including consumers, producers, retries, DLQs, and idempotency checks.
• Set up and execute mobile UI automation on real or virtual devices via BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab, or internal device farms.
• Implement contract testing frameworks (such as Pact) and utilize Testcontainers/LocalStack for deterministic integration testing across Kafka, Postgres, Redis, S3, and more.
• Add performance, reliability, and basic security testing using tools like k6/Locust and OWASP-aligned checks.
• Validate data workflows involving DynamoDB and Postgres.
• Use GenAI to assist in generating test cases and skeleton test code, creating synthetic test data, analyzing flaky failures, and strengthening requirement-to-test coverage mapping.
• Leverage logging, metrics, and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) to improve observability and debugging.
• Drive improvements to test stability, reducing flakiness and improving mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Promote QA best practices through code reviews, CI enhancements, and release processes while supporting developers in writing testable code.

Must-Have Skills

• Proficiency in at least one programming language: TypeScript, Java, Python, or Go.
• Strong experience with web UI automation using Playwright (preferred) or Cypress.
• Expertise in API automation (Playwright API, Newman, REST Assured).
• Hands-on experience in mobile test automation using Appium (including Flutter), Detox for React Native, or Maestro.
• Familiarity with backend validation: testing Go-based services, SQL for Postgres, basic DynamoDB knowledge, and Redis checks.
• Understanding of Kafka event-driven system testing, including ordering, idempotency, and consumer lag.
• Experience with Docker, Testcontainers, and WireMock for environment simulation and mock testing.
• CI/CD experience with Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, including test parallelization and artifact/version management.
• Practical use of GenAI tools (OpenAI API, Copilot, etc.) for generating tests, data, and summarizing failures with strong privacy and PII awareness.
• Solid grounding in QA fundamentals—deterministic tests, stable waits, test data management, and coverage planning.

Nice to Have

• Contract testing experience (Pact), performance testing (k6), and basic security testing (SAST/DAST pipelines).
• Exposure to AWS services (ECS, MSK, S3, CloudWatch), feature flagging, and canary testing.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry traces for validating distributed systems.
• Experience in PCI-DSS or fintech environments.

Success Metrics

• Achieve 80% automation coverage of critical user flows across mobile, web, and APIs within the first 90 days.
• Maintain flaky test rate below 2%, with automated retries and root-cause insights.
• Ensure CI pipelines enforce strict quality gates (coverage, performance checks, and critical E2E tests).
• Maintain clear traceability from requirements to test cases and production issues, showing continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of hands-on experience in QA automation across mobile, web, and backend systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.