Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
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About the Role:
If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career!
Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.
At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!
What You’ll Own:
The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role is critical in driving engineering-led quality by ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our products. This role contributes directly to customer experience, release confidence, and overall product stability through strong automation practices and proactive quality ownership.
By enhancing test automation coverage, strengthening CI/CD quality gates, and promoting early defect detection, the Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) directly reduces manual QA effort, production defects, release risk, and engineering rework — translating into lower operational cost, faster release cycles, and more predictable, confident delivery. The role also collaborates closely with developers, product managers, and QA teams to build scalable quality processes and continuously improve engineering efficiency.
What You Bring:
5+ years of experience in software quality engineering — setting automation direction, mentoring SDETs, and driving technical execution
Strong hands-on experience in building scalable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend systems (Integration Testing)
Deep experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.), including test integration, pipeline optimization, and release gating
Strong understanding of infrastructure components impacting quality (cloud environments, containers, microservices, service dependencies, and test environments)
Proven experience ensuring environment stability, including test environment reliability, test data management, and flaky test reduction
Strong background in performance testing and engineering (load, stress, scalability testing, and performance bottleneck analysis)
Experience collaborating with DevOps/SRE teams to improve system reliability, deployment stability, and observability
Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and LLM-based systems to improve test design, automate test creation, analyze failures, and accelerate debugging workflows
Experience applying AI-driven approaches for log analysis, failure clustering, test optimization, and defect pattern detection
Note: Ability to work from the Bangalore office 3 days per week.
Learn More About Skillz:
About this role
Skillz is seeking a Senior SDET to own quality engineering across their mobile eSports platform, which processes billions of tournaments for millions of players globally. You'll drive automation strategy and execution across UI, API, and backend systems while strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual QA effort, and accelerating release cycles. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA teams to build scalable quality processes and directly impact product reliability and customer experience.
The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in software quality engineering with proven expertise building test automation frameworks, optimizing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and managing test environments at scale. You'll need deep knowledge of infrastructure components—cloud environments, containers, microservices—and demonstrated success in performance testing, flaky test reduction, and environment stability. Experience collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams is essential, as is hands-on familiarity with AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Copilot to enhance test design, failure analysis, and debugging workflows.
This is an in-office role based in Bengaluru, requiring presence three days per week. You'd be joining a team of engineers from top-tier companies including Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and major gaming studios.
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