Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 12 October 2026.
About the role
We are building the Customer Lifetime Orchestrator — an omni-channel marketing and customer engagement platform that helps banks engage end customers and influence financial behaviour.
As Senior SDET, you own quality for this domain together with the engineering team: test strategy, automation completeness, and the team's ability to execute effectively. This is a hands-on test design and automation role — not a downstream QA handoff.
You will partner with Product, UX, and full-stack engineers (web, mobile, backend, AI-assisted features) to shift quality left and scale automation.
Define and execute test strategy and test plans per release (scope, risks, schedule, entry/exit criteria).
Co-author acceptance criteria and Gherkin scenarios with Product; act as quality gatekeeper before releases.
Build and maintain Playwright web E2E tests for real-world customer journeys across engagement channels.
Govern mobile E2E strategy (Android/iOS) with engineers; use device-farm/matrix testing.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD with GitHub Actions (smoke, regression, quality gates).
Manage test environments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Use Grafana (or similar) to analyse test results and improve feedback loops.
Combine automation with exploratory and manual testing for edge cases; reduce flakiness and improve parallelization.
Coach engineers on TDD, BDD, contract tests, synthetic data, and shift-left practices.
Advocate AI-assisted testing (generation, visual regression, maintenance).
Required
5+ years as SDET or hands-on QA with an automation-first mindset.
Strong test planning and acceptance-criteria design with Product/UX.
Playwright (web), Espresso (Android), XCUITest (iOS).
Java and JavaScript/TypeScript; Angular SPA, mobile, microservices.
API testing (REST, Postman, RestAssured or equivalent).
CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), BDD/Gherkin, web and mobile E2E.
Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes.
Device/browser farms (Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or equivalent).
Git/GitHub, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).
Non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility, localization).
Excellent communication in distributed teams (India, Vietnam, Europe).
Nice to have
Digital banking, martech, or campaign/engagement management.
Performance testing (k6, Gatling, JMeter).
SaaS or enterprise software testing experience.
AI/ML product testing; XRay, CucumberStudio, SonarCloud, security tooling.
What we offer
Premium customer-facing platform used by leading banks worldwide.
Shape quality engineering across web, mobile, backend, and AI orchestration.
Global, distributed team with core hours in India and overlap with Europe.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Docker · Git · Grafana · Helm · Jira · Playwright · Postman · REST
Rare in Backbase's other 42 open postings.
Read against Backbase's other open postings on this site.
The team: Product & Platform Department HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 23 open in Product & Platform Department. 12 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
CI/CD (18 of 23), LLM (12 of 23), GitHub (11 of 23), Microservices (9 of 23), Angular (8 of 23), JavaScript (8 of 23), Android (7 of 23)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) posted Oct 13
- Senior AI Engineer posted Oct 12
- Platform Engineer posted Oct 12
- Senior AI Engineer posted Oct 6
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Oct 1
- Senior AI Engineer (Android) posted Sep 28
- AI Applied Software Engineer (Android) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer (Android) posted Sep 22
- AI Applied Software Engineer (iOS) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer (iOS) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 22
- AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 16
- Staff Engineer I posted Sep 3
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Aug 25
- Product Manager posted Aug 17
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Jul 31
- AI Applied Software Engineer posted Jul 31
- (RD) Senior Engineering Team Lead posted Jul 24
- Senior Database Engineer posted Jun 24
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Jun 10
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Apr 1
From the team and dates on Backbase's own job board.
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