About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test based in India.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing layers.
- Establish and enforce QA delivery standards, evidence requirements, review processes, and quality gates.
- Own and guide the architecture and governance of API contract testing.
- Review frontend constraint dictionaries and FSM/state-model outputs for completeness, consistency, and technical quality.
- Review API schema reconstructions, network evidence, and tracer replay outputs for accuracy, quality, and traceability.
- Review test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies across workstreams.
- Coordinate QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations Associates to align technical execution with project timelines.
- Manage dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation throughout the engagement.
- Serve as the escalation point for cross-layer technical discrepancies and evidence-quality issues.
- Compile and quality-check raw technical evidence dossiers produced by individual workstreams.
- Identify evidence gaps, inconsistencies, and areas requiring rework before stakeholder handoff.
- Monitor delivery health, technical risks, evidence quality, dependencies, and unresolved gaps.
- Prepare comprehensive technical evidence packages for the client team responsible for final modeling and logic-gap assessment.
- Support technical readouts by ensuring findings are clearly documented and traceable to empirical evidence.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to SDETs and QA Analysts as required.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in QA leadership roles spanning frontend, middleware, and backend testing.
- Demonstrated expertise in API contract testing architecture, governance, and validation.
- Practical experience with knowledge graphs, entity-relationship data modeling, or structured approaches to technical dependency and test/data traceability.
- Strong understanding of layered system architectures and the importance of independently validating quality at each layer.
- Proven experience establishing technical delivery governance, standards, quality gates, review processes, and evidence requirements.
- Deep technical grounding across manual testing, automation, API testing, and systems-level QA.
- Experience mentoring or managing SDETs and QA Analysts.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication capabilities.
- Experience leading complex, multi-week technical QA, API validation, or security assessment engagements is strongly preferred.
- Experience establishing evidence and traceability models across complex technical workflows is preferred.
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, entity-relationship models, or structured technical dependency and evidence modeling is advantageous; deep knowledge-graph engineering expertise is not required.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify inconsistencies and drive resolution.
- Ability to synthesize complex technical evidence into concise, stakeholder-ready findings and handoff materials.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
- Ability to work independently while providing clear technical direction and governance across cross-functional teams.
Conditions
- Fully remote working opportunity from India.
- Contract position for an initial 4-month engagement.
- 22 hours per week commitment.
- Compensation of $17 per hour.
- Planned project start date of October 19.
- Opportunity for a full-time employment extension based on performance and project requirements.
- Opportunity to lead QA governance across a complex, multi-layered technical platform.
- Exposure to API contract testing, technical evidence modeling, cross-layer validation, and advanced QA practices.
- Collaboration with SDETs, QA Analysts, Test Operations Associates, and client-facing technical stakeholders.
- Opportunity to influence testing standards, quality governance, and technical delivery processes.