Lead SDET (Playwright Automation) with 10yrs exp

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About The Role
This role is about going beyond traditional QA, you'll be a hands‑on leader who builds frameworks, improves testing approaches, and ensures fast, reliable releases with minimal bug leakage. You'll influence architecture, enable shift‑left testing practices, and motivate the team to innovate in how we approach product quality.

We're looking for a Lead SDET who can not only drive technical quality initiatives but also set examples for the team, mentor peers, and ensure product excellence across performance, scalability, and automation.

Responsibilities

Lead Quality Initiatives: Set quality standards and best practices across UI, API, performance, and scalability testing

Framework Development: Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks for UI and API testing

Code & Architecture Reviews: Conduct code reviews for junior engineers, guide them in understanding the impact of code changes, and enforce scalable automation patterns

Shift-Left Testing: Drive early quality practices by embedding testing in the design and development phase; ensure automation catches bugs as early as possible

Performance & Scalability: Partner with product and engineering teams to validate scalability, performance, and infrastructure-level quality

Micro front‑end & DB Expertise: Provide technical quality insights on micro‑frontend architecture and databases (MongoDB, Firebase, etc.)

Mentorship: Inspire, mentor, and guide the QA/SDET team to continuously improve their technical skills and testing mindset

Innovation in Testing: Encourage new approaches beyond traditional testing methods, focusing on efficiency, faster delivery, and minimal bug leakage

Cross‑Team Collaboration: Work with developers, PMs, DevOps, and product stakeholders to ensure quality is owned across the product lifecycle

RCA: Drive RCA for all prod issues and plug the defect leakage gaps

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software testing and automation, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role

Proven experience building and scaling automation frameworks for both UI and API

Strong coding skills in languages commonly used for test automation (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java)

Solid understanding of performance, scalability, and infrastructure testing

Hands‑on experience with micro‑frontend architectures and databases like MongoDB and Firebase

Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring team members

Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automation for continuous testing

Proven experience managing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large‑scale applications. Ability to influence product architecture and design with a quality‑first mindset

Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team

Customer‑first approach: ensuring quality translates to real‑world reliability and user experience

Experience in developing tools which helped QA org to improve the productivity

Skills: test automation, automation framework, rca, sdet, infrastructure testing

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