Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior SDET to test the resilience and correctness of distributed backend systems supporting a high-stakes account provisioning and onboarding workflow. This role is focused on the execution of pre-approved, benign tracer/replay scenarios against staging endpoints, analysis of request/response behaviour, and documentation of observable account/CID lifecycle and downstream state behaviour.

The ideal candidate has strong distributed-systems and API-testing experience and maintains disciplined technical evidence capture and traceability.

This role is not intended to perform unrestricted adversarial testing. Testing activities will be limited to approved staging environments and pre-approved benign scenarios.

Project Details

Title: Senior SDET Rate: $13.5/hr Start Date: 19th October Duration: 5 Weeks Commitment: 33 Hours per Week Location: India (Remote) Job Type: Freelance

Responsibilities

• Analyze distributed system APIs to validate correctness, consistency, and failure handling across services involved in account creation, data persistence, and related record-linking • Execute pre-approved request variations and boundary-validation scenarios using sanitized tracer payloads against designated staging endpoints. • Investigate system behavior under malformed, malicious, or unexpected inputs and document findings clearly • Capture complete request/response evidence, including HTTP status codes, latency, headers, and payload bodies,…