Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior SDET to design, scale, and maintain our mobile application automated testing infrastructure. In this role, you will focus heavily on mobile UI automation and backend API validation. You will treat test automation as production-quality code, ensuring high execution reliability and seamless integration into development pipelines, while leveraging AI-powered platforms to accelerate script development and optimize test execution.
Core Responsibilities
Mobile Test Architecture: Designs, builds, and maintains scalable, reusable automated test frameworks specifically for mobile applications utilizing Appium as the primary automation engine.
API Testing Integration: Engineers robust automated validation for backend API services interacting with mobile front-ends to ensure seamless data contract adherence.
AI-Assisted Automation: Leverages enterprise generative AI platforms and coding assistants to accelerate automation scripting, generate synthetic test data, and optimize test workflows.
Intelligent Test Execution:



Utilizes AI-driven test analysis platforms to identify flaky scripts, analyze execution failures, and implement self-healing capabilities within the mobile framework.
Production-Quality Code: Writes highly maintainable, well-architected, peer-reviewed test code using Java or JavaScript/TypeScript, promoting coding best practices across the team.
CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Partners with Engineering and DevOps to integrate automated mobile and API test suites into CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable releases.
Shift-Left Advocacy: Drives shift-left testing practices, influencing engineering design decisions early to maximize application testability and long-term maintainability.
Quality Metrics Leadership: Defines and monitors quality metrics (test coverage, defect trends, flaky test rates, and release readiness) and reports insights to engineering leads.
Test Data Management: Establishes robust test data managemen

📌 SDET Engineer (India)
🏢 Photon
📍 India