Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA/SDET Specialist to build and own a modern quality engineering capability across web, mobile, backend, APIs, and data-driven workflows. The role requires a hands-on engineer who can define test strategy, build automation frameworks, improve release confidence, and embed quality into the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, mobile applications, and critical user journeys.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks with strong emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and execution speed.
- Own functional, regression, integration, API, end-to-end, and where relevant performance and security testing approaches.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and establish transparent release readiness and defect triage standards.
- Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and DevOps teams to identify risks early and shift quality practices left in the development lifecycle.




- Develop reusable test utilities, test data strategies, mocks, service virtualization, and environment management practices.
- Analyze flaky tests, production defects, and escaped issues to identify systemic root causes and improve engineering quality.
- Define meaningful quality metrics covering defect leakage, automation effectiveness, release stability, test coverage, and execution health.
- Review requirements and technical designs for testability, edge cases, failure modes, and non-functional risks.
- Mentor QA engineers and help establish consistent quality engineering standards across the team.

Required Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, automation, or SDET roles, with substantial hands-on ownership.
- Strong programming ability in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a comparable modern language used to build maintainable automation frameworks.
- Deep hands-on

📌 Senior QA/SDET Specialist (Gurugram)
🏢 Hero FinCorp
📍 Gurugram