Who We Are
Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs is the engineering hub of Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s #1 telecom brand. We build the digital products that millions of customers across Europe use every day. AI‑first by design, we don't just adopt new technology, we build with it.
- #1 most valuable telecom brand in the world, and #11 across all brands (Brand Finance Global 500, 2026)
- Top 100 in the Fortune Global 500 (#72 in 2025)
- EUR 119 billion Group revenue in 2025
- 273 million+ mobile customers in 50+ countries
Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
Senior SDET
ICB Hub
Who We Are
Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs is the engineering hub of Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s #1 telecom brand. We build the digital products that millions of customers across Europe use every day. AI‑first by design, we don't just adopt new technology, we build with it.
- #1 most valuable telecom brand in the world, and #11 across all brands (Brand Finance Global 500, 2026)
- Top 100 in the Fortune Global 500 (#72 in 2025)
- EUR 119 billion Group revenue in 2025
- 273 million+ mobile customers in 50+ countries
You Will Be Part Of Deutsche Telekom
- #1 most valuable telecom brand in the world, and #11 across all brands (Brand Finance Global 500, 2026)
- Top 100 in the Fortune Global 500 (#72 in 2025)
- EUR 119 billion Group revenue in 2025
- 273 million+ mobile customers in 50+ countries
About The Team
ICB Hub is part of DTDL's AI product portfolio, building on Deutsche Telekom's scale to ship real products for real customers.
YOU ASK WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? WE SAY,
- AI tools, on us — Every engineer ships with AI. Coding agents, token budgets and hackfests to build what's next.
- Grow faster — Free Coursera & Udemy access, certifications and internal mobility across teams.
- Time to recharge — Uncapped leaves, birthday leave, flexible hours, and sabbatical options.
- Family first — 9 months maternity on full pay, 15 days paternity, crèche support, infertility treatment and adoption leave.
- Health & wellness — Medical cover up to ₹15L for you and your family, unlimited free doctor consults, 24/7 counselling and free Cult.fit membership.
- Money & everyday — Flexi benefits for car, fuel and books. Free meals and snacks on campus. Monthly phone and broadband allowance, plus relocation support when you need it.
What exactly is the objective of this role?
We're looking for a Senior SDET to join ICB Hub. This role suits someone with around 6 to 8 years of relevant experience.
What will be my Key Responsibilities?
- 6 to 8 years of relevant experience
- Design and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, system, regression, smoke, negative, and exploratory tests.
- Develop and maintain automated tests using tools such as Playwright, Robot Framework, and other modern automation technologies.
- Build reusable test frameworks, libraries, test data, and utilities for UI, API, workflow, and network-service validation.
- Test complete customer journeys across products such as IP Transit, IP Peering, EVPN, MPLS, and Business Connect.
- Think beyond happy-path scenarios and identify failure conditions involving routing, resiliency, redundancy, failover, service activation, configuration consistency, and operational recovery.
- Validate APIs, service orders, workflow orchestration, network configurations, events, callbacks, and integrations with downstream systems.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support quality gates for reliable product releases.
- Investigate failures, perform root-cause analysis, document defects clearly, and work with development teams through resolution.
- Use AI-assisted testing techniques to generate test scenarios, identify coverage gaps, create automation code, analyse failures, and accelerate test maintenance.
- Contribute to test strategy, quality metrics, risk assessment, release readiness, and continuous improvement of the QA process.
- Hands‑on expertise in Significant experience as a Test Engineer
- Strong hands‑on experience with test automation using Playwright
- Hands‑on expertise in Robot Framework, Selenium, Cypress
Functional understanding of telecom/IP networking products and concepts
- Hands‑on expertise in including:
- IP Transit and IP Peering
- EVPN and MPLS
- Business Connect and enterprise connectivity services
- L2 and L3 VPN services.
- Hands‑on expertise in BGP, VLANs, interfaces, redundancy, resiliency, failover.
Ability to translate telecom business requirements into clear
- Hands‑on expertise in traceable
- Hands‑on expertise in and risk‑based test scenarios.
Strong defect analysis
- Hands‑on expertise in troubleshooting
- Hands‑on expertise in communication
- Hands‑on expertise in and documentation skills.
Demonstrated use of AI tools or AI-assisted techniques to improve testing
- Hands‑on expertise in automation development
- Hands‑on expertise in test design
- Hands‑on expertise in or failure analysis.
What will be nice to have?
- Familiarity with Experience with network automation, service orchestration, OSS/BSS, TM Forum APIs, or telecom fulfillment systems.
- Experience testing cloud-native or microservices-based applications deployed on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Knowledge of Kafka or other event-streaming platforms and asynchronous service validation.
- Experience with API tools such as Postman, Bruno, REST Assured, or similar tools.
- Exposure to Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or another programming language used for test automation.
- Familiarity with network test tools, virtual routers, traffic simulation, configuration validation, or lab automation.
- Experience defining quality dashboards, test KPIs, automation coverage, and and release quality gates.
- Experience with contract testing, chaos testing, or security testing.
Why This Role?
- Build digital products from scratch on modern, cloud-native infrastructure.
- A real mandate to run lean and AI‑first — not lip service, but how we actually operate.
- Influence at both ends — hands‑on enough to matter in the detail, senior enough to shape strategy.
- A fast, agile culture where releases ship quickly and your judgment drives the roadmap.
WITH THE RIGHT TEAM, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
If you're looking for an environment that's fun and friendly but incredibly fast‑paced; a place where we measure the time between releases in days; a place where our focus begins and ends at the consumer, we'd love to have you!