Principal SDET

Role overview

Principal SDET at TAAZAA

Responsibilities

• You will partner closely with developers, product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to ensure quality is built into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• Design & Build Scalable Automation Frameworks Design, build, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Playwright and modern automation practices.
• Implement API contract, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Develop mobile automation solutions using Appium across real devices and emulators/simulators.
• Analyze performance trends and identify system bottlenecks before they impact customers.
• Ensure applications meet reliability, scalability, and availability standards.
• Drive AI-Powered Testing Innovation Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted testing tools and workflows.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve product quality and delivery speed.
• You'll work on impactful projects across diverse industries while helping shape the future of quality engineering at Taazaa.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Good to Have Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native testing environments.

Employment details

• Location: Noida [UP] [India]

About the employer

• Working at Taazaa involves engaging with cutting-edge technology and innovative software solutions in a collaborative environment.
• What You'll Get in Return Joining Taazaa Tech means thriving in a dynamic and innovative environment with competitive compensation and performance-based incentives.
• Welcome to Taazaa, where we sculpt the future with passion, purpose, and boundless creativity.

Benefits

• We offer clear career advancement opportunities, comprehensive health benefits, and engaging team-building initiatives.

Additional role details

• We're looking for a Principal SDET Engineer to join our Development team in Noida.
• We emphasize continuous professional growth through workshops, certifications, and hands-on learning opportunities.
• Our employees collaborate closely with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions across diverse industries.
• We promote work-life balance through flexible work arrangements while fostering a supportive, inclusive, and innovation-driven culture.
• As a Principal SDET, you will play a pivotal role in elevating quality engineering across our Web, API, and Mobile products.
• You will serve as a technical authority within our engineering organization, driving quality strategy, automation excellence, and engineering best practices.
• This is a principal-level individual contributor role that combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership through influence, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Success in this role means enabling teams to deliver reliable, scalable, high-performing products that consistently earn customer trust.
• What You'll Do Drive Quality Engineering Strategy Own and drive the end-to-end test automation strategy across Web, API, and Mobile platforms.
• Establish and champion a clear quality vision across products and engineering teams.
• Proactively identify functional risks, integration gaps, performance bottlenecks, and automation coverage gaps.
• Establish automation standards for test architecture, reusability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Define best practices for test design patterns, data management, environment readiness, and execution strategies.
• Automate Web, API & Mobile Testing Build and maintain comprehensive automation suites covering Web, API, and Mobile applications.
• Performance & Reliability Engineering Design and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability testing using tools such as k6 and JMeter.
• CI/CD & Release Quality Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Define and maintain quality gates, deployment validation processes, and release readiness criteria.
• Build automated reporting mechanisms that provide actionable quality insights.
• Lead Through Influence & Mentorship Champion a shift-left quality culture across engineering teams.
• Mentor developers and engineers on testing principles, testability, automation best practices, and observability.
• Influence product and technical design decisions by advocating for quality, reliability, and scalability from the earliest stages of development.
• Leverage AI to accelerate test creation, maintenance, failure analysis, and automation coverage.
• Drive innovation initiatives that improve testing efficiency and product quality.
• Quality Metrics & Continuous Improvement Establish and monitor quality KPIs including coverage, defect escape rates, flakiness, pipeline reliability, and release quality.
• Use data-driven insights to continuously improve testing effectiveness and engineering processes.
• Your Qualifications Bachelor's (B.E./B.Tech.) or Master's (MCA) degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Skill Sets / Experience We Require 8–11 years of experience in QA Automation, SDET, or Quality Engineering roles.
• Proven experience as a senior or principal-level individual contributor driving automation and quality strategy.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus).
• Deep hands-on expertise with Playwright as a primary automation framework.
• Extensive experience in Web, API, and Mobile automation testing.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable automation frameworks from scratch.
• Mobile automation expertise using Appium across real devices and emulators/simulators.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as k6 or JMeter.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD implementation using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Experience working with Docker, containerized environments, and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience leveraging AI-driven testing tools and automation solutions.
• Strong understanding of test architecture, parallel execution, reporting, quality gates, and automation scalability.
• Exceptional debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to identify quality, performance, and reliability risks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working within Agile development environments and cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of security testing tools and best practices.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms.
• Familiarity with contract testing and service virtualization.
• Contributions to quality engineering communities, open-source projects, or technical publications.
• You'll have ample opportunities for professional growth through workshops, certifications, and leadership opportunities while enjoying a flexible work-life balance.
• Our collaborative culture encourages creativity, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Who We Are Taazaa Tech is a kaleidoscope of innovation, where every idea is a brushstroke on the canvas of tomorrow.
• It's a symphony of talent, where creativity dances with technology to orchestrate solutions beyond imagination.
• In this vibrant ecosystem, challenges are sparks igniting the flames of innovation, propelling us towards new horizons.