Skillz

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable UI, API, backend, and integration test automation frameworks.
  • Set automation direction, mentor SDETs, and drive technical execution.
  • Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, optimize pipelines, and establish release quality gates.
  • Improve test environment reliability, test data management, and flaky-test reduction.
  • Perform load, stress, scalability, and performance bottleneck analysis.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams on reliability, deployment stability, and observability.
  • Use AI tools and LLM-based systems for test design, test creation, failure analysis, debugging, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software quality engineering experience, including automation direction, SDET mentoring, and technical execution.
  • Strong hands-on experience building scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, backend, and integration testing.
  • Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, including test integration, pipeline optimization, and release gating.
  • Strong understanding of cloud environments, containers, microservices, service dependencies, and test environments.
  • Experience ensuring environment stability through test environment reliability, test data management, and flaky-test reduction.
  • Strong background in performance testing, including load, stress, scalability testing, and bottleneck analysis.
  • Experience collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams to improve reliability, deployment stability, and observability.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based systems for testing and debugging workflows.
  • Experience applying AI-driven approaches to log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.

Benefits

  • The role requires working from the Bangalore office three days per week.
  • Skillz is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and nondiscriminatory workplace.

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About Skillz

201-500 employees

Skillz builds a mobile esports platform that lets developers add real-money, skill-based tournaments to their games. Its SDK provides matchmaking, payments, identity, and fraud controls, and the company monetizes through entry fees and revenue sharing from hosted competitions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Skillz is a public company listed on the NYSE and BMV.

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