Senior Manager, SDET

About the role :

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of SDETs focused on Web, Mobile, and API test automation.
• Drive the adoption of quality engineering best practices across engineering teams, including shift-left testing, code quality gates, and automation-first approaches.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in development, product, design, security, and DevOps to define quality strategies, goals, and roadmaps.
• Oversee planning and execution of various testing strategies—unit, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and performance—for key product areas.
• Architect, build, and evolve scalable, reusable automation frameworks and tools to accelerate testing velocity and improve coverage.
• Champion continuous integration and delivery practices by embedding automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and production monitoring workflows.
• Own quality KPIs and drive accountability through data-driven reporting and analysis (e.g., escaped defect rates, test coverage, MTTR).
• Ensure availability, stability, and scalability of test environments, data, and pipelines and ontribute to talent acquisition, onboarding, career development, and retention of
• SDETs; foster an inclusive, engaged team culture.
• Act as a strategic quality leader and representative for one or more key product domains or enterprise programs.
• Serve as a strong voice for the customer—balancing speed with quality, and advocating for proactive defect prevention.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field—or
• equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering or quality engineering,
• Including 5+ years in a technical leadership role managing QA/SDET teams and proven track record mentoring and growing engineers and managers in large,
• matrixed organizations.
• Deep expertise in test automation across UI (Web/Mobile), API, and backend layers using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, JUnit/TestNG, RestAssured, and Postman.
• Strong software development experience in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• Demonstrated success building or scaling test automation frameworks in modern development environments.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Strong understanding of performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling), and ability to interpret results.
• Solid grasp of testing pyramid principles, risk-based testing, mocking, service virtualization, and test data management.

Preferred:

• Experience in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred) including services like Lambda, EKS, CloudFront, etc.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Datadog) to enable production validation and quality signals.
• Experience working in regulated environments such as FinTech, including compliance,

auditing, and security validation.

• Understanding of contract testing, chaos engineering, and modern reliability practices.