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

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

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• *THE ROLE**
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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**
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• **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 and the Distinguished Engineer on architecture and testability decisions, and influence testing standards across teams beyond your own squad.
• **Own incidents.** Join the on\-call rotation and own the full incident lifecycle for quality regressions: detection, diagnosis, resolution, and retrospective.

• *SKILLS \& REQUIREMENTS**
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### **Must\-Have**

• **Test framework architecture** — designing automation frameworks from scratch (page object or screenplay patterns, BDD where it fits, parallel execution, reporting) that other engineers extend. You build the platform, not just the scripts.
• **Test automation (SDET\-level)** — Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for UI plus API\-level automation (REST, contract testing). Must automate business\-rule behavior — placement decisions, capacity and eligibility rules, state transitions — not just UI interaction tests.
• **CI/CD quality gates** — integrating test suites into pipelines; defining and enforcing regression gates for a multi\-tenant product used daily by 1,000\+ schools. At this level you own the definition of the bar, not just the tests that check it.
• **Rules\-engine and data\-integrity testing** — designing deterministic test data and fixtures for scheduling, allocation, or eligibility logic; building data utilities that validate rosters, registrations, and attendance across CSV/XML imports, exports, and concurrent edits.
• **Strong programming** — JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python at production quality (TypeScript strongly preferred). Your test code is held to the same review standard as product code.
• **Technical communication** — ability to produce written quality criteria, test strategy and edge\-case documentation, and performance baseline documents that the implementation team, engineering manager, PM, Support, and leadership can act on.
• **Education \& experience** — Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with 6 to 10\+ years of hands\-on SDET / test automation experience.

### **Strongly Preferred**

• **Performance \& concurrency testing** — k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust; modeling burst traffic (thousands of users acting in the same minute) and catching race conditions at capacity limits and sign\-up cutoffs.
• **AI\-assisted test engineering** — using AI tools to generate test scenarios, triage failures, or scale framework adoption across teams.
• **Security \& access\-control testing** — role\-based permissions (student / teacher / admin), multi\-tenant data isolation between districts, and student data privacy expectations.

### **Nice to Have**

• **Mobile test automation** — Appium, Maestro, Detox, or similar for iOS and Android; push notification and device\-fragmentation coverage.
• **Integration testing** — SIS data import/export, rostering sync, single sign\-on, and notification delivery (email, in\-product, push).
• **K\-12 EdTech domain** — understanding of bell schedules, flex and advisory periods, MTSS intervention tiers, and how districts manage SIS data helps design realistic test scenarios.

• *WHO YOU ARE**
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• **You test the edge cases, not just the happy path.** You test the ways the system should fail and doesn't, and you document those cases so the implementation team designs against them.
• **You have built automation frameworks from the ground up — not just inherited them — and other engineers have built on what you designed.**
• **You treat test architecture as a first\-class engineering discipline.** A feature without a regression suite is not finished — and you enforce that standard through CI/CD gates, not just code review comments.
• **You define what "quality" means on a product that decides where students are supposed to be, and produce written criteria that hold the codebase to that standard across every engineer and every release.**
• **You are hands\-on at a senior level** — you still write the framework code, and you raise the bar for everyone who writes tests after you. **Experience shipping product feature code is a bonus, not a requirement.**
• **Your edge\-case documentation and performance baselines are used by the implementation team to make better architecture decisions.** Your influence extends past your own work.
• **You own your area end to end with minimal oversight, and you resolve ambiguity in requirements and design tradeoffs instead of waiting for a fully formed spec.**

• *ABOUT SECURLY**
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• *Tech Giant Scale. EdTech Innovation. Unmatched Student Impact.**

Securly processes over 1\.1 billion requests per day and 54 TB of data daily, protecting more than 20 million students across 20,000\+ schools globally. Since pioneering the first cloud\-based web filter for K–12 in 2013, Securly has built one of the most trusted, high\-scale platforms for student safety, wellness, and engagement.

By turning data into meaningful, actionable intelligence, Securly enables schools to identify risk earlier, reduce harmful incidents, and strengthen student support — driving measurable improvements in student safety and wellbeing at scale.

We are proud to be consistently recognized as a Top Place to Work, named a Top 40 Most Used EdTech platform, and included on the GSV 150 list as one of the most transformational growth companies in digital learning and workforce skills.

• *BENEFITS**
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• Comprehensive Health Insurance (employee, parents, spouse, children)
• Accidental \& Term Life Insurance
• Learning \& Development reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• Public Holidays (10\+ per year)
• Retirement Benefits (EPF \& gratuity)
• Parental Leave (as per statutory norms)

• *EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER**
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Securly is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion, fairness, and respect. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

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