Zepto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET) for its engineering team. The opportunity is aimed at professionals with 5+ years of experience and strong hands-on expertise in WebdriverIO (WDIO), Rest Assured, UI/API automation framework development and CI/CD integration.
This is a highly automation-focused role for experienced QA engineers who can build scalable testing solutions rather than simply execute existing test scripts. Candidates with strong programming, framework architecture and continuous-integration experience can align their profiles toward this opening.
๐ Job Details
๐น Company: Zepto
๐น Role: Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET)
๐น Experience: 5+ years
๐น Core Skills: WebdriverIO (WDIO), Rest Assured
๐น Testing: UI & API Automation
๐น Framework: Build automation frameworks from scratch
๐น CI/CD: Strong pipeline integration experience
๐น Location: Not specified in the shared hiring post
๐น Email: abhishek184gupta@gmail.com
๐ข About Zepto
Zepto is an Indian technology and quick-commerce company founded in 2021. Its platform focuses on enabling customers to order groceries, daily essentials and other products for rapid delivery. Zepto’s careers page describes its mission as revolutionizing how India shops and emphasizes speed, first-principles thinking and customer obsession. (Zepto)
The company’s technology environment supports a large-scale consumer platform where reliability of web services, APIs and customer-facing workflows is important. For an SDET, this type of environment can involve automation across critical user journeys, backend services and continuous software releases.
๐ผ Why This Role Is Good for Experience?
This opening is particularly relevant for senior automation professionals because the JD focuses on engineering automation frameworks from scratch. That means candidates can potentially work on framework architecture, reusable components, test execution strategy and integration with development pipelines.
The combination of WDIO + Rest Assured also provides exposure to both UI and API automation. CI/CD integration adds another important engineering dimension because automated tests need to become part of the software-delivery lifecycle rather than remaining isolated QA activities.
For someone progressing toward Senior SDET, Automation Lead or Quality Engineering responsibilities, experience in framework design, pipeline integration and scalable automation can become an important part of their professional portfolio.
๐งโ๐ป Skills Required
๐น Web Automation: WebdriverIO, selectors, waits, browser management, synchronization and parallel execution
๐น API Automation: Rest Assured, REST APIs, JSON/XML validation, authentication and request/response handling
๐น Programming: Strong JavaScript/TypeScript or the programming language used with the existing WDIO framework
๐น Framework Design: Page Object Model, reusable utilities, configuration management, test data and reporting
๐น CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar pipeline technologies
๐น Version Control: Git and branching strategies
๐น Testing: Functional, regression, integration, smoke and end-to-end testing
๐น Engineering Practices: Code reviews, debugging, test stability, parallel execution and maintainable automation
๐ฏ Preparation Tips
For this particular JD, don’t prepare only Selenium-style automation questions. Spend significant time on WebdriverIO architecture and framework design. Be prepared to explain how you would create a WDIO framework from an empty repository, organize page objects, manage configuration, handle test data, generate reports and execute tests in parallel.
For Rest Assured, practice creating complete API tests involving authentication, headers, path/query parameters, request bodies, response assertions and JSON schema validation. Understand how you would build reusable API utilities rather than writing independent scripts.
The CI/CD requirement should also receive special attention. Prepare an example showing how your automation suite is triggered from a pipeline, how environments are selected, how test reports are published and how failures are handled.
At senior level, also prepare to discuss flaky-test investigation, test-suite optimization, automation ROI and deciding what should or should not be automated.
๐ Resume Tips
Your resume should immediately highlight 5+ years of automation/SDET experience and the exact technologies mentioned in the JD.
Place WebdriverIO, Rest Assured, UI automation, API automation, framework development and CI/CD near the top of your technical-skills section if they genuinely reflect your experience.
Avoid generic statements such as โworked on automation.โ Instead, quantify your contributions: number of automated scenarios, regression-suite reduction, execution-time improvement, framework adoption, pipeline integration or reduction in flaky tests.
For each major project, describe the framework architecture you contributed to and explain your individual ownership. Senior candidates should also mention mentoring, code reviews, technical decisions and collaboration with developers/product teams.
๐ฐ Salary Range
The hiring post does not disclose the compensation for this specific position. Public salary data provides a broad indication: AmbitionBox estimates Senior SDET Software Engineer compensation at Zepto for 6โ8 years at approximately โน41.9โโน53.5 LPA.
Glassdoor’s Zepto SDET data reports an average base pay around โน20 LPA, with additional pay averaging approximately โน6 LPA across submitted SDET salaries; individual Bengaluru submissions for 4โ6 years show total compensation ranging from โน28 LPA to โน47 LPA.
๐งฉ Expected Interview Rounds at Zepto
๐น Round 1: Recruiter screening and experience discussion
๐น Round 2: Automation technical interview โ WDIO, framework design and testing concepts
๐น Round 3: Coding/API round โ programming and Rest Assured
๐น Round 4: System/framework design and CI/CD discussion
๐น Round 5: Hiring-manager or stakeholder discussion
๐น Final: HR, compensation and joining discussion
๐ฉ How to Apply
๐ฉabhishek184gupta@gmail.com
Interested candidates with 5+ years of relevant SDET/automation experience can share their updated resume directly at:
๐ง abhishek184gupta@gmail.com
Use a subject such as โApplication โ Senior SDET โ 5+ Yearsโ and mention your total experience, current location, notice period and experience with WDIO, Rest Assured, framework development and CI/CD in the email.
๐ If you are an experienced SDET who can design automation frameworks from scratch and integrate UI/API testing into CI/CD pipelines, this Zepto opportunity is worth exploring.
