SDET Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Lead SDET with 7+ years of experience to drive test strategy and automation across multiple projects. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, influence SDLC decisions, and ensure release quality through scalable testing.

The role requires hands‑on coding in Java, TypeScript and Python, plus experience with Selenium, Cucumber, Postman, and CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of related work experience.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment.
• A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity.
• An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across technology teams optimizing the use of a shared framework where appropriate.
• Impact higher-risk aspects, set priorities, review requirements, and determine scope and limitations of testing initiatives.
• Guide best-practices, standardization of processes, approaches and methodologies for multiple QA testing services.
• Lead test case creation plans and facilitate reviews/inspections/approvals of test automation.
• Lead the documentation of defects, build and execute test plans, help debug and diagnose issues.
• Influence the Software Development Life Cycle process through collaboration with Infra and DevOps teams.
• Promote and maintain solid technical relationships with QA Engineers and developers.
• Communicate, audit, review, and summarize reports, meeting standards and best practices.
• Help engage around estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Python

NodeJS

Mocha

Cucumber

Selenium

Postman

Jenkins

Harness

JIRA

Xray

qTest

Allure Reports

Tools

NodeJS

Mocha

Cucumber

Selenium

Postman

Insomnia

Jenkins

Harness

Job description

Lead SDET

Experience: 07+years

Location: Bengaluru, India

Job Summary

What You'll Do:

QA Engineer

• Collaborate across technology teams optimizing the use of a shared framework where appropriate
• Impact higher-risk aspects, set priorities, review requirements, and determine scope and limitations of testing initiatives
• Guide best-practices, standardization of processes, approaches and methodologies for multiple QA testing services, i.e.: SOA, unit, integration, functional, regression, acceptance, system, load, performance, smoke tests, and defect management
• Lead test case creation plans and facilitate reviews/inspections/approvals of test automation for continuous process improvement and reduction of product defects
• Lead the documentation of defects, build and execute test plans, help debug and diagnose difficult to complex code issues in selected environments
• Influence the Software Development Life Cycle process through collaboration with Infrastructure, Development Operations and development teams
• Promote and maintain solid technical relationships with QA Engineers and developers
• Communicate, audit, review, and summarize reports, meeting standards and following best practices
• Help engage around the estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects and their budget allocations
• You will be expected to stay up to date with emerging technologies so you can make informed recommendations

• Minimum 7 years of related work experience
• Comfortable working in an agile environment
• A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity, consistently driving excellence in all endeavors
• An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and ensures every team member feels a sense of belonging

• Programming Languages: Java, TypeScript, Python
• Test Automation Frameworks: NodeJS, Mocha, Cucumber
• UI Test Automation Tools: Selenium
• API Test Automation: Postman, Insomnia
• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Harness
• Test Management / Reporting: JIRA, Xray, qTest, Allure Reports
• Leverages automation and AIassisted testing techniques to accelerate test creation, execution, and defect analysis while ensuring high quality and reliability