Lead SDET

As a SDET Lead at Liven, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in shaping our quality engineering practices and automation strategy. You’ll architect and develop testing frameworks, guide engineering teams on testability, and ensure our backend services—built in Express.js (Node.js) and Go—are reliable and scalable. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and the ability to lead both by example and through influence across teams.

• Lead and contribute hands-on to the design, development, and evolution of testing architecture and automation frameworks.
• Architect and implement high-quality automated test suites (unit, integration, contract, and E2E) for Node.js/Express and Go services.
• Ensure automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed within CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed testability into system design and promote high-quality code practices.
• Drive exploratory testing and guide advanced testing efforts for complex, distributed systems.
• Define quality standards, testing strategies, and metrics across engineering teams.
• Mentor SDETs and engineers, uplifting skills and fostering a strong automation and quality culture.

• 8–12 years of experience in test automation, software engineering, or quality engineering.
• Extensive experience in architecting and scaling automated testing frameworks.
• Proficiency with automated testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, Supertest, Go test, Testify, or Ginkgo.
• Strong experience with E2E tools like Playwright or Cypress.
• Solid understanding of API testing using tools like Postman or REST-assured.
• Strong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD environments.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Good toHaveExperience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized test environments.
• Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact).
• Experience with performance testing and profiling methodologies.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Background working with large-scale distributed systems.