Technical Lead - Automation

Mobileum; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mobileum is hiring a Technical Lead – SDET to own the architecture and delivery of test automation for our telecom products. This hands-on leadership role involves coding, framework design, setting automation standards, and mentoring SDETs while collaborating with development and DevOps teams.

The role emphasizes engineering-grade testing, CI/CD integration, and shifting-left with fast, reliable feedback. Strong Java/Python, API testing, and performance expertise are required.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in CS/EC/Equiv. with strong software testing mindset.
• Proven experience building and leading SDET programs and test automation frameworks.
• Hands-on coding in Java and/or Python; API testing expertise essential.

Responsibilities

• Own automation architecture and delivery for telecom products; mentor SDETs.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates for continuous delivery.
• Define performance tests and SLAs; perform bottleneck analysis and tuning.

Skills

Java

Python

API testing

CI/CD

Test frameworks

Debugging

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

BE/B.Tech or MSc in CS/EE

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Postman

RestAssured

JUnit/TestNG

JMeter/Gatling/k6/Locust

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Join Mobileum Team

At Mobileum we recognize that our team is the main reason for our success. What does work with us mean? Opportunities!

Role: Technical Lead – SDET (Test Automation)

Reports To: Director – Quality & Automation Engineering

About the Job:

We are hiring Technical Leads – SDET to own the architecture and delivery of test automation for Mobileum's telecom products. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role: you will write code, design frameworks, set automation standards, and mentor a team of SDETs while partnering closely with development and DevOps.

SDET here means engineering‑grade quality: you build the frameworks and utilities others rely on, embed testing into CI/CD, and treat tests as durable engineering assets — not brittle scripts

CI/CD & Shift-Left

• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates for continuous delivery.
• Champion shift-left testing and fast, reliable feedback loops.
• Reduce flakiness and regression cycle time (including AI-assisted prioritization where useful)

Performance Engineering (primary focus for one of the two seats).

• Design and execute load, stress, soak, spike, and scalability tests using JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust.
• Define performance benchmarks, SLAs/SLOs, and capacity models for high-throughput telecom workloads.
• Perform bottleneck analysis and profiling across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers using APM/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).

Collaboration & Quality Analysis

• Partner with developers, DevOps, and telecom architects to build testability into design.
• Analyze pre-production and production issues; close test gaps and improve coverage.
• Translate roaming/telecom-specific logic into robust automated validation.

Desired Profile: -

Programming & Frameworks

• Strong coding in Java and/or Python (TypeScript/JS a plus).
• API testing: RestAssured, Postman; contract testing.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI; Git‑based workflows.
• Test architecture, design patterns, and framework maintainability.
• Docker/Kubernetes exposure for test environments (OpenShift a plus).

Performance Engineering (required for the perf-focused seat, desirable for both)

• Load tooling: JMeter, Gatling, k6, Locust.
• APM & profiling: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace/New Relic; bottleneck analysis and capacity planning.

Telecom Domain

• Familiarity with telecom/roaming data and protocols (GTP, Diameter, SS7, SIP).
• Exposure to CDR/SDR/TAP validation and 4G/5G core concepts a strong plus.

Technical skills

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and set automation strategy
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving in distributed systems
• Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration
• For the performance seat: demonstrable experience owning performance testing for high‑scale systems

Good to have

• Big data / distributed systems testing (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• OpenShift/Kubernetes and cloud‑native testing experience.
• AI‑assisted testing / self‑healing automation exposure.
• Roaming analytics or telecom product QE background.

Work Experience:

8–12 years in test automation/SDET roles with demonstrated framework design and technical leadership

Educational Qualification:

BE. / B.Tech., M.E./M.Tech. or M. Sc. in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering / MCA