SDE3 - Quality

Job location: Remote in India

About the role:
We are looking for a seasoned Quality Assurance (QA) professional with expertise in designing, implementing, and scaling end-to-end testing frameworks across multiple platforms. This role will own QA strategy — from requirement validation to release certification — ensuring high product reliability and performance at scale. This role will lead complex automation initiatives, guide junior testers on best practices, contribute to architectural discussions for testability, and collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams. The role will also work on defining quality metrics, improving CI/CD test integration, and proactively identifying risks in production environments.
What you will be expected to do

- Architect and own the quality-engineering platform across UI (Android & Web), API and backend testing.

- Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios for complex systems involving microservices, APIs, and distributed architectures.

- Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure testability, reliability, and fast turnaround of features.

- Conduct deep root cause analysis of critical defects and drive preventive QA practices.

- Establish and track key QA metrics like defect leakage, automation coverage, and test efficiency.

- Conduct code reviews for QA automation, guide junior testers, and enforce quality standards.

- Own the end-to-end validation process of production hotfixes, live environment verifications, and release certifications.

- Monitor technical issues raised by the field team, and raise tickets if bugs are found.

- Perform manual, UI/UX, sanity, API, regression, database and functional testing for android apps, web portals, automations, backend APIs and other tools.

- Mentoring and guiding existing quality team members.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.

- Good expertise in both manual and automation testing across complex systems.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software QA with a strong focus on test automation and release quality, including 2+ years of experience in team mentoring and leadership.

- Proven experience with automation tools/frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, or similar.

- Good programming skills in Java or Python for writing maintainable automation code.

- Solid understanding of API testing (Postman, RestAssured); backend validation, and SQL-based data verification.

- Experience implementing automated tests in CI/CD pipelines (Github/Bitbucket).

- Skilled in analyzing test trends, improving test processes, and driving data-backed quality initiatives.

- Good communicator with an ownership mindset and ability to collaborate cross-functionally in agile product teams.

- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus.

- Previous experience in performance, load, or security testing (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP, etc.).

What Sun King offers

- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry

- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.

- A truly multicultural experience: You will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.

- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

Originally posted on Himalayas