Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Role Overview
The Senior SDET role drives engineering-led quality by improving product reliability, scalability, performance, and release confidence.
The role contributes to customer experience and product stability through automation practices and proactive quality ownership.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the Role
The Senior SDET role drives engineering-led quality by improving product reliability, scalability, performance, and release confidence.
The role contributes to customer experience and product stability through automation practices and proactive quality ownership.
What You Will Own
- Enhance test automation coverage and strengthen CI/CD quality gates.
- Reduce manual QA effort, production defects, release risk, and engineering rework.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA teams to build scalable quality processes.
- Continuously improve engineering efficiency and support faster, more predictable releases.
Experience and Technical Qualifications
- Five or more years of software quality engineering experience is required.
- Experience building scalable UI, API, and backend test automation frameworks is required.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins or GitHub Actions, test integration, pipeline optimization, and release gating is required.
- Experience with cloud environments, containers, microservices, service dependencies, and test environments is required.
- Experience with test environment reliability, test data management, and flaky test reduction is required.
- Performance testing experience covering load, stress, scalability, and bottleneck analysis is required.
- Experience collaborating with DevOps or SRE teams on reliability, deployment stability, and observability is required.
AI and Automation Skills
- Hands-on experience with Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or other LLM-based systems is required.
- Use AI tools to improve test design, automate test creation, analyze failures, and accelerate debugging.
- Apply AI-driven approaches to log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.
Work Arrangement
- The role requires working from the Bangalore office three days per week.
About Skillz
Skillz operates a mobile eSports platform that hosts mobile gaming tournaments and supports developers and players worldwide.
The company describes a diverse workforce and equal opportunity employment practices.
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