Director, SDET

About the role

The Director of SDET is a pivotal role blending strong technical depth with strategic and people leadership. You will own the quality engineering vision for the organization, mentor the next generation of SDET managers and leads, and champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and practices to modernize how the organization builds, tests, and ships software.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end quality engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple product lines or business units
• Establish quality gates, release readiness criteria, and CI/CD processes
• Drive a "shift-left, shift-right" quality culture — embedding testability into design reviews and using production observability to close the loop
• Conduct architectural reviews across new and existing products to proactively surface scalability, reliability, and performance risks
• Evaluate and select tooling, frameworks, and platforms (open-source and commercial) that scale automation across teams

What you need

• 15–27 yrs of experience
• Selenium
• Test automation
• Performance testing
• Playwright
• Java
• Python
• Any graduate

Good to have

• CI/CD
• Machine learning
• AWS
• GCP
• CRM
• JavaScript