# SDET Engineer - API Automation - Chennai

SDET Engineer Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled SDET Engineer with strong expertise in API testing, automation framework development, integration testing, and quality engineering practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of APIs and backend services across enterprise applications. This role requires close collaboration with development, product, and business teams to deliver robust and scalable solutions while driving test automation throughout the software development lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Lead and drive API Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and End-to-End (E2E) validation across multiple applications and platforms. Design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, Cucumber, TestNG/JUnit, or equivalent frameworks. Create and execute automated API test suites covering functional, integration, regression, and negative test scenarios. Validate RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend services including request/response verification, schema validation, authentication, authorization, and error handling. Perform service-level testing using tools such

- **Id**: 3570244
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/photon-sdet-engineer-api-automation-chennai>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T11:58:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:20:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3946
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 3186451
- **Name**: Photon
- **Domain**: photon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/photon-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 56
- **Open postings**: 710
- **Ghost share**: 0.824
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 6500
- **Max usd**: 17000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 35

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **JUnit** — Optional: no
- **Kibana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Swagger** — Optional: no
- **TestNG** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **JMeter** — Optional: yes
- **k6** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **Playwright** — Optional: yes
- **Selenium** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T15:56:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 57
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.63
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:6, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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