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Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Bengaluru)full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

SDET leader responsible for shared automation infrastructure, testing strategy, and cross-team quality initiatives. Combines hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and org-wide quality influence to scale test automation, improve developer productivity, and leverage AI to accelerate testing at Fivetran (dbt Labs integration).

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture of internal tools, libraries, and utilities for test automation and benchmarking, enabling scalable quality solutions across teams and domains.
  • Define and evolve quality strategies covering testability, release readiness, performance, and reliability.
  • Drive cross-org quality initiatives to improve execution speed, observability, and feedback loops.
  • Identify systemic risks in business-critical systems and implement robust validation strategies.
  • Mentor engineers, influence design for testability, and champion best practices across the org.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to align testing priorities with platform and business objectives.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in the software industry with a focus on building test automation frameworks, tools, and infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience defining and driving code quality for tests (review processes, efficiency, maintainability).
  • Writes critical or common code shared across multiple teams.
  • Identifies and designs fixes for critical issues concerning core parts of the product.
  • Contributes to and enforces department-wide coding standards.
  • Identifies major improvements in product to improve quality and resilience.
  • Identifies and fixes performance, scalability, and reliability gaps in tests and test frameworks.
  • Defines testing efficiency and reporting strategies.
  • Defines guidelines for product releases, including quality gates and readiness criteria.
  • Expert in design principles and applying them to test architecture.
  • Strong knowledge of OOP (preferably Java)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Experience with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI), modern build tools (Bazel, Maven, Gradle), and observability platforms (New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Strong background in infrastructure and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Temporal).
  • Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives across multiple teams and influence business-critical systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to support complex technical discussions.
  • Knowledge of ELT pipelines, including testing data integrity, schema evolution, and pipeline reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI techniques to improve test efficiency, defect detection, and productivity.
  • Experience evaluating and adopting emerging quality engineering practices (e.g., shift-left testing, chaos engineering, autonomous testing).

Skills

Required:Test automation architectureQuality strategyCross-team collaborationMentoringProgramming (Java)Cloud platformsCI/CD toolingBuild toolsObservability toolsContainers & orchestration

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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