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title: 'Lead SDET – (India) at Welo Global'
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# Lead SDET – (India) at Welo Global

- **Company:** Welo Global
- **Location:** India
- **Compensation:** $17/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/weloglobal/98695530-c288-4bc0-b040-0d17cf6efa14

## Job description

## Overview

We are seeking a Lead SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to provide end-to-end technical governance across all QA layers - frontend, middleware, and backend - for a complex, multi-layered onboarding platform. This role owns the architecture of API contract testing and the data modeling of complex entity relationships (e.g., hierarchical/parent-child style structures), while ensuring that quality assumptions made at one layer (such as client-side validation) are independently verified at every downstream layer rather than trusted at face value. The ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with the ability to set and enforce delivery governance across cross-functional teams.

Main Responsibilities

- Provide technical governance across frontend, middleware, and backend testing layers
- Establish and enforce QA delivery standards, evidence requirements, review processes, and quality gates
- Review frontend constraint dictionaries and FSM/state-model outputs for completeness and consistency
- Review API schema reconstructions, network evidence, and tracer replay outputs for technical quality and traceability
- Coordinate with QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations Associates to align technical execution with delivery timelines
- Review test architecture decisions, validation approaches, and coverage strategies
- Coordinate dependency resolution, evidence rework, and cross-layer reconciliation throughout the engagement
- Act as the escalation point for cross-layer technical discrepancies and evidence-quality issues
- Compile and quality-check the raw technical evidence dossiers produced by the workstreams
- Identify evidence gaps, inconsistencies, or areas requiring rework before handoff to client stakeholders
- Report on delivery health, technical risks, evidence quality, dependencies, and unresolved gaps
- Prepare the technical evidence package for handoff to the client team responsible for final modelling and logic-gap assessment
- Support technical readout preparation by ensuring that findings are traceable to empirical evidence

Project Details

- Title: Lead SDET
- Start Date: 26th October
- Duration: 4 Months
- Location: India (Remote)
- Job Type: Contractual (with the possibility of a Full-time employment extension based on performance and project needs)

## Qualifications

- Proven experience of 8+ years in a QA leadership role spanning multiple testing layers (frontend, middleware, backend)
- Demonstrated expertise in API contract testing architecture and governance
- Practical experience with knowledge graph or entity-relationship data modeling and its application to test/data traceability
- Strong understanding of layered system architectures and the importance of independently verifying quality at each layer rather than relying on upstream assumptions
- Strong track record of technical delivery governance, including setting standards and quality gates
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication skills
- Deep technical grounding across QA disciplines (manual, automation, systems-level testing) to credibly guide teams at every layer
- Experience mentoring or managing SDETs and QA Analysts
- Experience leading complex multi-week technical QA, API validation, or security-assessment engagements is strongly preferred
- Experience establishing evidence/traceability models across complex technical workflows is preferred
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, entity-relationship models, or structured technical dependency/evidence modeling is preferred; deep knowledge-graph engineering expertise is not required
- Ability to synthesize technical evidence into concise stakeholder-ready findings and handoff materials

#L1-CC1

Why join Welo Data? ✨ Limitless Flexibility: Work on projects that fit your schedule while collaborating with a global leader in AI data services and localization. 🌱 Limitless Growth: Apply your skills, access diverse content types, develop through structured learning, and explore career paths that can lead to permanent roles. 🌍 Limitless Support: Be part of a global community with real-time assistance from our Community Experience team.

How to Apply? Apply now by answering a few quick questions to join our database and become part of our growing community.

We can’t wait to meet you!

## About Welo Data

Welo Data, part of Welocalize, is a global AI data company with 500,000+ contributors delivering high-quality, ethical data to train the world’s most advanced AI systems. We’re building smarter, more human AI with a diverse community in 100+ countries.

At Welo Data, Limitless AI. Limitless You. isn’t just a slogan—it’s our promise. We build smarter AI through the power of human contribution, offering limitless opportunities for our global community to grow, contribute, and work on their terms.

