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Job Description — Backend SDET

Experience: 4 Years | Role Type: Individual Contributor

About the Role

We are looking for a sharp and proactive Backend SDET to join our engineering team. You will wn quality and reliability for our backend microservices ecosystem — designing, building, and scaling automation frameworks that catch issues early and ship confidence fast.

Key Responsibilities

1. Microservice Testing — Design and execute comprehensive test strategies (functional, contract, integration, and end-to-end) for backend microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.

2. Automation Engineering — Build and maintain robust, scalable automation frameworks for backend services using modern testing tools and languages.

3. AI-Augmented Testing — Leverage AI/ML tools to enhance test generation, anomaly detection, log analysis, and intelligent test coverage recommendations.

4. Reliability & Quality — Define and track quality metrics (flakiness rate, test coverage, MTTR); contribute to SLO/SLA validation and chaos/fault-injection testing.

5. CI/CD Integration — Embed automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation across environments.

6. Observability — Partner with engineering teams to improve logging, tracing, and alerting strategies that support faster defect detection.

7. Shift-Left Testing — Collaborate with developers during design and code review phases to catch defects upstream.

Must-Have Skills

• 4 years of hands-on experience in backend testing / SDET roles

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go

• Proven experience testing RESTAPIs, gRPC services, and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

• Hands-on with automation tools such as pytest, RestAssured, Postman/Newman, or similar

• Experience with contract testing (e.g., Pact) and service virtualization / mocking

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)

• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

Good to Have

• Experience using AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, test generation via LLMs) to accelerate test development

• Exposure to performance/load testing tools (Locust, k6, Gatling)

• Knowledge of chaos engineering principles (Chaos Monkey, Gremlin)

• Understanding of distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry)

What We Value

• Quality-first mindset with a bias for automation over manual effort

• Ownership of reliability — you treat production quality as your responsibility

• Clear communicator who can bridge the gap between QA, Dev, and DevOps teams

• Curiosity to explore new tools, including AI, to solve testing challenges smarter

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.