SDET Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA engineers, ensuring high performance, accountability, and continuous growth.
• Drive a culture of ownership, agility, and excellence through mentorship, technical guidance, and structured feedback.
• Advocate for Shift-left and automation-first principles.
• Align team goals with organizational OKRs and ensure timely delivery of quality milestones throughout the year.
• Be a hands-on contributor in test automation, performance testing, infrastructure automation, and test data management.
• Guide the team in building and maintaining robust automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure testability, security, and reliability are embedded from the start.
• Define and track key quality metrics (e. g., defect leakage, automation coverage, test velocity) to drive continuous improvement.
• Use dashboards and analytics to monitor team performance and product readiness.
• Provide timely, transparent updates to Directors and stakeholders, managing expectations and highlighting risks proactively.
• Contribute to SRE practices such as chaos engineering, progressive rollouts, and incident response planning.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies to ensure end-to-end observability and system health.
• Develop and maintain playbooks for disaster recovery, on-call rotations, and post-mortem analysis.
• Manage test environments, infrastructure, and data provisioning to support comprehensive testing.
• Champion modern testing methodologies, including shift-left, blue/green deployments, and feature flag testing.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve test efficiency and coverage.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software testing, with a strong focus on automation, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
• Proven experience in leading QA teams and delivering complex technical solutions in agile environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS and infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong programming skills in Java, with proficiency in Gradle, JUnit, TestNG, and Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in UI, API, and backend automation, including CLI-based testing and performance/load testing.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and expectation-setting skills.