# Senior SDET at Propel Software

- Company: Propel Software
- What the company does: Backed by Norwest Venture Partners.
- Company website: https://propelsoftware.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Thiruvananthapuram
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/propelsoftware/4c00c1da-bdcb-4b24-a250-838556b92adb
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/propel-software-senior-sdet/

## About the role

Lead with quality judgment: Challenge requirements and assumptions; distinguish verification (does it work as specified?) from validation (does it solve the user problem?); identify failure modes, edge cases, and business risks beyond happy paths. Test from the customer’s perspective: Map real user workflows, anticipate misuse and operational edge cases, and assess real-world impact; partner early with Product and Engineering to refine acceptance criteria and prevent defects.

## What they're looking for

- 7-10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, SDET, quality engineering, developer productivity, or test-platform engineering, including 5+ years building and evolving automation or test infrastructure
- Evidence of owning an automation framework, test platform, internal developer tool, CI quality gate, or engineering system from architecture through adoption, operational support, and iterative improvement
- Experience testing modern systems beyond a single web UI: APIs, asynchronous workflows, distributed services, event-driven systems, data flows, third-party integrations, authentication/authorization, and failure recovery
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript preferred, with the ability to explain trade-offs among UI, API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, resilience, and exploratory testing
- Experience making automated testing trustworthy at scale: parallelization, isolation, deterministic test data, environment provisioning, observability, flaky-test diagnosis, retry policy design, quarantine/remediation workflows, and actionable reporting
- Strong CI/CD experience, including test selection or test-tiering strategies, PR quality gates, artifact collection, failure triage, and reducing feedback time without weakening coverage

Tags: Engineering - QA

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/propel-software-senior-sdet/