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