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SDET Engineer - Chennai
Photon Interactive
Full-timeOn-site
Location:IndiaType:Full-timePosted:2w ago
- Designs, builds, and maintains scalable, reusable automated test frameworks across UI, API, integration, and (where applicable) performance testing for their product area.
- Treats test automation as production-quality code: writes maintainable, well-architected, peer-reviewed test code and advocates for the same from others.
- Partners with engineering and DevOps to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast, reliable, repeatable releases.
- Drives shift-left testing practices within their team — influencing design and development to build in testability and quality from the start.
- Reduces manual testing burden by expanding automation coverage and improving test execution efficiency.
- Defines and monitors quality metrics (coverage, defect trends, flaky test rates, release readiness) for their area and reports on them to engineering leads.
- Leads root cause analysis for escaped defects within their scope and implements automated safeguards to prevent recurrence.
- Establishes test data management and environment readiness practices for their team or platform.
- Mentors and provides technical guidance to junior and mid-level SDETs, including code reviews and pairing.
- Collaborates with Architecture, Security, and SRE to ensure test coverage extends to non-functional requirements (performance, security, resiliency).
- Influences engineering design decisions on their team to improve testability and long-term maintainability.
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