Lead SDET

Location: Hyderabd/Gurugram

Experience: 7-13 years

Employment Type: Full time

About the Role

Ideal Candidate Profile

- 7+ years of experience in SDET, Test Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or Automation Engineering.
- Proven experience building mock services, simulators, and test data generation frameworks .
- Strong AWS automation and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise.
- Strong hands-on Playwright automation experience for UI and end-to-end testing.
- Experience creating and managing ephemeral cloud environments for testing.
- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and CI/CD practices.

Key Responsibilities Service Virtualization, Simulators & Mock Data

- Design and implement service virtualizations, mocks, stubs, and simulators for third-party APIs and dependencies.
- Create configurable mock services that simulate:
- Success and failure scenarios
- Timeouts and latency
- Rate limiting
- Authentication failures
- Edge-case behaviors
- Create and maintain realistic synthetic/mock test data for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
- Develop automated test data generation frameworks that support various test scenarios and environments.
- Ensure mock services and test data remain aligned with production contracts and third-party API specifications.
- Maintain reusable test environments and dependency simulators for multiple product teams.

Cloud Test Environment Automation

- Provision AWS infrastructure dynamically for test execution.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using:
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CDK
- Automate creation and teardown of:
- VPCs
- ECS/EKS clusters
- Lambda functions
- API Gateway
- Databases (RDS/DynamoDB)
- S3 resources
- Build ephemeral environments that can be spun up on demand and automatically destroyed after test completion.




- Optimize AWS utilization and testing costs.

UI, API & End-to-End Automation

- Develop and maintain automated test using Playwright .
- Create robust UI, API, and end-to-end test suites that run against dynamically provisioned environments.
- Integrate Playwright automation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate validation of mocked third-party services through UI and API workflows.
- Support regression, integration, and smoke testing across multiple environments.

Test Automation Platform

- Integrate environment provisioning into CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop frameworks for:
- End-to-end testing
- Integration testing
- Contract testing
- Performance testing
- Enable parallel test execution across multiple feature branches.
- Build self-service testing capabilities for engineering teams.

DevOps & Observability

- Monitor test environments and test infrastructure health.
- Automate logging, tracing, and diagnostics.
- Troubleshoot environment, infrastructure, and dependency failures.
- Improve test reliability, scalability, and execution speed.

Required Skills Programming & Automation

- Strong experience in Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
- Experience building scalable test frameworks and automation platforms.

Playwright Expertise

- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
- UI, API, and end-to-end automation using Playwright.
- Cross-browser testing (Chrome, Edge, Firefox).
- CI/CD integration of Playwright test suites.

Service Virtualization & Mocking

- WireMock
- MockServer
- Hoverfly
- Mountebank
- Pact
- Service virtualization concepts
- Test data generation and management

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

- IAM
- ECS/EKS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- S3
- DynamoDB
- RDS
- CloudWatch
- Step Functions

Infrastructure as Code

- Terraform (preferred)
- AWS CDK
- CloudFormation

DevOps & Containerization

- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins

Regards -Sanjay Bhatt

📌 Software Engineer in Test (Hyderabad)
🏢 Incedo
📍 Hyderabad