SDET & Quality Engineering Lead

Sdet & Quality Engineering Lead

Responsibilities

• Own the test automation strategy and governance:
• define a shift-left test strategy covering unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, security, and resiliency testing.
• establish quality gates including defects, coverage, flakiness budgets, and performance service-level objectives, along with release criteria.
• implement a shift-left testing model ensuring traceability from requirements to tests, results, and evidence.
• Architect and develop reusable testing frameworks and internal developer tools:
• enhance product code testability through dependency injection, mocks, instrumentation, logging, trace IDs, and resilience hooks.
• provide libraries and utilities for API, messaging, database, and contract testing.
• standardize test data management with deterministic fixtures and support parallel and ephemeral test execution patterns.
• Event-driven architecture (EDA) testing:
• develop automated contract-validation tools and contribute to code ensuring schema evolution and compatibility in event-driven architecture testing.
• assert ordering, idempotency, message delivery semantics, replay, dead-letter queue handling, and key deduplication.
• prove back-pressure, throttling, and consumer lag under bursty loads; perform chaos testing on broker clusters.
• enforce schema and contract gates in CI/CD pipelines to prevent changes before promotion.
• Pipelines, environments & observability:
• embed test suites into Azure DevOps (build -> deploy -> smoke -> regression -> perf) with mandatory gates (coverage, static analysis, compliance, and performance).
• Orchestrate tests on AKS with Docker and ephemeral environments.
• Validate trace IDs across services; validate Application Insights and Dynatrace signals in assertions.
• Performance:
• baselines latency/throughput; run JMeter/LoadRunner for spike/soak/failover; collaborate on capacity tuning

Skills

• Must have
• 8+ years of experience as a SDET
• Proven delivery of pipeline-integrated .NET automation frameworks and regulated-market audits.
• Deep hands-on experience with messaging systems (Solace, Kafka, or RabbitMQ) and distributed system testing
• Proven ability to build test frameworks and CI/CD quality gates for event-driven architectures
• Performance and load testing experience (JMeter, LoadRunner, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
• Strong C#
• Financial services or trading platform experience preferred
• Nice to have
• FIX conformance via QuickFIX/N simulators; schema registry tooling
• ISTQB Advanced/CSTE, Azure Fundamentals / Azure DevOps Engineer
• Finance certs (CFA/FRM), Agile/Scrum experience