Lead Quality / Software Development (SDET) Engineer

Location: Deerfield, IL - 100% Onsite

Duration: 6+ months

Competencies:

• 5-10+ years experience
• Playwright
• Software Quality Engineering, SDET, or Test Automation roles

Job Title Lead Quality / Software Development (SDET) Engineer

Technical/Functional Skills

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, SDET, or Test Automation roles.
• Senior / Lead resources should preferably have 8+ years of experience with ownership of QA deliverables, automation strategy, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience in Digital, Retail, Healthcare, Pharmacy, or customer-facing enterprise platforms is highly desirable.
• Highly skilled Senior Quality Engineer with strong expertise in functional testing across both web and native mobile (iOS/Android) applications, complemented by hands-on experience in web test automation. The ideal candidate will have a quality-first mindset, ensuring consistent customer experiences across multiple digital channels while driving end-to-end testing, automation, and continuous quality improvements.
• Experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium or Maestro is highly desirable, though not mandatory. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to define test strategies, automate critical workflows, validate releases, and continuously improve software quality across web and mobile platforms.

Experience Required Minimum 5years

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and drive end-to-end (E2E) testing activities covering Functional, Integration, System, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across both web and mobile applications.
• Perform test planning, estimation, and scheduling for large and complex initiatives.
• Work effectively in an Agile environment, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to ensure successful execution of SIT and E2E testing.
• Bring a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on QA automation experience with strong expertise in web automation using Playwright or Selenium with Java/Cucumber or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Demonstrate strong functional testing experience across both web and native mobile (iOS/Android) applications, including test planning, execution, defect management, and end-to-end validation.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute scalable automated test suites for web applications.
• Conduct API and service-level testing using tools such as Postman, Rest Assured, or equivalent open-source frameworks.
• Perform backend and database validations with hands-on experience in MongoDB Compass and SQL.
• Support production deployments, smoke testing, and release validation activities to ensure application stability.
• Drive UAT activities, including bug triage, defect reporting, prioritization, and tracking using JIRA or Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Demonstrate strong debugging and troubleshooting capabilities, including network-level analysis and log investigation.
• Utilize monitoring and observability platforms such as Kubernetes (K8s), Kibana, and Dynatrace for production validation and issue analysis.
• Partner closely with Development, Business Analysts (BA), Product Owners, UI/UX teams, and DevOps engineers to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Coordinate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.
• Exhibit excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Maintain flexibility to overlap with onsite working hours (until noon, as needed).

Generic Managerial Skills

• Ability to lead distributed QA / SDET teams across onsite and offshore models.
• Strong communication skills with business, technology, product, and leadership stakeholders.
• Capability to define QA approach, automation roadmap, governance, metrics, and delivery cadence.
• Ability to mentor Quality Engineers and review test cases, automation scripts, and defect quality.
• Strong ownership mindset with risk identification, dependency management, and proactive escalation.
• Experience in fast-paced Agile delivery with accountability for release readiness and quality outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium, Maestro for native iOS and Android applications.
• Experience with mobile application testing across multiple devices, operating systems, and screen sizes.
• Experience implementing automation in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript-based automation frameworks.
• Experience with responsive web testing, accessibility testing, and cross-browser compatibility testing.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining API automation frameworks

Education Bachelors or Masters

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.