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This role owns the architecture of API contract testing and the data modeling of complex entity relationships (e.g., hierarchical/parent-child style structures), while ensuring that quality assumptions made at one layer (such as client-side validation) are independently verified at every downstream layer rather than trusted at face value. The ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with the ability to set and enforce delivery governance across cross-functional teams. \nMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing layers. \nEstablish and enforce QA delivery standards, evidence requirements, review processes, and quality gates. \nReview frontend constraint dictionaries and FSM/state-model outputs for completeness and consistency. \nReview API schema reconstructions, network evidence, and tracer replay outputs for technical quality and traceability. \nCoordinate with QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations Associates to align technical execution with delivery timelines. \nReview test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies. \nCoordinate dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation throughout the engagement. \nAct as the escalation point for cross-layer technical discrepancies and evidence-quality issues. \nCompile and quality-check the raw technical evidence dossiers produced by the workstreams. \nIdentify evidence gaps, inconsistencies, or areas requiring rework before handoff to client stakeholders. \nReport on delivery health, technical risks, evidence quality, dependencies, and unresolved gaps. \nPrepare the technical evidence package for handoff to the client team responsible for final modelling and logic-gap assessment. \nSupport technical readout preparation by ensuring that findings are traceable to empirical evidence. \nProject DetailsTitle: Lead SDET Rate: $17/hr\nStart Date: 19th October\nDuration: 4 Months\nCommitment: 22 Hours per Week\nLocation: India (Remote)\nJob Type: Contractual (with the possibility of a Full-time employment extension based on performance and project needs) \nQUALIFICATIONS:Proven experience of 8+ years in a QA leadership role spanning multiple testing layers (frontend, middleware, backend) \nDemonstrated expertise in API contract testing architecture and governance \nPractical experience with knowledge graph or entity-relationship data modeling and its application to test/data traceability \nStrong understanding of layered system architectures and the importance of independently verifying quality at each layer rather than relying on upstream assumptions \nStrong track record of technical delivery governance, including setting standards and quality gates \nExcellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication skills \nDeep technical grounding across QA disciplines (manual, automation, systems-level testing) to credibly guide teams at every layer \nExperience mentoring or managing SDETs and QA Analysts \nExperience leading complex multi-week technical QA, API validation, or security-assessment engagements is strongly preferred. \nExperience establishing evidence/traceability models across complex technical workflows is preferred. \nFamiliarity with knowledge graphs, entity-relationship models, or structured technical dependency/evidence modeling is preferred; 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