Senior SDET Engineer: Lead API & UI Automation

NTT DATA North America; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 107,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

NTT DATA North America in Westlake, Texas, seeks a Sr. SDET Engineer to design, implement and maintain automated testing frameworks for web apps and APIs. You will work onsite with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality across SDLC using Playwright, RestAssured, Karate, and TestNG.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD integration, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and strong SQL skills. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Design automation solutions for functional, integration, regression, API, UI, and end-to-end testing to improve test coverage and release quality.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams to understand requirements and ensure quality throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives using Jira.
• Design and implement automated API testing solutions using RestAssured, Karate, and other modern testing frameworks.
• Leverage Azure or AWS cloud platforms to support testing activities in cloud-native and distributed environments.
• Create and maintain detailed test documentation, test reports, automation architecture documents, and quality metrics.
• Lead end-to-end test management activities, including test planning, estimation, execution, defect tracking, reporting, and release validation.
• Integrate automated test-suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and SonarQube.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases for web applications, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Lead end-to-end test management activities, including test planning, estimation, execution, defect tracking, reporting, and release validation.
• Develop and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java, Spring Boot, RestAssured, Playwright, Karate, Cucumber, and TestNG.
• Design automation solutions for functional, integration, regression, API, UI, and end-to-end testing to improve test coverage and release quality.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams to understand requirements and ensure quality throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives using Jira.
• Design and implement automated API testing solutions using RestAssured, Karate, and other modern testing frameworks.
• Integrate automated test-suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and SonarQube.
• Leverage Azure or AWS cloud platforms to support testing activities in cloud-native and distributed environments.
• Create and maintain detailed test documentation, test reports, automation architecture documents, and quality metrics.

Skills

Agile development

Test management

API testing

Automation framework design

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Playwright

RestAssured

Karate

Cucumber

TestNG

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

SonarQube

Job description

NTT DATA North America in Westlake, Texas, seeks a Sr. SDET Engineer to design, implement and maintain automated testing frameworks for web apps and APIs. You will work onsite with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality across SDLC using Playwright, RestAssured, Karate, and TestNG.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD integration, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and strong SQL skills. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.