Senior QA/SDET Specialist

Hero Fincorp Ltd.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hero FinCorp Group is building HomeVerse, India’s first fully digital home ownership ecosystem. We are seeking a Senior QA/SDET Specialist to own a modern quality engineering capability across web, mobile, backend, APIs, and data-driven workflows.

The role requires a hands-on engineer who can define test strategy, build automation frameworks, improve release confidence, and embed quality into the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, automation, or SDET roles, with substantial hands-on ownership.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern UI automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO; Playwright experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong API and integration testing experience using REST and event-driven systems, with tools and frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Pact, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of test architecture, test pyramid principles, contract testing, mocks, stubs, and test data management.
• Experience testing distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, third-party integrations, and failure/recovery scenarios.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database validation for end-to-end testing.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers on production-quality issues.
• Demonstrated ability to establish quality standards and influence engineering practices rather than operating as a downstream manual testing function.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, mobile applications, and critical user journeys.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks with strong emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and execution speed.
• Own functional, regression, integration, API, end-to-end, and where relevant performance and security testing approaches.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and establish clear release readiness and defect triage standards.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and shift quality practices left in the development lifecycle.
• Develop reusable test utilities, test data strategies, mocks, service virtualization, and environment management practices.
• Analyze flaky tests, production defects, and escaped issues to identify systemic root causes and improve engineering quality.
• Define meaningful quality metrics covering defect leakage, automation effectiveness, release stability, test coverage, and execution health.
• Review requirements and technical designs for testability, edge cases, failure modes, and non-functional risks.
• Mentor QA engineers and help establish consistent quality engineering standards across the team.

Skills

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

WebdriverIO

API testing

CI/CD automation

SQL

Root cause analysis

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Pact

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Appium

Job description

Hero FinCorp Group is building HomeVerse, India’s first fully digital home ownership ecosystem. We are building a high-quality technology organization with strong engineering foundations, modern architecture, and a product mindset focused on speed, reliability, and scale.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA/SDET Specialist to build and own a modern quality engineering capability across web, mobile, backend, APIs, and data-driven workflows. The role requires a hands-on engineer who can define test strategy, build automation frameworks, improve release confidence, and embed quality into the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, mobile applications, and critical user journeys.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks with strong emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and execution speed.
• Own functional, regression, integration, API, end-to-end, and where relevant performance and security testing approaches.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and establish clear release readiness and defect triage standards.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and shift quality practices left in the development lifecycle.
• Develop reusable test utilities, test data strategies, mocks, service virtualization, and environment management practices.
• Analyze flaky tests, production defects, and escaped issues to identify systemic root causes and improve engineering quality.
• Define meaningful quality metrics covering defect leakage, automation effectiveness, release stability, test coverage, and execution health.
• Review requirements and technical designs for testability, edge cases, failure modes, and non-functional risks.
• Mentor QA engineers and help establish consistent quality engineering standards across the team.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, automation, or SDET roles, with substantial hands-on ownership.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern UI automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO; Playwright experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong API and integration testing experience using REST and event-driven systems, with tools and frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Pact, or equivalent. 1
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of test architecture, test pyramid principles, contract testing, mocks, stubs, and test data management.
• Experience testing distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, third-party integrations, and failure/recovery scenarios.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database validation for end-to-end testing.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers on production-quality issues.
• Demonstrated ability to establish quality standards and influence engineering practices rather than operating as a downstream manual testing function.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with performance testing using k6, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent.
• Experience with mobile automation using Appium, Detox, Espresso, or XCUITest.
• Experience testing cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience in fintech, lending, payments, or other transaction-heavy and regulated products.
• Experience with observability tools and production monitoring to support quality validation and incident analysis.

What This Role Offers

The opportunity to establish a modern quality engineering culture, build automation capabilities from first principles, and materially improve the speed and confidence with which the organization ships software