# Lead SDET – (India)

**Company**: Welo Data
**Location**: India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to provide end-to-end technical governance across all QA layers - frontend, middleware, and backend - for a complex, multi-layered onboarding platform.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with the ability to set and enforce delivery governance across cross-functional teams.

Main 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 technical quality and traceability

- Coordinate with QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations Associates to align technical execution with delivery timelines

- Review test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies

- Coordinate dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation throughout the engagement

- Act as the escalation point for cross-layer technical discrepancies and evidence-quality issues

- Compile and quality-check the raw technical evidence dossiers produced by the workstreams

- Identify evidence gaps, inconsistencies, or areas requiring rework before handoff to client stakeholders

- Report on delivery health, technical risks, evidence quality, dependencies, and unresolved gaps

- Prepare the technical evidence package for handoff to the client team responsible for final modelling and logic-gap assessment

- Support technical readout preparation by ensuring that findings are traceable to empirical evidence

Project Details:

- Title: Lead SDET

- Start Date: 26th October

- Duration: 4 Months

- Location: India (Remote)

- Job Type: Contractual (with the possibility of a Full-time employment extension based on performance and project needs)

Qualifications:

- Proven experience of 8+ years in a QA leadership role spanning multiple testing layers (frontend, middleware, backend)

- Demonstrated expertise in API contract testing architecture and governance

- Practical experience with knowledge graph or entity-relationship data modeling and its application to test/data traceability

- Strong understanding of layered system architectures and the importance of independently verifying quality at each layer rather than relying on upstream assumptions

- Strong track record of technical delivery governance, including setting standards and quality gates

- Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication skills

- Deep technical grounding across QA disciplines (manual, automation, systems-level testing) to credibly guide teams at every layer

- Experience mentoring or managing SDETs and QA Analysts

- Experience leading complex multi-week technical QA, API validation, or security-assessment engagements is strongly preferred

- Experience establishing evidence/traceability models across complex technical workflows is preferred

- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, entity-relationship models, or structured technical dependency/evidence modeling is preferred; deep knowledge-graph engineering expertise is not required

- Ability to synthesize technical evidence into concise stakeholder-ready findings and handoff materials

## Skills

### Required
- API contract testing
- knowledge graph
- entity-relationship data modeling
- QA leadership
- technical delivery governance

### Nice to have
- complex multi-week technical QA
- API validation
- security-assessment engagements
- evidence/traceability models

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