Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (Sr. SDET)

Location: Bengaluru, KA, in

Company Description

About Us

Finmo’s cloud-native platform is designed to eliminate the complexities of global payments and financial operations. Our next-generation Treasury Operating System (TOS) empowers global enterprises to seamlessly collect funds, make payments, manage cash flow and liquidity, mitigate financial risks, and ensure compliance—all within a unified interface.

Our mission is to revolutionize treasury operations by simplifying payments, automating essential financial functions, and empowering businesses to transact using the most efficient methods that optimize speed, convenience, and cost-effectiveness.

Built upon real-time payment networks, Finmo facilitates instant fund transfers, precise cash flow forecasting, optimized liquidity management, robust financial risk mitigation, and effortless regulatory compliance. By integrating these critical functions into a single, innovative platform, Finmo sets a new benchmark for financial technology solutions, ensuring clients achieve financial stability and sustained success beyond traditional fund transfers.

Founded in 2021, Finmo is headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Australia and India, and plans for further global expansion. We are a venture-backed company, supported by prominent investors, including Quona Capital, PayPal Ventures, and Citi Ventures. Our founding team comprises seasoned payment professionals with over two decades of experience in building global payment infrastructures and companies.

At Finmo, we are committed to upholding core values such as transparency, integrity, effective communication, continuous learning, data-driven decision-making, and customer-centricity. We foster a culture that encourages thoughtful risk-taking and problem-solving, aiming to balance perfection with timely execution.

For more information, please visit our website at www.finmo.net

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

As a Senior SDET at Finmo, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, scaling, and leading test

automation initiatives to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our web and API-driven

fintech products. In addition to being hands-on with automation frameworks, you will mentor junior

QAs and SDETs and lead a small team to drive best practices across quality engineering.

• Provide technical aspects in test automation strategy, framework design, and tool selection.
• Own the quality and reliability of high-impact fintech features across web and API platforms.
• Design, develop, and scale robust automation frameworks for Web and API testing.
• Build internal QA tools and accelerators to improve testing speed, coverage, and efficiency.
• Create, maintain, and execute automated test suites for functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design teams within Agile sprints to identify risks early and prevent defects.
• Leverage AI tools and techniques to simulate real-world scenarios, improve test coverage, and proactively detect issues.
• Troubleshoot and debug automation scripts to ensure clean, maintainable, and reusable code.
• Work with Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured, Appium using Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and enforce test quality gates.
• Perform API automation, database validations (SQL), and exploratory testing as needed.
• Champion shift-left and automation-first approaches to maximize efficiency and reduce defects.
• Explore and contribute to performance testing using tools like JMeter or k6.
• Advocate for quality across the organization, influencing development processes, coding practices, and release readiness.
• Lead and mentor a small team of QAs and SDETs, guiding them on automation design, code quality, and best practices.

  Preferred Skills

• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter or k6.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) or microservices infrastructure.
• Hands-on knowledge of version control tools like Git and test tools like JIRA.
• Understanding of non-functional testing metrics, including performance, scalability, and high availability.
• Certifications like ISTQB, CSTE, or equivalent (optional but advantageous).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in test automation (web and API) within fintech, banking, payments, or SaaS.
• Strong proficiency in a programming language: Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium or RestAssured.
• Practical knowledge of SQL for backend validation.
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC, STLC and Agile practices.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and communication skills.

Additional Information

Location:

• Bangalore, India based (On site)

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career with Finmo!

We’re proud to be an inclusive, people-first workplace that values people and is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. Submissions by recruitment agencies will not be accepted. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you once again for your interest in the role.