Skillz

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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11 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and backend testing.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, optimize pipeline efficiency, and establish release gates.
  • Improve test environment reliability through environment management, test data practices, and flaky test reduction.
  • Lead load, stress, scalability, and performance testing and help resolve identified bottlenecks.
  • Debug complex failures across distributed systems, lead root cause analysis, and prevent recurring issues.
  • Use Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based tools to improve test design, generate tests, analyze failures, and accelerate debugging.
  • Apply AI- and ML-assisted techniques to log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.
  • Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to improve observability, deployment stability, and service reliability.
  • Mentor SDET and QA engineers and guide testing practices across teams.
  • Apply functional, regression, system, and end-to-end testing fundamentals.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of software quality engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
  • Hands-on experience building scalable UI, API, and backend test automation frameworks, including Appium.
  • Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including test integration, optimization, and release gating.
  • Understanding of cloud environments, containers, microservices, service dependencies, and test environments.
  • Experience with test environment stability, test data management, and flaky test reduction.
  • Strong background in load, stress, scalability, and performance testing and bottleneck analysis.
  • Experience collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams on reliability, deployment stability, and observability.
  • Hands-on experience using Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based systems for test design, test creation, failure analysis, and debugging.
  • Experience applying AI-driven methods to log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection.
  • Ability to work from the Bangalore office four days per week.

Benefits

  • Work from the Bangalore office four days per week.
  • Skillz is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity and nondiscrimination.

Tech Stack

AppiumGitHub ActionsJenkins

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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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