Software Engineer in Test
Nykaa · Posted Oct 1
Beauty, wellness, fashion, and personal care omnichannel retail services
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About the role
Nykaa is seeking an SDET 2 to join its quality engineering team, focused on ensuring customer-facing applications deliver exceptional performance, stability, and user experience. The role covers frontend functional and automation testing across Web, mWeb, Android, and iOS, along with backend services, databases, and API/microservices testing. The engineer will build scalable automated test frameworks using Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack, and CI/CD pipelines, while applying AI-assisted testing tools to accelerate test design, test data generation, and defect analysis.
What you will do
- Perform end-to-end testing of software applications, including both Front-end and Back-end testing.
- Testing on Android / iOS application is mandatory
- Knowledge of Appium and browserstack
- Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test suites for web and apps using Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack and other relevant tools.
- Create and manage test plans, test cases, and regression test coverage.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define test strategies for new features and enhancements and ensure software quality across the development lifecycle.
- Leverage AI-assisted testing tools and Generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate test design, automation development, test data generation, and defect analysis.
- Utilize AI-powered approaches for test case generation, test maintenance, impact analysis, root cause analysis, and regression optimization.
- Evaluate and implement innovative AI-driven quality engineering practices to improve testing productivity, coverage, and release confidence.
- Possess strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases: MySQL, Mongo/Cassandra, Amazon RDS.
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Conduct API and microservices testing using tools like Postman, Newman powered Javascript Frameworks.
- Knowledge of caching concepts to enhance application performance.
- Proficient in the art of prioritization and requirements traceability.
- Pay meticulous attention to detail in identifying defects and issues.
- Contribute to organizational growth by ensuring software excellence and reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience - 4 to 6 years
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Proven experience as an SDET or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in Java / Python, with the ability to adapt to new programming languages.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently.
- Enthusiastic about both front-end and back-end automation.
- Proficiency in Selenium / Appium is mandatory
- Familiarity with performance testing methodologies and tools, including JMeter.
- Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD platforms.
- Comfortable working with Linux servers.
- Knowledge of AWS console and cloud services is a plus.
- Understanding of data pipelines and data testing.
- Ability to prioritize effectively and ensure requirements traceability.
- Strong analytical skills to map test artifacts to business requirements.
- Experience in implementing QA processes, metrics, and working in an Agile environment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Nykaa
Nykaa (FSN E-Commerce Ventures) is a premier Indian omnichannel consumer technology platform specializing in beauty, personal care, and fashion products. Founded by Falguni Nayar, the company operates extensive online e-commerce channels alongside a growing nationwide network of physical retail stores. Nykaa also features an array of in-house private label brands and an eB2B distribution division.
- Industry
- E-commerce
- Company size
- 5001-10000 employees
- Founded
- 2012
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $156.89M raised
- 2022-11-21Post-IPO Secondary$41.08M
- 2022-11-09Post-IPOUndisclosed
- 2020-11-25Secondary MarketUndisclosed
- 2020-06-01Series H$2.61M
- 2020-05-07Series F$8.88M
Leadership
Founder, Executive Chairperson, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Director and CEO, Nykaa Beauty E-Commerce
Executive Director and CEO, Nykaa Fashion
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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