Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, event-driven, microservices, and distributed system layers.
- Influence system design, testability, observability, reliability, release readiness, and quality architecture.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Java or Python, Playwright, REST API tools, SQL, BDD, and testing frameworks.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, performance, load, stress, resilience, and production validation testing.
- Use logs, metrics, traces, and production telemetry to investigate failures, identify quality risks, and guide testing priorities.
- Use and evaluate AI/GenAI tools and outputs for test design, automation, debugging, and quality engineering workflows.
- Apply prompt engineering, context management, responsible AI practices, Spec-Driven Development, and Agents, Skills, and MCP integrations.
- Own release certification, regression strategy, production validation, incident triage, root-cause analysis, documentation, and on-call production support.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, product teams, operations, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and improve delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional experience in software engineering, SDET, quality engineering, automation engineering, reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Expert-level Java and/or Python proficiency with object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, and maintainable software practices.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, REST API and microservices testing, SQL, scalable automation frameworks, BDD, and CI/CD quality gates.
- Experience testing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, high-availability platforms, and low-latency systems.
- Experience with performance, load, stress, resilience, regression, integration, and production validation testing.
- Experience with TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub or equivalent CI/CD platforms, and Git or equivalent source control practices.
- Experience using AI/GenAI tools, evaluating AI-generated code and tests, prompt engineering, context management, Spec-Driven Development, Agents, Skills, and MCP integrations.
- Experience with release certification, incident triage, root-cause analysis, production support, and on-call rotations.
- Preferred qualifications include JMeter, Perfecto, cloud and containerized environments, observability platforms, quality dashboards, security testing, certifications, and financial services or other mission-critical domain experience.
Benefits
- Flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development programs are offered.
- The position is based in India.
- Synechron is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
About Synechron
At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our Synechron Labs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,000+, and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets. For more information on the company, please visit our website:www.synechron.com.