Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Senior SDET owning the quality strategy for backend systems: designing and running chaos, failure, and performance test frameworks for distributed infrastructure, managing Kubernetes test environments, and building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Core stack is Python, Groovy, Kubernetes, and chaos/load-testing tooling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong programming skills in Python for test automation, tooling, and scripting
- Proficiency in Groovy, particularly for Jenkins pipeline development (scripted and declarative)
- Extensive hands-on Jenkins experience: pipeline authoring, plugin management, shared libraries, CI/CD architecture
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge: deploying workloads, managing namespaces, configuring resource limits, operating test clusters
- Proven chaos engineering experience: fault injection, resilience testing, tools such as Chaos Monkey, Litmus, or Gremlin
- Hands-on performance testing: load generation, profiling, bottleneck analysis, tooling (e.g., Locust, k6, Gatling, JMeter)
- Experience designing failure test scenarios for distributed systems: partial outages, dependency failures, data-path degradation
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals
Nice to have
- Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) for traffic shaping and fault injection
- Familiarity with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetry
- Background in SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, incident post-mortems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure testing on AWS, GCP, or Azure at the platform level
- Exposure to eBPF-based tools for low-level system observability
Full description
About
the Role**
We are seeking a Senior SDET Engineer with deep
expertise in infrastructure reliability, chaos engineering, and performance
testing. You will own the quality strategy for our backend systems — designing
and executing test frameworks that stress our infrastructure to its limits before
our users ever do. You will work closely with platform, SRE, and backend
engineering teams to embed quality thinking at every layer of our stack.
Key
Responsibilities**
- Lead
the design and implementation of chaos, failure, and performance test
frameworks targeting distributed backend systems and infrastructure.
- Build
and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins using Groovy-based DSL and
scripted/declarative pipeline definitions.
- Own
infrastructure-level test environments using Kubernetes — spinning up, tearing
down, and managing test clusters for reliability experiments.
- Execute
and automate chaos engineering scenarios: network partitions, node failures,
pod evictions, resource exhaustion, and latency injection.
- Design
and run performance and load tests to identify bottlenecks, regressions, and
capacity limits across services.
- Develop
failure testing strategies to validate system behavior under degraded
conditions — partial failures, cascading failures, and data corruption
scenarios.
- Define
quality metrics and SLOs for infrastructure reliability; report on test
coverage and failure patterns to engineering leadership.
- Mentor
and guide junior QA engineers; champion a reliability-first quality culture
across the engineering org.
Requirements
Required
Qualifications**
- Strong
programming skills in Python for test automation, tooling, and scripting.
- Proficiency
in Groovy, particularly for Jenkins pipeline development (scripted and
declarative).
- Extensive
hands-on Jenkins experience — pipeline authoring, plugin management, shared