Test Lead (SDET)

Test Lead (SDET)

Location: Dearborn, MI, 48120 - 2 days onsite in a week

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Description:
Support designing and constructing engineering team test strategies that leverage Enterprise Testing frameworks.
Establish, lead, and continuously refine the test automation strategy specifically for client s applications and integrated financial products, ensuring rigorous quality standards aligned with business goals, regulatory requirements, and audit needs.
Define and implement comprehensive test automation standards, best practices, and guidelines tailored for testing complex, high-transaction financial systems.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, robust automated test suites covering the whole application stack including UI (Web and Desktop applications), APIs, and Microservices.
Develop and expand advanced test automation frameworks, modernizing them to align with DevOps principles and cloud-native architectures.
Contribute to and review code in critical, core, and complex components and frameworks.

Skills Required:
- Expertise in standard software testing methodologies, such as unit, component, integration, end-to-end, code reviews, regression, penetration, performance, and design documentation.

Skills Preferred:
- Knowledge of performance testing concepts and tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner) for high-volume transaction systems.
- Knowledge of Current Market Trends about the Automation tools and Frameworks, specifically in FinTech.

Experience Required:
- Min of 5+ years of SDET Experience
- Min of 5+ years of Test Automation Engineering
- 8+ years of experience in creating automation frameworks and tools to support test automation
- 8+ years of experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and quality engineering technologies
- 8+ years of experience in one or more programming languages: JAVA, Python, TypeScript, with proven ability to build robust, maintainable automation frameworks and scripts for complex financial applications.
- Must have hands-on Experience in Developing Automation Scripts for UI using frameworks/tools like Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Playwright, or Cypress.
Experience with BDD frameworks, such as Cucumber, is required. (Experience with tools like Tosca is also valuable, but focus on code-based automation skills.)
- Must have strong experience in API Automation using tools/frameworks like Postman, SoapUI, or Rest Assured, specifically for testing APIs, web services, and microservices that interface with or extend the financial platform
- Extensive experience with database testing and advanced SQL scripting for data validation, test data management, and verifying transaction outcomes within relational databases.
Exposure to MySQL, SQL Server, and/or PostgreSQL is required
- Experience in using build tools like Gradle or Maven and testing frameworks like Junit/TestNG
- Must have Experience in GitHub for version control and collaborative development of automation code
- Powerful experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferred experience with Cloud Build) to integrate automated tests and implement quality gates
- Experience in using Test management tools like Jira Xray, execution cycles, and defect tracking within a structured QA process
- Must have experience in Jira for issue tracking and project management
- Must have experience in designing and automating End-to-End user journeys that simulate real-world financial scenarios

Experience Preferred:
- Good to have Public cloud experience, especially Google Cloud Platform, demonstrating the ability to leverage cloud services for test environment management, test execution, and scaling automation infrastructure securely.
- Exposure to Unix and Linux environments for managing test execution or environments.
- Exposure to AI tools like GenAI for potential applications in test case generation, test data creation, or test analysis.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Virtualization, and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes - K8s) related to setting up test environments.

Education Required:
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field