Senior Software Engineer -SDET
First American Financial Corporation3 days ago
Remote, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead quality for projects or feature areas by defining test strategy, scope, exit criteria, and risk-based test plans.
- Review requirements, designs, and application code to identify risks, testability gaps, and effective testing approaches.
- Validate end-to-end workflows and system integration points.
- Design and maintain test automation, tools, and supporting utilities.
- Own CI/CD quality gates covering smoke, regression, and integration testing.
- Investigate complex issues using logs, monitoring, and environments while partnering with Engineering and SRE on root-cause analysis.
- Perform mid-scale load testing, analyze results, and implement performance improvements where applicable.
- Incorporate reliability, performance, and security testing into broader test strategies.
- Track quality metrics including defects, coverage, and stability, and communicate risks and release readiness.
- Oversee junior team members' test-plan execution, review test artifacts and code, and provide mentorship.
- Use approved AI tools to support testing and automation while validating outputs.
- Provide feedback on release schedules, quality, and stability, including work outside normal hours when business needs require it.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5–7 years of software or test engineering experience.
- Strong understanding of software engineering practices, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
- Experience defining and executing risk-based testing strategies and designing scalable, maintainable test automation.
- Experience with debugging, root-cause analysis, end-to-end workflow validation, and system integration testing.
- Familiarity with reliability, performance, and security testing approaches.
- Ability to use quality metrics to drive decisions and improvements.
- Experience reviewing code, influencing testability and design decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and improving team testing practices.
- Effective communication of quality status, risks, and recommendations.
- Practical experience using AI tools to enhance testing and evaluate outputs.
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About First American Financial Corporation
First American Financial Corporation provides title insurance, closing/settlement services, and real-estate risk and property data products to lenders, agents, homebuyers/sellers, and commercial property firms. It also offers valuation services, mortgage subservicing, and home warranties, monetizing through insurance premiums and fee-based transactions and data licensing. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Santa Ana, California, First American is a Fortune 500 public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker FAF.