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Quality Engineer-SDET

IBM Hyderabad, Telangana, India

hybridfull-time
Posted Feb 23, 2026Apply by Mar 25, 2026

Role & seniority: Quality Engineer (SDET); seniority not explicitly stated

Stack/tools: Test automation frameworks across UI, API, Services, Data; multi-technology automation (mobile, devices, browsers, client-server, microservices, containers); DevOps integration and automated reporting

Top 3 responsibilities

  • Design and develop test automation solutions and frameworks across application layers

  • Develop optimized test scenarios and code them for automated execution and reporting

  • Troubleshoot and debug automation issues; optimize solutions for performance and scalability; maintain test environments

Must-have skills

  • Experience designing and developing multi-layer test automation (UI, API, services, data)

  • Cross-technology automation across mobile, devices, browsers, client-server, microservices, containers

  • Ability to design optimized test scenarios, identify test cases, and integrate with DevOps pipelines

  • Automation troubleshooting and performance/scalability optimization

  • Test data and environment maintenance

Nice-to-haves

  • Cross-functional collaboration to align automation with business needs and standards

  • Knowledge of industry standards alignment for test automation

  • Familiarity with multi-layer architecture design in automation

  • Location & work type: Not specified

Full Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer: SDET, you will design and develop test automation solutions and frameworks to ensure high-quality software delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure automation solutions meet business needs and are aligned with industry standards. Your primary responsibilities will include

Design Automation Solutions: Design and develop test automation solutions and frameworks across multiple layers of the application architecture, including UI, API, Services, and Data, to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Develop Test Scenarios: Understand functional requirements, design optimized test scenarios, identify test cases, and code them to be integrated with application code and DevOps pipeline for automated execution and reporting.

Troubleshoot Automation Issues: Troubleshoot and debug automation issues, and optimize automation solutions for performance and scalability to ensure reliable and efficient testing.

Maintain Test Environments: Develop and maintain test data and test environments to support automated testing, ensuring accurate and reliable test results.

Analyze Test Results: Analyze test results and provide insights to stakeholders to improve software quality and reduce defects, driving business value through data-driven decision-making.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Test Automation Development: Exposure to designing and developing test automation solutions and frameworks across multiple layers of application architecture, including UI, API, Services, and Data.

Multi-Technology Automation: Experience working with automation testing across various technologies, such as Mobile, Devices, Browsers, Client-server, Micro-Services, and Containers.

Test Scenario Optimization: Exposure to understanding functional requirements, designing optimized test scenarios, identifying test cases, and coding them for automated execution and reporting.

Automation Troubleshooting: Experience working with troubleshooting and debugging automation issues, and optimizing automation solutions for performance and scalability.

Test Environment Maintenance: Exposure to developing and maintaining test data and test environments to support automated testing.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Multi-Layered Architecture Knowledge: Exposure to designing and developing test automation solutions and frameworks across multiple layers of application architecture, including UI, API, Services, and Data, to deliver high-quality software.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams to ensure automation solutions meet business needs and are aligned with industry standards, driving business value through collaboration.

Industry Standards Alignment: Exposure to aligning automation solutions with industry standards, ensuring compliance and best practices in test automation development.

Test Automation DevelopmentUI TestingAPI TestingServices TestingData TestingMobile AutomationDevice AutomationBrowser AutomationClient-Server AutomationMicro-Services TestingContainer TestingTest Scenario DesignDevOps Pipeline IntegrationAutomation TroubleshootingPerformance OptimizationScalability Optimizationmulti-location

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