## About Welo Global

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Welo Global delivers enterprise localization, AI training data, multilingual content, and intellectual property solutions through a portfolio of specialized global brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (global operations across multiple countries)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest known employee joined in 2002)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Language Services, Localization, AI Training Data, Intellectual Property, Digital Marketing, Life Sciences
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise localization teams, AI/ML labs, law firms and corporate legal departments, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, global marketing teams
- **Mission or purpose**: To help organizations operate and scale globally by combining human expertise with advanced AI and technology, while fostering sustainability and inclusion.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Welocalize**: AI-enabled multilingual content and localization solutions for enterprises, powered by the Opal Platform (an agentic system orchestrating AI, automation, and human expertise). Serves localization teams in 300+ languages.
- **Welo Data**: Multilingual data generation, evaluation, and human data infrastructure for AI systems. Provides a network of 500,000+ vetted experts and a proprietary quality framework (NIMO™). Supports foundation labs and enterprises deploying GenAI.
- **Park IP**: Global IP solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, including patent translation, foreign filing, and litigation support. Uses the Legal Studio platform for portfolio management.
- **Welo Life Sciences**: Specialized language solutions for highly regulated industries (clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, medical devices). Includes translation, linguistic validation, and regulatory content services.
- **Adapt**: Multilingual digital performance marketing agency. Offers paid search, SEO, programmatic, paid social, and content marketing. Uses Adapt Studio, a translation platform built for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 2,000 clients in 300+ languages; employs a network of 500,000+ linguists and domain experts
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Holds 7 ISO certifications (including ISO 14001 for environmental management)
  - Voluntarily discloses carbon emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3)
  - Actively expanding AI training data and GenAI evaluation services
  - LinkedIn reports 35 employees (likely corporate HQ), while the careers page lists over 1,500 corporate jobs globally – indicating a much larger workforce

## Competitive Advantages
- **Portfolio of specialized brands** – each brand targets a distinct, regulated vertical with deep expertise and fit-for-purpose technology.
- **Massive global network** – 500,000+ vetted linguists and domain experts across 300+ languages.
- **AI-first technology** – Proprietary platforms (Opal, NIMO, Adapt Studio, Legal Studio) that integrate generative AI, automation, and human judgment.
- **Compliance and security** – 7 ISO certifications (including ISO 14001) and a strong focus on data security, ethical AI, and sustainability.
- **Longevity and scale** – Established over 20 years with a track record of serving Fortune 500 and Am Law 100 clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI training data and evaluation** – Growing its Welo Data brand to support foundation labs and enterprises deploying GenAI, with a focus on safety, bias mitigation, and cross-lingual reliability.
- **Product-led innovation** – Enhancing the Opal Platform and other agentic systems to automate multilingual content workflows.
- **Sustainability** – Maintaining ISO 14001 certification, voluntarily reporting carbon emissions, and expanding the Give Grant program for employee-selected charities.
- **Global scalability** – Continuing to build a diverse, remote-friendly workforce across 8+ countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture** – Many positions are work-from-home; the company emphasizes global teamwork and flexibility.
- **Diversity and inclusion** – “Come as you are” motto; active Give Grant program for employee-funded donations; commitment to hiring a diverse workforce.
- **Sustainability focus** – ISO 14001 certified, with voluntary carbon disclosure and environmental initiatives.
- **Career growth** – Opportunities across 1,500+ corporate roles worldwide in localization, AI, technology, marketing, and legal services.
- **Learning environment** – Continuous learning encouraged; access to cutting-edge AI and multilingual technologies.

## Sources
1. [weloglobal.com](https://www.weloglobal.com/company/)
2. [weloglobal.com](https://www.weloglobal.com/company/careers/)
3. [weloglobal.com](https://www.weloglobal.com/portfolio/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/welo-global)
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/weloglobal)

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