TestVagrant Technologies is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr SDET) in Bangalore, offering an opportunity for experienced QA professionals who enjoy software engineering, automation architecture, debugging and solving complex quality challenges. The role is aimed at professionals with 5–8 years of experience and strong hands-on expertise in Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, API automation, Appium and modern AI-driven testing approaches.
🏢 About TestVagrant Technologies
TestVagrant Technologies is a technology and quality engineering company focused on helping teams build and deliver reliable software. Its careers information highlights opportunities to solve complex engineering problems, advocate test engineering and contribute to technology and organization building. The company describes its culture around curiosity, courage, proficiency, collaboration and continuous learning.
📌 Job Overview
- Company: TestVagrant Technologies
- Role: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr SDET)
- Experience: 5–8 Years
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Primary Automation: Playwright
- Programming: TypeScript / JavaScript
- API: API Automation & Testing
- Mobile: Appium / Mobile Automation
- Emerging Technology: AI-Driven Testing / GenAI
- Focus: Automation Frameworks, Test Strategy, Debugging and Quality Engineering
- Work: Collaboration with Developers, QA Engineers and Product Teams
🧑💻 What Will You Do?
As a Sr SDET, you will be expected to contribute beyond simply writing automated test cases. The position involves designing, developing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, building reliable UI and API automation, investigating difficult quality issues and improving overall test coverage.
You may also contribute to automation strategy, framework improvements, debugging, test reliability and engineering practices. The JD’s emphasis on AI-driven testing makes familiarity with modern AI-assisted approaches particularly relevant.
🌟 Why This Role Is Valuable for Experienced QA Professionals
This position can be particularly relevant for professionals looking to move toward SDET, Automation Architect or Quality Engineering responsibilities. Instead of focusing exclusively on execution, the role combines programming, framework engineering, API testing, mobile automation and test strategy.
The combination of Playwright + TypeScript/JavaScript + API automation + Appium also gives candidates an opportunity to demonstrate cross-platform testing expertise. Adding AI-driven testing knowledge can further broaden the technical profile.
🛠️ Skills Required
Core Skills
- Playwright automation
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- UI and API automation
- REST API testing
- Mobile automation with Appium
- Automation framework design
- Test strategy and planning
- Debugging and root-cause analysis
- Functional, regression and integration testing
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
Additional Skills That Can Strengthen Your Profile
- Git and GitHub
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Actions/Jenkins
- Postman or similar API tools
- SQL and database validation
- npm/package management
- Page Object Model and reusable components
- Parallel and cross-browser execution
- Docker
- Test reporting and observability
- AI coding assistants and GenAI-based test generation
🎯 Expected TestVagrant Interview Rounds
- Round 1 – Technical/Coding Assessment: Programming fundamentals, automation concepts, testing knowledge and potentially a practical coding assignment.
- Round 2 – Technical Interview: Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, API automation, framework architecture, debugging, mobile automation and real-world testing scenarios.
- Round 3 – Final/Leadership Discussion: Communication, ownership, problem-solving, project experience, collaboration and expectations.
💰 Expected Salary Range
Salary varies according to experience, technical depth and the final role level. Public salary data provides a useful market reference rather than a guaranteed package. Glassdoor currently lists reported Senior SDET compensation at TestVagrant around ₹12–20 LPA, while some reported Sr. SDET entries extend higher.
For this 5–8 year Sr SDET profile, candidates may therefore consider approximately ₹12–22+ LPA as a broad market-oriented expectation, subject to skills, interview performance and negotiation. An external listing for a TestVagrant Sr SDET mobile-testing role has also shown a ₹15–31 LPA range, illustrating that specialized experience can command different compensation.
📚 Preparation Tips
Playwright: Revise locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, browser contexts, tracing, network interception, parallel execution, retries and Playwright framework architecture.
TypeScript/JavaScript: Practice asynchronous programming, promises, arrays/objects, functions, classes, interfaces, error handling and clean automation code.
API Automation: Prepare REST methods, status codes, authentication, headers, payload validation, JSON schema validation, chaining and negative API scenarios.
Appium: Revise desired capabilities, driver architecture, mobile locators, gestures, synchronization, device handling and Android/iOS automation concepts.
AI Testing: Understand practical applications of GenAI for test-case generation, synthetic test data, test maintenance, failure analysis and exploratory testing. Be prepared to explain where AI should complement—not replace—engineering judgment.
Senior-Level Scenarios: Practice explaining how you designed frameworks, reduced flaky tests, improved execution time, handled production defects and established automation strategy.
📝 Resume Tips for This Sr SDET Role
Make “Sr SDET | Playwright | TypeScript | API Automation | Appium” prominent in your resume headline if those skills genuinely match your experience.
Do not simply list tools. Show engineering impact:
- Designed scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript for web applications.
- Automated critical REST APIs and integrated API validation into regression pipelines.
- Implemented Appium automation for mobile workflows.
- Reduced regression execution time through parallel automation.
- Investigated flaky tests and improved automation reliability.
- Introduced AI-assisted approaches for test generation or maintenance.
For a 5–8 year profile, emphasize framework ownership, technical decisions, mentoring, debugging, test strategy and measurable quality improvements rather than presenting yourself primarily as a test-case executor.
📩 How to Apply
📩ganeshk@testvagrant.com
Interested candidates can share their profile/DM to Ganesh Kumar the recruiter or send their updated resume to ganeshk@testvagrant.com as mentioned in the hiring post.
Before applying, ensure your resume clearly highlights 5–8 years of experience, Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, API automation, Appium, framework development, test strategy and AI/GenAI testing exposure where applicable.
