Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Backbase; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Backbase is seeking a Senior SDET to own quality across web and mobile journeys. You will design test strategies, author automation, and collaborate with Product, UX, and full-stack engineers to shift quality left and scale automation.

You will build Playwright web E2E tests, govern Android/iOS testing, and integrate tests into CI/CD with GitHub Actions, while mentoring teams on modern testing practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as SDET or hands-on QA with automation-first mindset.
• Strong test planning and acceptance-criteria design with Product/UX.
• Experience with Playwright, Espresso, and XCUITest.
• Proficient in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript; Angular SPA and microservices.
• API testing experience with REST tools.
• CI/CD, GitHub Actions/Jenkins; BDD/Gherkin.
• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Device/browser farms like Sauce Labs or BrowserStack.
• Git/GitHub and Jira/Confluence.
• Non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, localization).
• Excellent communication in distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own quality for the domain with test strategy and automation completeness.
• Build and maintain Playwright web E2E tests across real user journeys.
• Govern mobile E2E strategy for Android/iOS with device farms.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Coach engineers on TDD, BDD, contract tests, and shift-left practices.
• Advocate AI-assisted testing and maintain test data strategies.

Skills

Automation-first mindset

Test planning

Playwright

Espresso

XCUITest

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Angular SPA

API testing

CI/CD

BDD/Gherkin

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Device/browser farms

Git/GitHub

Jira/Confluence

Non-functional testing

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Postman

RestAssured

Sauce Labs

BrowserStack

Azure

Jira

Confluence

Confluent

Job description

We are building the Customer Lifetime Orchestrator - an omni-channel marketing and customer engagement platform that helps banks engage end customers and influence financial behaviour.

As Senior SDET, you own quality for this domain together with the engineering team: test strategy, automation completeness, and the team's ability to execute effectively. This is a hands-on test design and automation role - not a downstream QA handoff.

You will partner with Product, UX, and full-stack engineers (web, mobile, backend, AI-assisted features) to shift quality left and scale automation.

Define and execute test strategy and test plans per release (scope, risks, schedule, entry/exit criteria).

Co-author acceptance criteria and Gherkin scenarios with Product; act as quality gatekeeper before releases.

Build and maintain Playwright web E2E tests for real-world customer journeys across engagement channels.

Govern mobile E2E strategy (Android/iOS) with engineers; use device-farm/matrix testing.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD with GitHub Actions (smoke, regression, quality gates).

Manage test environments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

Use Grafana (or similar) to analyse test results and improve feedback loops.

Combine automation with exploratory and manual testing for edge cases; reduce flakiness and improve parallelization.

Coach engineers on TDD, BDD, contract tests, synthetic data, and shift-left practices.

Advocate AI-assisted testing (generation, visual regression, maintenance).

Required

• 5+ years as SDET or hands-on QA with an automation-first mindset.
• Strong test planning and acceptance-criteria design with Product/UX.
• Playwright (web), Espresso (Android), XCUITest (iOS).
• Java and JavaScript/TypeScript; Angular SPA, mobile, microservices.
• API testing (REST, Postman, RestAssured or equivalent).
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), BDD/Gherkin, web and mobile E2E.
• Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Device/browser farms (Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or equivalent).
• Git/GitHub, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, localization).
• Excellent communication in distributed teams (India, Vietnam, Europe).

Nice to have

• Digital banking, martech, or campaign/engagement management.
• Performance testing (k6, Gatling, JMeter).
• SaaS or enterprise software testing experience.
• AI/ML product testing; XRay, CucumberStudio, SonarCloud, security tooling.

What We Offer

• Premium customer-facing platform used by leading banks worldwide.
• Shape quality engineering across web, mobile, backend, and AI orchestration.
• Global, distributed team with core hours in India and overlap with Europe.