Software Engineer in Test

About the Role

As the SDET for Backend at Aspora, youll own the quality strategy, reliability benchmarks, and automation frameworks behind our banking, payments, and core financial systems. Youll work closely with backend engineers, SREs, mobile SDETs, and product teams to ensure every release is robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant. This role is highly impactful. Youll shape how we test distributed systems, validate data integrity, and future-proof our platform for scale.

What Youll Own

• Build and scale automation frameworks for REST APIs, microservices, event streams, and backend workflows.
• Define and execute E2E test strategies across APIs, message queues, cron jobs, and data pipelines.
• Develop test utilities, mocks, and stubs for upstream/downstream services and external integrations.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) for continuous feedback loops.
• Implement contract and data-driven testing to ensure backward compatibility and schema integrity.
• Run non-functional tests (performance, chaos, resiliency) to validate backend stability under scale.
• Use observability platforms (Coralogix, Grafana, Kibana) to detect regressions and enforce SLAs.
• Partner with engineering to define quality metrics, perform RCA on incidents, and prevent future failures.
• Enhance frameworks using AI-driven techniques for dynamic test coverage, flakiness detection, and test optimization.

What We Need

• 47 years in SDET/QA roles focused on backend platforms and distributed systems.
• Strong programming proficiency in Java or Python with solid grounding in OOP and clean code.
• Hands-on experience with REST Assured, TestNG, or custom backend test frameworks.
• Strong understanding of API contracts, async workflows (queues, pub/sub), and event-driven systems.
• Experience integrating test suites within CI/CD pipelines and managing staging/test environments.
• Proficient in debugging using API gateways, logs, and observability tools like Grafana/Kibana/Coralogix.
• Exposure to performance/load testing using JMeter, Locust, or K6.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases, Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ, and AWS/cloud-native ecosystems.
• Clear communication, strong analytical thinking, and ability to work in cross-functional engineering squads.

Who You Are

• You are obsessed with stability, reliability, and catching edge cases before users do.
• You think like an engineer, test like a hacker, and debug like an investigator.
• You love improving systems, not just testing them.
• Youre proactive, opinionated about quality, and not afraid to challenge assumptions.
• You thrive in environments where ownership is high and ambiguity is real.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in high-availability, transaction-heavy systems (fintech/payments).
• Exposure to chaos engineering or resilience testing.
• Contributions to testing frameworks or open-source tools.
• Prior experience in fast-paced startups.

Why Join Aspora?

• Build and influence the reliability layer of a global fintech reshaping banking for the diaspora.
• Design automation foundations that scale across products, markets, and engineering squads.
• Own mission-critical backend quality systems with high visibility and impact.
• Work with top-tier engineers, product leaders, and platform teams.
• High-growth role with rapid career progression as we scale across India, UAE, UK, US, and beyond.
• Competitive salary + meaningful ESOPs aligned with Asporas long-term mission.