Technical Lead SDET

Core Skills & Professional Attributes

• Commitment to Quality: Consistently deliver high-quality outcomes while holding oneself to high standards in execution, accuracy, and accountability.
• Ownership & Accountability: Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership by following through on commitments, taking responsibility for outcomes, and seeing work through to completion.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate challenges, analyze root causes, and proactively propose and implement effective solutions—rather than waiting for directions.
• Innovation & Curiosity: Exhibit curiosity and open mindedness, continuously seeking better ways to solve problems, improving processes, and spark innovation.
• Adaptability: Embrace change with flexibility and resilience, quickly adjusting to evolving priorities, tools, and business needs.
• Independent Thinking: Willingness to think critically and develop original solutions—not just execute instructions or act as an order taker.
• Strong Communication Skills: Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders, articulate ideas and solutions confidently, and collaborate to resolve issues and maintain delivery momentum.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership: Work effectively across teams, building trust and alignment to resolve problems and ensure successful, timely deliveries.
• Automation Expertise: Proven ability to effectively use automation tools and frameworks to drive efficiency, quality, and scalable delivery.
• Dedication & Impact: Demonstrate genuine dedication to the team’s mission, actively contributing to the success of the team and the Bank while delivering quality products to customers.
• Communication Skills: Must be able to articulate ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing with the IT and technical teams

Testing Skills Required

• Test Design Techniques: Knowledge of various testing methodologies (functional, API, regression, integration)
• Test Case Development: Ability to create comprehensive and effective test cases
• Defect Management: Skilled in identifying, logging, and tracking defects
• Communication: Clear and concise verbal and written communication with developers, QA teams, and stakeholders
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to identify root causes and propose solutions
• Adaptability: Ability to keep up with evolving technologies and testing practices
• Agile Mindset: Experience working within Agile development processes
• Continuous Improvement: Drive automation initiatives for API/web services testing, Web UI, data extract scripts, database testing, and test data management based on business needs

What will the QA Test Engineer Be Doing

As part of a cross-functional Agile squad, chapter, and tribe, the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) plays a key role in driving quality engineering practices and delivering test automation excellence. The primary responsibility is to provide thought leadership within the Quality Engineering discipline while ensuring quality through best-in-class automation strategies. This includes designing and developing new test automation frameworks using a variety of tools, maintaining existing automation code with high standards, and applying strong software design principles. The SDET leverages creativity and technical expertise to identify innovative approaches for testing complex software solutions.

In collaboration with all members of the Agile squad, the SDET helps define customer and product requirements and ensures their alignment with both product and test code. They also conduct exploratory testing when necessary. The role requires active partnership and open communication to share ideas, raise concerns, and adhere to quality policies and procedures as defined by Fifth Third’s quality governance standards.

• Work as part of an Agile squad, leading quality engineering efforts while collaborating closely with the squad, chapter, and tribe.
• Take ownership of test strategy, test planning, framework implementation, and test execution within the Agile environment.
• Develop high-quality, Reusable Framework Components, and maintainable test automation code using a variety of automation tools - such as AI for Self-Healing Locators (Applicable for both Katalon and Webdriver IO), AI for Failure Analysis
• Design and implement structured, clean, and cohesive test automation and exploration tests for all new features and functional changes. Organize these into repeatable test suites for native mobile applications (if any), browser-based applications and cover user interface and API layers.
• Author test cases in test management tools and ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Efficiently reproduce reported software issues, analyze data, and collaborate with team members to quickly resolve obstacles and maintain delivery timelines.