Senior SDET II
About 1DigitalStack.ai
1DigitalStack.ai is a technology company combining AI with deep eCommerce data expertise to help global brands grow faster on e-marketplaces. Our platforms deliver advanced analytics, actionable intelligence, and media automation enabling brands to optimize performance at scale.
We work with India's top consumer companies including Unilever, Marico, Coca-Cola, Tata Consumer, Dabur, and Unicharm across 125+ marketplaces globally.
We are product-first, data-obsessed, and committed to building tools that drive real business outcomes. As we scale, we are reinventing our QA and quality engineering processes from scratch, and are looking for senior, high-agency SDETs to help shape how quality is built at 1DigitalStack.
Role Overview
As a Senior SDET, you'll be part of our core product-engineering team, working closely with product managers, designers, and backend/frontend engineers to ensure we ship reliable, high-quality products at speed.
Each Senior SDET owns quality for a sprint team. The role is hands-on, with an initial focus on manual testing and release quality, and a strong mandate to build automation foundations, test pipelines, and scalable QA processes over time. You will also play a key role in mentoring and growing junior QA talent as the team scales.
What You'll Do
Sprint & Product Quality Ownership
- Own end-to-end quality for one sprint team
- Participate in story grooming, sprint planning, and release discussions
- Translate product requirements and workflows into detailed test cases
- Perform thorough manual testing across UI, workflows, APIs, and data-heavy dashboards
- Ensure strong regression coverage for both new and existing features
- Act as the quality gatekeeper before releases
Building QA from Scratch
- Help define and establish QA processes, standards, and best practices across the product
- Decide what should be manually tested vs automated
- Set up structured test case management and documentation
- Define quality benchmarks, release criteria, and escalation processes
- Continuously evolve QA practices as product complexity and team size grow
Automation & Test Infrastructure
- Design and build automated test suites for critical user journeys and APIs
- Gradually expand automation coverage across existing and legacy features
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Improve test reliability, reduce flakiness, and optimize execution time
- Collaborate with engineers to improve testability of the product
Leadership & Scale
- Operate as the senior-most QA for your sprint team
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads
- Mentor and train junior QA engineers as they join
- Influence engineering teams to adopt a quality-first mindset
Requirements
Experience & Background
- 46 years of experience in software testing and quality engineering
- At least 2 years of hands-on manual testing experience
- At least 2 years of experience in automated testing
- Prior experience operating as a senior QA / SDET closely aligned with product and engineering leadership
- Experience working in SaaS product companies or fast-paced startup environments
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of QA fundamentals, test design, and defect lifecycle
- Experience with UI automation tools such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar
- Experience with API testing (Postman and/or automated API tests)
- Working knowledge of programming or scripting languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Python)
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable testing data-heavy dashboards, analytics, and complex workflows
Nice to Have
- Experience testing analytics or data-intensive applications
- Exposure to performance, load, or security testing
- Experience setting up QA processes or frameworks from scratch
- Prior experience mentoring or managing junior QA engineers
Why Join Us
- High-trust, no-politics culture where ownership and accountability are core to how we work
- Collaborative, ego-free team that believes in building together and supporting each other
- Learning-first mindset with peer reviews, mentorship, and exposure to real business challenges
- Modern stack and autonomy work with the latest tools and influence how we build
- Mission-driven impact build systems and processes that ensure how India's top brands rely on our products
