Lead SDET

Job Title: Lead SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Locations: Fort Mill, SC or New York City, NY

Type: Full-Time

Company Overview

Incedo is a US-based consulting, data science and technology services firm with over 3000 people helping clients from our six offices across US, Mexico and India. We help our clients achieve competitive advantage through end-to-end digital transformation. Our uniqueness lies in bringing together strong engineering, data science, and design capabilities coupled with deep domain understanding. We combine services and products to maximize business impact for our clients in telecom, Banking, Wealth Management, product engineering and life science& healthcare industries.

Working at Incedo will provide you an opportunity to work with industry leading client organizations, deep technology and domain experts, and global teams. Incedo University, our learning platform, provides ample learning opportunities starting with a structured onboarding program and carrying throughout various stages of your career. A variety of fun activities is also an integral part of our friendly work environment. Our flexible career paths allow you to grow into a program manager, a technical architect or a domain expert based on your skills and interests.

Our Mission is to enable our clients to maximize business impact from technology by:

• Harnessing the transformational impact of emerging technologies
• Bridging the gap between business and technology

Role Description

As a Technical Lead - SDET at Incedo, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining automation frameworks, tools, and scripts to ensure software quality. You will also participate in code reviews, develop test plans, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software products.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable test automation frameworks and solutions using tools such as Java

• Define and drive the overall test automation strategy , standards, and best practices across projects

• Mentor and guide a team of SDETs and QA engineers, promoting a culture of quality and continuous improvement

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into robust testing solutions

• Oversee test planning, execution, and reporting to ensure high-quality releases

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster delivery cycles

• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to automation and quality engineering standards

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide innovative solutions

• Develop and maintain documentation, including frameworks, test strategies, and best practices

Technical Skills

Skills Requirements:

• Strong expertise in test automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, and TestNG

• Experience owning an automation framework end-to-end is required

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java

• Experience designing and implementing automation frameworks from scratch

• Expertise in using interfaces, inheritance and abstraction in an automation framework.

• Experience handling dependency injection or configuration management in Java based frameworks.

• Ability to design a TestNG framework from scratch.

• Experience implementing parallel execution in TestNG.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and shift-left testing practices

• Experience with API testing, UI testing, and end-to-end automation strategies

• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

• Financial Services, Wealth Management or Banking industry experience.

• Must understand the company's long-term vision and align with it.

• Should be open to new ideas and be willing to learn and develop new skills.

• Should also be able to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks and priorities.

Qualifications

• 9-12+ years of work experience in software testing and quality engineering

• B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech or MCA degree from a reputed university. Computer science background is preferred

Company Value

We value diversity at Incedo. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.