IND Lead Software Engineer - GCC026
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Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff SDET to join our Premium Audit transformation team in Hyderabad, India. In this role, you will architect, implement, and scale automated testing for the Premium Audit platform spanning UI, API, data, and workflow layers. You’ll enable high‑velocity delivery by building robust automation frameworks (Playwright, REST Assured), integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Ops to ensure releases are secure, reliable, and performant. You’ll also mentor SDETs across the GCC pod model and champion contemporary test strategies (shift‑left, contract testing, observability‑driven validation) that align to our Premium Audit transformation.

Key Responsibilities




- Define end‑to‑end test strategy (UI, API, data, performance, security) and own the test automation architecture for Premium Audit services and front‑ends.
- Build and maintain Playwright UI suites and REST Assured API frameworks; standardize patterns, utilities, fixtures, and test data management for reuse across teams.
- Drive contract tests for REST services, mock/virtualize dependencies where needed, and verify integration flows across event‑driven services and rules/triage engines.
- Embed smoke, regression, and non‑functional checks into automated CI/CD pipelines (gating, parallelization, flaky‑test management, artifacting) to ensure predictable, fast feedback.
- Use SQL to validate audit data transformations, reconcile service responses to source of truth, and codify data‑quality assertions in automation suites.
- Incorporate Premium Audit domain rules (documents, exposures, triage paths) into

📌 Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 The Hartford
📍 Hyderabad