Lead Engineer
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America8 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end quality engineering for product teams using an automation-first approach.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable UI, API, integration, and mobile automation frameworks using Java.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, establish quality gates, and improve release confidence and execution speed.
- Develop functional, regression, integration, and risk-based test strategies from requirements and architecture changes.
- Drive shift-left quality, root cause analysis, defect prevention, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor SDETs and quality engineers on automation architecture, coding standards, debugging, and quality engineering practices.
- Provide quality metrics, release-readiness insights, and stakeholder reporting aligned with enterprise and regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with engineers, review technical solutions, improve testability, and contribute to engineering work when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Technology or Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or MCA.
- 8+ years of experience in SDET, test automation, or quality engineering roles within product or platform teams.
- Strong Java programming skills and experience building or scaling UI and API automation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Selenium, Rest Assured, Postman, and CI/CD-integrated test automation.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, test design, SQL/database validation, and troubleshooting across application and service layers.
- Experience working in Agile teams with tools such as JIRA.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, mentoring, test strategy, regression optimization, and defect analysis skills.
- Insurance domain knowledge and mobile automation experience are preferred.
- ISTQB, Scrum, SAFe, or cloud/devops certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- The position can be based in Chennai or Gurgaon.