SDET

Swimlane is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software QA Engineer (SDET) to join our team in Hyderabad, India. As we expand our operations, we aim to maintain our leadership by ensuring our solutions operate with the utmost efficiency and quality. In this role, you will define and execute test strategies to uphold the high standards of our high-volume, highly distributed, low-code security automation applications. The ideal candidate will have a proven trackrecord of consistently exceeding expectations and delivering top-quality software. If you are self-motivated, intellectually curious, collaborative, and driven to push boundaries, Swimlane is the place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership and a strong quality mindset throughout the product development process.
• Operate in an agile environment to assess project readiness, influence testability, and ensure robust test development, system reliability, performance, and quality.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Developers, QA, and other technology experts to define test plans, strategies, and approaches for complex enterprise applications.
• Drive projects to completion by creating robust quality plans, managing risks, enhancing test coverage, and integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous quality and early defect detection.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of automated test frameworks and scripts for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Conduct performance and security testing to ensure applications meet scalability and security standards.
• Advocate for end-users by ensuring their needs and concerns are addressed, and interact with customers to enhance understanding of their use cases.
• Mentor QA team members in implementing effective QA strategies, promoting best practices in risk management, automation, and testing.
• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in software testing and QA, aiming to improve testing processes and enhance the engineering team's overall efficiency and delivery effectiveness.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Extensive experience with creating and executing software QA plans for complex, high-volume, event-based systems, especially those involving hundreds to thousands of transactions per day.
• Experience in reviewing product requirements, architecture, and design principles to improve application behavior and system performance.
• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing types, including system, integration, scale, HA, and reliability.
• Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Java.
• Familiarity with setting up and managing test environments on cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS.
• Strong understanding of QA, CICD and DevOps methodologies and tools, especially related to AWS.
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Datadog, and Prometheus.
• Proficiency with automation tools/frameworks such as TestNG, Junit, Cypress, Karate, Playwright, and JMeter.
• Proven record of strong leadership, communication, team development, problem-solving, and organization skills.
• Self-starter, self-managed individual who can work independently and quickly adjust to changing priorities.
• Business and technical background in cybersecurity and security automation/orchestration is a strong plus.

Skills

aws, cloud, java, qa, sdet, software testing