SDE1 - Quality

Job location: India (Remote)

About the role:
The role involves designing, executing, and maintaining robust functional, regression, and integration testing to ensure product quality and reliability, along with thorough defect tracking, analysis, and resolution. The individual will develop and maintain UI and API automation frameworks to improve test coverage, minimize manual effort, and enhance release efficiency. Close collaboration with development teams is expected to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and ensure high-quality releases. The role also includes integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, supporting production issue analysis, and verifying hotfixes in live environments. Additionally, the candidate will actively participate in requirement and design reviews to ensure testability and clarity, maintain comprehensive QA documentation, and continuously improve testing frameworks, tools, and overall QA processes.
What you will be expected to do:

• Design, execute, and maintain test cases, test plans, and test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Identify software defects, document them clearly, and track them through to closure.
• Analyze bugs and provide detailed insights to help developers understand root causes.
• Partner closely with the development team to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and ensure overall product quality.
• Develop, maintain, and improve automated test suites (API/UI) to enhance test coverage, reduce manual effort, and improve release confidence.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated tests into the deployment workflow.
• Validate production issues, support troubleshooting, and verify hotfixes in real-time environments.
• Recommend improvements in product performance, usability, and reliability based on test findings.
• Participate in requirement and design reviews to ensure clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Benchmark against competitor products and suggest enhancements based on industry trends.
• Maintain detailed test documentation, including test results, defect logs, and release readiness assessments.
• Continuously improve QA processes, automation frameworks, and testing methodologies.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in software testing (manual + exposure to automation).
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing types, and best practices.
• Experience in designing and executing test cases, test plans, and regression suites.
• Exposure to automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, or similar.
• Basic programming or scripting knowledge (Java/Python preferred).
• Good understanding of SQL for backend and data validation testing.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman or RestAssured.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Jira, TestRail, etc.).
• Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to identify root causes.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum environments and partner with developers, product, and DevOps teams.
• Strong ownership mindset — having contributed to high-quality, near bug-free releases.

Good to have:

• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong focus on product quality.
• Experience with performance, load, or security testing (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP tools, etc.).
• Exposure to advanced automation frameworks or building automation scripts from scratch.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests.
• Experience working with observability tools like Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus for production verification.
• Good understanding of microservices, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.