Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Huron Consulting Group Inc.; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan with employer match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Huron Consulting Group is seeking a Senior SDET to lead test automation, strategy and framework architecture within the product engineering team in India. You will work alongside developers, product managers and designers in Agile delivery, driving quality across UI and API workflows and leveraging AI-assisted testing and agentic testing approaches.

The role emphasizes scalable automation using Selenium/Playwright/Cypress, REST Assured, and data validation in PostgreSQL, with CI/CD integration

Qualifications

• 4–7 years in software quality engineering with focus on test automation
• Production‑quality automation code in C#, Java, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Proficiency with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress and API testing tools

Responsibilities

• Define and own test strategy, framework architecture and tooling roadmap
• Translate requirements into traceable test cases; review test plans
• Develop AI-assisted testing approaches and agentic test workflows
• Architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI/API
• Write SQL queries to validate backend data and build data‑driven tests

Skills

CI/CD

QA lifecycle

Agile/Iterative delivery

Communication

Performance engineering

Observability

AWS cloud

Education

B.E./B.Tech. in CS / MIS

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Postman

SoapUI

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

BrowserStack

SQL (PostgreSQL)

DBeaver

Job description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organisations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes. Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centres are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change. You’ll help our clients to achieve organisational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long‑term sustainability. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. Huron is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Senior SDET) to join its product engineering team. You will own the test automation strategy and framework architecture, ensuring reliability and accuracy across complex application workflows. Embedded in Agile delivery teams alongside developers, product managers and designers, you bring a software engineering mindset to quality problems and set the quality bar the whole team works toward.

Primary responsibilities

Test strategy and technical leadership

• Define and own the test strategy, framework architecture and tooling roadmap for assigned product areas.
• Translate business requirements into traceable test cases across functional, regression, integration and end‑to‑end dimensions; lead test plan reviews with developers, product owners and project managers.
• Define test coverage metrics and quality gates; produce risk‑based release readiness reports for engineering leadership at each milestone.

Test automation and AI‑assisted engineering

• AI‑assisted development: Leverage GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and comparable AI coding assistants to accelerate test script authorship, generate edge‑case scenarios and perform intelligent code review.
• AI agentic testing: Configure and evaluate agentic workflows for autonomous test generation and self‑healing locators; apply Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents to test tools, APIs and data sources for end‑to‑end agentic test workflows; define system instructions, skills and tool configurations for AI coding agents.
• Architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright or Cypress for UI; REST Assured or similar for APIs; integrate into CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Write complex SQL queries to validate backend data integrity in PostgreSQL (using DBeaver); build data‑driven test suites for parallel and cross‑browser execution.

Defect management, collaboration and mentorship

• Isolate, document and track defects in Azure DevOps; lead exploratory testing sessions and root‑cause analysis on escaped defects.
• Serve as quality engineering lead across Agile delivery teams; participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand‑ups and retrospectives.
• Conduct code reviews and coach developers and team members on shift‑left testing practices and quality engineering standards.

Required qualifications

Core

• B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science, MIS or related discipline; 4 to 7 years in software quality engineering with the majority in test automation and framework development on a commercial product.
• Production‑quality automation code in C#, Java, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript; proficiency with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress; API testing with REST Assured, Postman or SoapUI.
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins); strong Git skills; cross‑browser testing with BrowserStack or equivalent; solid SQL skills for database validation.
• Deep understanding of QA lifecycle and Agile/Iterative delivery; clear communicator able to produce test strategies and quality summaries for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with performance engineering, scalability design and observability practices (logging, metrics, distributed tracing) in production systems.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch and related cloud‑native tooling.

AI and agentic development tools

• Practical daily use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor) to write, refactor and review test code; proven ability to craft effective prompts and system instructions.
• Solid understanding of AI agents, skills and tool‑calling; familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) – ability to connect AI models to internal tools, APIs and test infrastructure for multi‑step agentic workflows; working knowledge of an LLM API or orchestration framework (Anthropic API, LangChain or similar) is a strong plus.

Preferred qualifications

• Performance and/or security testing (JMeter, k6, OWASP ZAP); TDD/BDD methodologies (Cucumber, Reqnroll); containerised test environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript; familiarity with Visual Studio and the Microsoft development ecosystem; ISTQB certification or equivalent credential.
• Knowledge of AWS services (SNS, S3, EC2, Lambda etc.) is an advantage; familiarity with cloud‑based test environment provisioning and infrastructure as code.

Position Level Associate Country India

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron. Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage to employees and dependants; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous paid time off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Our Wellness Program supports employee total well‑being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work and on‑site workshops, as well as ongoing programmes recognising major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

All benefits and programmes are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, colour, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business.

We endeavour to maintain a drug‑free workplace.