SDET Lead in Chennai, Tennessee at Liven

Join the revolution in hospitality tech!

Nomni is the all-in-one platform built for hospitality operators - bringing POS, payments, ordering, loyalty, procurement, marketing, and data together in one system, with AI at its core.

We exist because hospo tech has been built around what's good for the people providing it, not the people using it. We're changing that. Built by operators, for operators - with 35,000 venues already on the platform across Australia and Southeast Asia.

One platform. One team. One company accountable for the outcomes that matter.

About the role

As a SDET Lead at Nomni, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in shaping our quality engineering practices and automation strategy. You’ll architect and develop testing frameworks, guide engineering teams on testability, and ensure our backend services—built in Express.js (Node.js) and Go—are reliable and scalable. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and the ability to lead both by example and through influence across teams.

What you'll do

• Lead and contribute hands-on to the design, development, and evolution of testing architecture and automation frameworks.
• Architect and implement high-quality automated test suites (unit, integration, contract, and E2E) for Node.js/Express and Go services.
• Ensure automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed within CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed testability into system design and promote high-quality code practices.
• Drive exploratory testing and guide advanced testing efforts for complex, distributed systems.
• Define quality standards, testing strategies, and metrics across engineering teams.
• Mentor SDETs and engineers, uplifting skills and fostering a strong automation and quality culture.
  
  

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in test automation, software engineering, or quality engineering.
• Strong, hands-on programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Go.
• Extensive experience in architecting and scaling automated testing frameworks.
• Proficiency with automated testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, Supertest, Go test, Testify, or Ginkgo.
• Strong experience with E2E tools like Playwright or Cypress.
• Solid understanding of API testing using tools like Postman or REST-assured.
• Strong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD environments.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized test environments.
• Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact).
• Experience with performance testing and profiling methodologies.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Background working with large-scale distributed systems.