Technical Lead - SDET (Test Automation) - Telecom is Mandatory

Role: Technical Lead - SDET (Test Automation)

Reports To: Director Quality & Automation Engineering

Note: Telecom experience is mandatory

About the Job:

We are hiring Technical Leads SDET to own the architecture and delivery of test automation for Mobileum's telecom products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will write code, design frameworks, set automation standards, and mentor a team of SDETs while partnering closely with development and DevOps.

SDET here means engineering-grade quality: you build the frameworks and utilities others rely on, embed testing into CI/CD, and treat tests as durable engineering assets — not brittle scripts

Roles & Responsibility: -

Automation Architecture & Leadership

• Design and own scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks (UI, API, integration, E2E).
• Set automation standards, patterns (e.g., Page Object Model, fixtures), and code-review practices.
• Mentor SDETs; raise the engineering bar across the team.

Test Engineering

• Build automated suites for functional, integration, regression, and E2E coverage across products.
• Develop reusable test utilities, test data management, and environment provisioning for tests.
• Drive API and contract testing (RestAssured/Postman) and service-level validation.

CI/CD & Shift-Left

• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates for continuous delivery.
• Champion shift-left testing and fast, reliable feedback loops.
• Reduce flakiness and regression cycle time (including AI-assisted prioritization where useful)

Performance Engineering (primary focus for one of the two seats).

• Design and execute load, stress, soak, spike, and scalability tests using JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust.
• Define performance benchmarks, SLAs/SLOs, and capacity models for high-throughput telecom workloads.
• Perform bottleneck analysis and profiling across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers using APM/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).

Collaboration & Quality Analysis

• Partner with developers, DevOps, and telecom architects to build testability into design.
• Analyze pre-production and production issues; close test gaps and improve coverage.
• Translate roaming/telecom-specific logic into robust automated validation.

Desired Profile: -

Programming & Frameworks

• Strong coding in Java and/or Python (TypeScript/JS a plus).
• Modern automation frameworks: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, TestNG/PyTest.
• API testing: RestAssured, Postman; contract testing.

Engineering Practices

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI; Git-based workflows.
• Test architecture, design patterns, and framework maintainability.
• Docker/Kubernetes exposure for test environments (OpenShift a plus).

Performance Engineering (required for the perf-focused seat, desirable for both)

• Load tooling: JMeter, Gatling, k6, Locust.
• APM & profiling: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace/New Relic; bottleneck analysis and capacity planning.

Telecom Domain

• Familiarity with telecom/roaming data and protocols (GTP, Diameter, SS7, SIP).
• Exposure to CDR/SDR/TAP validation and 4G/5G core concepts a strong plus.

Technical skills:

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and set automation strategy
• Strong debugging and problem-solving in distributed systems
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
• For the performance seat: demonstrable experience owning performance testing for high-scale systems

Good to have:

• Big data / distributed systems testing (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• OpenShift/Kubernetes and cloud-native testing experience.
• AI-assisted testing / self-healing automation exposure.
• Roaming analytics or telecom product QE background.

Work Experience: 8–12 years in test automation/SDET roles with demonstrated framework design and technical leadership

Educational Qualification:

BE. / B.Tech., M.E./M.Tech. or M. Sc. in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering / MCA

Location: Bangalore