Remote Lead SDET: API Testing & Quality Governance

Welocalize India Llp; United States; Remote; USD 26,174,000 - 31,685,000; Part time

Job summary

Welocalize India Llp seeks a Lead SDET to provide end-to-end technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing for a complex onboarding platform. You will own API contract testing architecture and data modeling of entity relationships, ensuring quality assumptions are independently verified at every layer.

The role demands strong technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to enforce delivery standards and quality gates across teams, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a QA leadership role spanning frontend, middleware, backend
• Expertise in API contract testing architecture and governance
• Experience with knowledge-graph or ER data modeling for test/data traceability
• Ability to enforce delivery governance and quality gates across teams

Responsibilities

• Provide technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing layers.
• Establish and enforce QA delivery standards, evidence requirements, review processes, and quality gates.
• Review frontend constraint dictionaries and FSM/state-model outputs for completeness and consistency.
• Review API schema reconstructions, network evidence, and tracer replay outputs for quality and traceability.
• Coordinate with QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations Associates to align technical execution with timelines.
• Review test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies.
• Coordinate dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation.
• Escalate cross-layer technical discrepancies and evidence-quality issues.
• Compile and quality-check the raw technical evidence dossiers produced by workstreams.
• Identify evidence gaps, inconsistencies, or areas requiring rework before handoff to clients.
• Report on delivery health, technical risks, evidence quality, dependencies, and unresolved gaps.
• Prepare the technical evidence package for handoff to client-team responsible for modelling and gap assessment.
• Support technical readout preparation by ensuring findings are traceable to empirical evidence

Skills

QA leadership

API contract testing

Knowledge graph modeling

Evidence & traceability

Cross-functional leadership

Test orchestration

SDET mentoring

Job description

Welocalize India Llp seeks a Lead SDET to provide end-to-end technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing for a complex onboarding platform. You will own API contract testing architecture and data modeling of entity relationships, ensuring quality assumptions are independently verified at every layer.

The role demands strong technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to enforce delivery standards and quality gates across teams, with a focus on