- Senior SDET: 5+ years of relevant experience
- Lead SDET: 7+ years of relevant experience
- Clear progression in roles held with demonstrated ownership
- Experience leading 3+ engineers
- Responsible for code reviews, onboarding, mentoring, and engineering standards
- Active hands-on contributor, not purely managerial
- Test Automation Framework Expertise
- Designed, built, or maintained automation frameworks
- Able to explain:
- Framework architecture and layers
- Configuration management
- Reporting mechanisms
- User adoption and maintenance approach
- Regular code contributions, commits, and pull requests
- Domain Experience
- Experience in one or more of:
- Banking / Financial Services
- SAP / ERP
- Retail
- Transportation / Logistics
- Other enterprise-grade, integration-heavy applications
- Exposure to complex integrations and data-intensive systems
- Experience creating:
- Synthetic test data
- Test data factories
- Reusable test datasets
- Knowledge of:
- Database setup/teardown
- Isolated test states
- Test Stability & Reliability
- Experience identifying and reducing flaky tests
- Use of:
- Trace viewers
- Logs
- DOM snapshots
- Debugging tools
- Defined strategies for test isolation
- Working knowledge of:
- OWASP Top 10
- API security testing
- ZAP
- SAST
- DAST
- Experience integrating security checks into CI/CD pipelines
- Mobile Automation (If Applicable)
- Experience with:
- Appium
- Equivalent mobile automation frameworks
- Service Virtualization & Mocking
- Experience with:
- WireMock
- Mountebank
- Similar stubbing tools
- Ability to simulate unavailable or unstable dependencies
- AI-Assisted Testing
- Hands-on usage of GenAI for:
- Test case design
- Test data generation
- Defect analysis
- Understanding of limitations, risks, and review requirements
- ERP / SAP Automation (If Applicable)
- Experience with:
- SAP GUI Automation
- SAP Fiori Automation
- Tosca or equivalent tools
- Metrics & Impact
Candidate should demonstrate measurable outcomes such as:
- Reduced execution time
- Increased automation coverage
- Lower defect leakage
- Reduced flaky test percentage
- Faster release cycles
- Resume & Career Validation
- Tools and technologies should align with project experience
- No keyword stuffing
- Dates, roles, and responsibilities should be consistent
- Reasonable explanations for job changes
- Probe frequent short tenures
- Certifications & Learning
- Preferred:
- ISTQB
- Cloud Certifications (AWS/Azure)
- Vendor Certifications
- Evidence of continuous learning and recent training
- Community & Technical Presence
- GitHub contributions (if available)
- Technical blogs/articles
- Conference talks or knowledge-sharing sessions
- Demonstrates code quality and engineering best practices
- Communication & Stakeholder Skills
- Explains technical concepts clearly and simply
- Provides direct answers with supporting examples
- Demonstrates analytical thinking and asks relevant questions