Senior SDET Lead - Remote API & QA Governance

Welo Global; United States; Remote; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Limitless Flexibility

Limitless Growth

Limitless Support

Job summary

Welo Data seeks a Lead SDET to provide end-to-end governance across QA layers for a complex onboarding platform. You will own API contract testing architecture and data modeling for traceability, ensuring quality is verified at every layer, not assumed upstream.

Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration are essential. The role focuses on setting standards, quality gates, and coordinating across teams to deliver reliable software with robust evidence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in QA leadership across frontend, middleware, and backend.
• Expertise in API contract testing architecture and governance.
• Practical experience with knowledge graphs or ER data modeling for test/data traceability.
• Strong track record of delivering governance and enforcing quality gates across teams.
• Experience mentoring SDETs and QA Analysts.

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 Ops Associates to align execution with timelines.
• Review test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies.
• Coordinate dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation.
• Act as escalation point for cross-layer discrepancies and evidence-quality issues.
• Compile and quality-check raw technical evidence dossiers from workstreams.
• Identify evidence gaps or rework needs before handoff to clients.
• Report on delivery health, risks, evidence quality, and dependencies.
• Prepare technical evidence package for client handoff.
• Support technical readout with traceability to empirical evidence.

Skills

QA leadership

API contract testing

Data modeling

Cross-functional leadership

SDET mentoring

Quality gates

Job description

Welo Data seeks a Lead SDET to provide end-to-end governance across QA layers for a complex onboarding platform. You will own API contract testing architecture and data modeling for traceability, ensuring quality is verified at every layer, not assumed upstream.

Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration are essential. The role focuses on setting standards, quality gates, and coordinating across teams to deliver reliable software with robust evidence.