About Gradera
Gradera defines a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ - where software orchestrates human expertise, digital workers, and enterprise systems to deliver governed outcomes at scale. As an AI Native Services firm, we help enterprises redesign how work gets done across operations, product, engineering, customer experience, data, and enterprise workflows to move beyond fragmented AI pilots and disconnected automation toward measurable business outcomes.

Role Overview
We are seeking a hands-on, cooperative Lead SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to drive the UI automation strategy, framework architecture, and continuous improvement of our frontend quality practices. As Lead UI SDET, you will provide technical leadership and guidance to the UI test automation team, ensuring robust, maintainable, and effective Playwright-based test suites for our modern web applications. This is a cross-functional leadership role focused on UI quality, maintainability, and efficiency.
Our core UI test automation stack includes:




- Playwright (primary UI automation framework)
- TypeScript (primary language for test development)
- Jest (for unit testing and test utilities)
- Docker and Kubernetes (for containerized test environments)
- GitHub Actions (for CI/CD)
- Karate (for E2E API Testing)

Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the UI SDET/QA engineering team
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of Playwright-based UI automation frameworks
- Architect and enforce the use of the Page Object Model (POM) and data-driven testing paradigms for UI automation
- Design and own comprehensive test plans in partnership with Product Owners to align testing strategies and automation scripts with BDD delivery practices
- Ensure UI test suites are maintainable, reliable, efficient, and scalable
- Drive adoption of best practices for reducing flakiness, increasing speed, and ensu

📌 Lead SDET (Hyderabad)
🏢 Gradera
📍 Hyderabad