Senior SDET – Automation Framework Architect (Playwright, Selenium, API, CI/CD)

THE ROLE

Own test strategy, quality architecture, and the automated regression infrastructure for Securly Flex — the flex period scheduling and attendance platform that 1,000+ schools use every school day to place students into intervention, enrichment, and support sessions.

Flex decides where students are supposed to be. A defect in Autoassign placement, capacity limits, separation rules, roster sync, or attendance recording does not just break a feature — it can put a student in the wrong room, leave a must-attend intervention empty, place students together who are required to be kept apart, or send inaccurate attendance into a district's student information system. The test infrastructure you build is the last line of defense before production.

This is an engineering leadership role, not a QA role. You will define what "production-ready" means for Flex, build the automation platform that enforces it through CI/CD quality gates, and write production-quality code for that platform yourself. You will also serve as the team's expert on rules-engine correctness and edge-case testing — your understanding of how Flex's rules interact (priorities, capacity limits, restricted sessions, sign-up cutoffs, and check-in controls) directly shapes both the test suite and the implementation team's design decisions.

Location: Pune, India (Hybrid – 2 days onsite)
Experience: 6–10+ years
Reports to: Director of Quality Engineering

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the quality bar. Define what "passing" means for Flex: establish written quality criteria covering scheduling correctness, data integrity, access control, and performance that gate production releases.
• Test the rules engine. Design and implement automated test suites covering Autoassign placement logic — student choice, teacher priority, must-attend assignments, rostered and restricted sessions, at-risk designations, seat and room capacity, separation (contact control) rules, conflict detection, and the guarantee that manual registrations are never overwritten — plus the edge cases around them: conflicting rules, boundary conditions, concurrent registrations at capacity limits and sign-up cutoffs, API calls that skip UI validation, and permission boundaries.
• Gate every release. Build CI/CD quality gates that prevent regressions from reaching production; own the pipeline configuration and ensure the quality bar is enforced, not advisory.
• Set performance baselines. Measure and establish written performance baselines for peak-load moments: sign-up windows opening and closing, Autoassign runs before each flex period, and attendance taking across thousands of concurrent users; define the thresholds that constitute a performance regression.
• Cover web, mobile, and integrations. Own end-to-end coverage across web, mobile, and integrations: student, teacher, and admin workflows; the student mobile app; email, in-product, and push notifications; roster imports and attendance exports to the SIS; and the shared rostering and single sign-on Flex runs on with Securly Pass.
• Build the framework. Architect and build the Flex automation framework: reusable libraries, test data utilities for roster and attendance files, parallel execution, and reporting that the whole team extends — and contribute fixes to product code where it improves testability.
• Mentor and scale. Mentor engineers on test architecture as a first-class discipline, and bring AI-assisted tooling into how the team generates scenarios, triages failures, and scales coverage.
• Shape architecture. Partner with your technical lead