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SwiggyKA, IndiaApril 17, 2026

Job Description

Job Profile: Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

Years of Experience: 6 - 9

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

Swiggy's Engineering team helps customers enjoy personalized discovery and purchase experience across multiple product lines (Food, and Instamart). The team is enabling this by developing thoughtfully crafted applications, smart cataloging, relevance-based search & intent-driven merchandising, checkout management solutions, and core logistics systems.

We are looking for engineers who have hands-on experience in building highly reliable distributed systems and have deep expertise in database design & performance tuning. Knowledge of Machine Learning and other Predictive Modeling techniques will be an added strength.

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test is a technical individual contributor role at Swiggy and in this role, an individual is solely responsible for setting up and implementation of test automation strategy from Functional and Non-functional perspective for one module or multiple modules who you work with. In this role, you are also responsible for finding innovative ways to -optimize the test strategy for maximizing ROI from areas that are undertaken for automation.

What qualities are we looking for?

  • Candidate should have a good understanding of relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, Postgres, DyanmoDB and more
  • Should have hands-on experience in Java - Test automation. ·
  • Experience in any scripting language like python, Perl shell, TCL/TK is a plus. ·
  • Hands-on Experience on latest technologies for backend and front end development like react js, angular, Golang, servlet, bootstrap, input stream processing, JavaScript, NodeJS is a big plus. ·
  • Must have experience in TestNG, maven, HTTP client, rest and web services test automation, Selenium, Appium. ·
  • Prior hands-on experience or understanding of working with Kafka, Storm, Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Flink, vertex, spring boot, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Solr, AWS, Athena is a plus.
  • Experience required - 6 to 8 years
  • Must be an Independent executioner and has prior experience in handling complex projects with stakeholders.
  • Must have prior experience in creating optimal test strategy (Including Functional, Non-Functional, Analytics and automation) and test plans for short term and long-term projects both.
  • Must have understanding and implementation level experience on design patterns.

What will you get to do here?

  • Be an Independent executioner to handle complex projects with stakeholders.
  • Creating optimal test strategy (Including Functional, Non-Functional, Analytics and automation) and test plans for short term and long-term projects both.
  • Lead SDET is also responsible for the addition of new capabilities and features in the automation framework which is used by the entire QA team for test automation.
  • You are also responsible for managing and maintaining test coverage through periodic reports to engineering and stakeholders.
  • Lead SDET is an expert role and demands a complete hands-on contribution on Single or multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Solely responsible for setting up and implementation of test automation strategy from Functional and Non-functional perspective for one module or multiple modules

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.

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