Senior SDET

Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Are you a Senior SDET with a passion for coding and a knack forquality? This is your opportunity to join Cornerstone's Testing Team in our Hyderabad office. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you'llcollaborate with some of the industry's most skilled Software Architects andEngineers to create exceptional software for our customers.

About the Role:The Senior SDET role is vital to ensuring the quality andreliability of our CSOD Cloud Platform. You'll work in an agile softwaredevelopment environment, gaining a deep technical and functional understandingof our product architecture. Your contributions will directly impact ourongoing feature and enhancement development efforts.

In this role you will...

• Quality Assurance Leadership: Work within an agile development environment to ensure the quality of the CSOD Cloud Platform's architecture.
• Product Expertise: Gain a comprehensive understanding of our product architecture and play a key role in feature and enhancement development.
• Manual Testing: Write and execute test cases/plans, log defects, verify fixes, and ensure thorough coverage.
• Requirement Analysis: Collaborate with product owners to analyze requirements, raise questions, and ensure clarity.
• Test Automation: Develop automated tests at the unit, integration, and UI layers using tools like TestNG, Selenium, Cypress, and others.
• Scrum Collaboration: Manage the test case inventory for your scrum team and coordinate with QA team members.
• Technical Guidance: Provide technical support and guidance to QA and Product Support teams when necessary.
• Defect Analysis: Analyze defects and test results to identify root causes and improve software quality.
• Participate in the enhancement of our Test Automation and Continuous Integration practices Continuous Improvement.
• SQL Expertise: Write SQL queries for data setup and test verification, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Communication: Provide timely updates on critical issues and overall status to the scrum team and other stakeholders.

• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3-6 years of experience in software quality assurance, including testing of analytical systems.
• 2+ years of experience in building test automation using tools like Selenium,Robotium, Cypress, Playwrite, or Appium.

• Technical Skills:

1. Extensive experience with various types of testing: static/dynamic, black/white/grey box, automated regression, build verification, and volume testing.
2. Strong analytical skills with a creative and detail-oriented approach.
3. Proficient in SQL query writing (MySQL, Oracle).
4. Strong programming skills in Java and Python.
5. Familiarity with TestNG, JUnit, Jenkins, and TeamCity.
6. Tools: Experience with test management tools such as Jira, TestLink, TestRail, and Bugzilla.
7. Operating Systems: Proficient with Unix/Linux systems.
8. Soft Skills: Excellent communication skills, proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently.

• AI Test Strategy: Design and execute validation strategiesfor AI-powered features, including Generative AI, LLM integrations, RAGpipelines, prompts, and AI agents.
• AI Quality Evaluation: Create evaluation datasets andautomate validation for accuracy, relevance, hallucination detection, safety,toxicity, bias, and factual consistency.
• AI Automation: Build AI-driven automation frameworksleveraging Python, Java, Playwright/Selenium, REST APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• AI Observability: Monitor AI quality metrics, regressiontrends, prompt changes, model performance, and production telemetry.
• Automation Framework: Enhance scalable automationframeworks with API, UI, integration, performance, and contract testing.
• Experience with AI/LLM testing, prompt engineering, MCP,REST APIs, vector databases, and AI evaluation frameworks is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or similarAI coding assistants.
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud platforms,and performance testing.