SDET - Java/Python, Playwright, Microservices & CI/CD

Synechron; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking a Quality Engineering Developer (SDET) with 7+ years of experience to join its Quality Engineering team in India. The role focuses on designing scalable QA solutions across UI, API, and distributed layers, automating validation across the SDLC, and improving release readiness.

You will collaborate with developers and architects to embed quality in system design, strengthen observability, and support production excellence across mission-critical platforms.

Qualifications

• Expert-level proficiency in Java or Python, including OOP, data structures, design patterns.
• Hands-on Playwright for UI automation.
• Strong REST API testing experience.
• Experience embedding automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient SQL for backend validation.
• Designing and building scalable automation frameworks.
• Experience with BDD practices.
• Testing distributed microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with performance, load, stress, and resilience testing.
• Ability to use logs, metrics, traces for diagnostics.
• Hands-on with AI/GenAI tools for test design and automation.
• Experience validating AI-generated code and outputs.
• Prominent in prompt engineering and context management.
• Spec-Driven Development alignment of specs, code, validation.
• Experience with Agents, Skills, MCP integrations.
• Ownership of production quality, releases, and incident triage.
• Willingness to support production releases on-call.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, and distributed layers.
• Influence system design for testability, observability, reliability, and release readiness.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD to provide timely feedback.
• Engineer quality solutions for microservices and low-latency systems.
• Develop automated tests using Java/Python, Playwright, REST tools, SQL, and BDD.
• Validate application behavior across functional, integration, performance, and production environments.
• Leverage AI/GenAI tools to accelerate testing and debugging.
• Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy, reliability, and security.
• Manage prompts and context for AI-assisted testing activities.

Skills

Java/Python

Playwright

API Testing

CI/CD

SQL

Automation Frameworks

BDD

Distributed Systems Testing

Performance/Resilience Testing

Observability/Production Diagnostics

AI/GenAI Tools

AI Evaluation

Prompt Engineering/Context Management

Spec-Driven Development

Agents/MCP Integrations

Production Quality Ownership

Production Support (on-call)

Tools

TeamCity

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a Quality Engineering Developer (SDET) with 7+ years of experience to join its engineering-focused Quality Engineering team in India. This role is responsible for designing and building scalable quality engineering solutions across UI, API, integration, event-driven, and distributed system layers. The successful candidate will work closely with developers and architects to build quality into system design, automate validation across the SDLC, strengthen release readiness, and support production excellence. The role contributes to business objectives by improving software reliability, delivery confidence, system observability, and production quality across mission-critical platforms.

Software Requirements (Required and Preferred)

Required

• Java and/or Python: Expert-level proficiency in Java or Python, including object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, and maintainable software engineering practices.
• Playwright: Hands-on experience developing modern UI automation using Playwright.
• API Testing: Strong experience testing REST APIs, microservices, service integrations, and distributed application interfaces.
• CI/CD Platforms: Experience embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub, or equivalent approved platforms.
• SQL: Strong proficiency in SQL for backend data validation, test data management, reconciliation, and database verification.
• Automation Frameworks: Proven experience designing and building scalable automation frameworks from scratch across UI, API, integration, and event-driven layers.
• BDD: Practical experience implementing maintainable Behavior-Driven Development solutions.
• Distributed Systems Testing: Experience validating microservices, event-driven architectures, high-availability systems, and low-latency platforms.
• Performance and Reliability Testing: Experience with performance, load, stress, and resilience testing.
• Observability and Production Diagnostics: Ability to use logs, metrics, traces, and production telemetry to investigate issues and guide quality strategy.
• AI/GenAI Tools: Hands-on experience using AI or GenAI tools for test design, automation development, debugging, and quality engineering workflows.
• AI Evaluation: Experience validating AI-generated code, test cases, automation, and technical outputs.
• Prompt Engineering and Context Management: Practical experience creating effective prompts and managing context for AI-assisted engineering activities.
• Spec-Driven Development (SDD): Proven experience aligning specifications, implementation, and validation through Spec-Driven Development practices.
• Agents, Skills, and MCP Integrations: Experience using or developing Agents, Skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
• Production Quality Ownership: Experience with release certification, regression strategy, production validation, incident triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Production Support: Willingness to support production releases, including participation in on-call rotations.

Preferred

• Perfecto: Exposure to or experience with mobile and web application testing using Perfecto.
• Agentic Engineering: Understanding of agentic approaches applied to software development or quality engineering.
• JMeter: Experience with performance, load, or stress testing using JMeter.
• Advanced AI-Assisted QE: Experience embedding AI-assisted quality engineering workflows safely into CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud and Platform Tools: Exposure to cloud-based environments, observability platforms, containerized systems, or distributed application infrastructure.
• Test Reporting and Quality Analytics: Experience with automated test reporting, quality dashboards, release metrics, and engineering productivity measures.

Overall Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, event-driven, and distributed system layers.
• Act as a quality engineering architect by influencing system design, testability, observability, reliability, and release readiness.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to provide timely and actionable feedback throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Engineer quality solutions for microservices, event-driven architectures, high-availability platforms, and low-latency systems.
• Develop maintainable automated tests using Java and/or Python, Playwright, REST API tools, SQL, BDD practices, and appropriate testing frameworks.
• Validate application behavior across functional, integration, regression, performance, load, stress, resilience, and production environments.
• Use AI and GenAI tools to accelerate test design, automation development, debugging, test analysis, and quality engineering activities.
• Evaluate AI-generated code, tests, prompts, and technical outputs to confirm accuracy, reliability, maintainability, security, and suitability for use.
• Apply prompt engineering, context management, responsibl