Software Test Automation Engineer - Mobile / Payments

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at GoDaddy, you will be a pivotal technical leader and automation architect, instrumental in ensuring the quality and reliability of our cutting-edge mobile and payments platforms. This hybrid role, based in Pune, Maharashtra, places you at the forefront of innovation, where you'll drive quality initiatives across backend services, Android applications, and web platforms.
• • You will be responsible for defining and owning the cross-platform automation framework architecture, ensuring its scalability and maintainability across diverse systems. This includes designing and implementing robust automation solutions for various communication protocols such as REST, gRPC, and event-driven services, guaranteeing comprehensive test coverage.
• • A significant aspect of your role will involve leading complex debugging efforts, conducting thorough root cause analysis (RCA), and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies across our distributed cloud systems. Your expertise will be crucial in identifying and resolving intricate technical challenges that impact system stability and performance.
• • You will play a key role in driving the overall quality strategy for the team, with a specific focus on enhancing regression resilience for secure payment flows and critical partner integrations. This involves developing and executing test plans that validate the integrity and security of financial transactions.
• • Strengthening our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines will be a core responsibility. You will integrate high-value automated test suites into platforms like GitHub Actions, ensuring that quality checks are seamlessly embedded into the development lifecycle, enabling faster and more reliable releases.
• • Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You will work closely with cross-functional engineering, device, cloud, and product teams in a highly collaborative hybrid environment. Your ability to partner effectively will be essential in validating secure transaction flows across the complex device-cloud-web ecosystems that GoDaddy operates within.
• • As a senior member of the quality organization, you will be expected to mentor and guide junior and mid-level SDETs. This includes providing technical leadership, sharing best practices, and actively working to elevate the automation capabilities and quality standards across the entire team.
• • You will contribute to the architectural design of automation frameworks, ensuring they are adaptable to future technological advancements and business needs. This proactive approach to framework evolution will be critical for long-term scalability and engineering velocity.
• • Your responsibilities will extend to defining and implementing test strategies for new features and services, ensuring they meet GoDaddy's high standards for performance, security, and user experience.
• • You will be instrumental in fostering a culture of quality throughout the engineering organization, advocating for best practices in test automation, code quality, and defect prevention.
• • The role requires a deep understanding of software testing principles and methodologies, coupled with a passion for building robust, maintainable, and efficient automation solutions.
• • You will be involved in the evaluation and adoption of new testing tools and technologies to continuously improve our testing processes and outcomes.
• • Ensuring the stability and reliability of mission-critical payment flows is paramount, and your contributions will directly impact the trust and satisfaction of GoDaddy's customers.
• • You will actively participate in agile ceremonies, providing valuable input on testability, risk assessment, and quality metrics during sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• • This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of quality engineering at GoDaddy, working on challenging problems within a dynamic and supportive environment.