Engineering Manager, SDET
Eightfold
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced SDET Manager to lead and grow our test engineering team. As a first-line manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of our AI-driven SaaS products. You will work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to drive best practices in test automation, quality strategy, and release readiness.
This is an opportunity to build and lead a world-class quality engineering team in a cutting-edge technology company.
What you will learn to do:
- Lead and mentor a team of SDETs and QA Engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables across multiple product lines.
- Define and implement the overall test strategy, automation frameworks, and quality best practices for SaaS-based applications.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure test coverage, automation-first approach, and seamless CI/CD integration.
- Own release quality metrics, continuously improving reliability, scalability, and performance testing processes.
- Drive adoption of modern testing tools and frameworks (UI/API automation, performance, security, and data quality testing).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify quality gaps, reduce defect leakage, and improve release velocity.
- Establish and monitor KPIs for the QE function, including automation coverage, defect trends, and release stability.
- Hire, coach, and grow top-quality engineering talent.
What we look for :
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation, with at least 2+ years in a leadership/managerial role.
- Strong expertise in test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, JUnit, TestNG, PyTest, etc.).
- Hands-on experience in programming/scripting (Java, Python, JavaScript, or similar).
- Proven track record in testing SaaS-based enterprise products (preferably in large-scale, data-intensive domains).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Cursor or similar, to accelerate automation/coding workflows.
- Exposure to performance testing, security testing, and test data management.
- Excellent people management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
About Us:
Eightfold AI doesn’t just organize data — we understand people. As pioneers of the world’s most innovative AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform, we combine enterprise data, market insights, and user interactions to create a complete picture of talent across the entire employment life cycle, providing an end-to-end experience that includes hiring, development, and retention. A third of our customers are from Fortune 500 companies and have relied on us to move faster and more strategically than the competition. Our platform is guiding our customers through the greatest work acceleration in history by unlocking the power of people and showing them how partnering with AI can unleash unlimited potential.
We secured a $220M Series E funding round, led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund in June 2021. Thus, we’ve raised more than $400 million in funding to date. We’re valued at over $2 billion.
Our customers- https://eightfold.ai/customers/
Press- https://eightfold.ai/press/
You may want to refer to the media coverage on TechCrunch and Reuters.
Founders:
Eightfold Engineering Values:
We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in the work you are doing, and see the positive impact of your work on your colleagues, our customers, and people around the world. We have a mindset of continuously improving. There is no detail that is beneath us, and we can dive into anything needed. We focus on executing fast and delivering value to our customers every single day. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career.