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# Senior SDET at Propel Software Solutions

- **Company:** Propel Software Solutions
- **Location:** Thiruvananthapuram, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/propelsoftware/4c00c1da-bdcb-4b24-a250-838556b92adb

## Job description

## COMPANY

Propel Software transforms the way product companies work. Our product value management platform connects commercial and product teams to optimize decision making, drive process efficiencies, and engage customers with compelling products and experiences. Propel has a proven track record of improving product quality, speeding time to revenue and profit, and improving customer satisfaction. Recognized as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner and one of Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America, Propel is built on Salesforce and drives product success for hyper growth startups, corporate pioneers, and Fortune 500 leaders in the high tech, medtech and consumer goods industries.

## ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who treats quality engineering as a software engineering discipline.

This role is for a deeply technical engineer who intentionally applies strong development skills to product quality, reliability, and delivery confidence. You will own quality engineering for complex features and product areas: shaping test strategy, building durable automation, validating integrations and real user workflows, and improving the speed and trustworthiness of delivery feedback.

The ideal candidate is an accomplished engineer who has intentionally chosen quality engineering because they care about reliability, customer experience, and preventing failures—not merely detecting them. They write clean, maintainable production-quality code; understand how modern systems fail; and use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to improve test design, implementation, debugging, and analysis. They also understand that AI does not replace test strategy, domain reasoning, independent validation, or engineering accountability.

This is a hands-on quality engineering role: automation and test-platform engineering are core to how we scale quality, but you will also personally perform functional and exploratory testing when needed to understand the product, validate risk, and support release decisions.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an in-office position located in Trivandrum, requiring attendance 4+ days per week. By submitting your application, you confirm that you are either presently located in Trivandrum or prepared to relocate. Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

In this role you can expect to

- Lead with quality judgment: Challenge requirements and assumptions; distinguish verification (does it work as specified?) from validation (does it solve the user problem?); identify failure modes, edge cases, and business risks beyond happy paths.

- Test from the customer’s perspective: Map real user workflows, anticipate misuse and operational edge cases, and assess real-world impact; partner early with Product and Engineering to refine acceptance criteria and prevent defects.

- Design risk-based test strategy: Select the right mix of unit, API, contract, integration, UI, end-to-end, exploratory, regression, and non-functional testing based on product risk, feedback speed, confidence needs, and maintenance cost.

- Build durable quality engineering systems: Create reusable tooling, libraries, test-data capabilities, environment utilities, CI integrations, and diagnostic/observability patterns that improve quality for the team and can be adopted by adjacent teams.

- Perform hands-on product investigation: Conduct functional and exploratory testing of complex workflows, integrations, and edge cases when it provides the fastest or highest-confidence signal; translate discoveries into clear defects, risk assessments, and durable automated coverage where appropriate.

- Lead quality-risk decisions: Identify, analyze, and prioritize product risks; derive test conditions and appropriate coverage depth; communicate residual risk and help the team decide what “good enough” means for each release.

To be successful in this role you bring:

- 7-10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, SDET, quality engineering, developer productivity, or test-platform engineering, including 5+ years building and evolving automation or test infrastructure.

- Evidence of owning an automation framework, test platform, internal developer tool, CI quality gate, or engineering system from architecture through adoption, operational support, and iterative improvement.

- Experience testing modern systems beyond a single web UI: APIs, asynchronous workflows, distributed services, event-driven systems, data flows, third-party integrations, authentication/authorization, and failure recovery.

- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript preferred, with the ability to explain trade-offs among UI, API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, resilience, and exploratory testing.

- Experience making automated testing trustworthy at scale: parallelization, isolation, deterministic test data, environment provisioning, observability, flaky-test diagnosis, retry policy design, quarantine/remediation workflows, and actionable reporting.

- Strong CI/CD experience, including test selection or test-tiering strategies, PR quality gates, artifact collection, failure triage, and reducing feedback time without weakening coverage.

- Ability to design and validate APIs and service boundaries using techniques such as schema validation, consumer/provider contract testing, mocks/stubs/fakes, service virtualization, and backward-compatibility testing.

Quality Mindset & Product Thinking

- Clearly articulates and applies the difference between verification and validation, with examples of when each shaped their test approach and delivery decisions.

- Proven ability to analyze requirements and designs to uncover gaps, ambiguous behavior, and high-risk areas before implementation, using reviews, checklists, and structured quality risk analysis.

- Demonstrated skill in designing tests around real user journeys, business workflows, and failure scenarios rather than just API endpoints or UI components in isolation.

- Experience using risk-based testing to prioritize which areas to test, at what depth, and with which techniques when time and resources are constrained.

- Habitually challenges assumptions from developers, PMs, and stakeholders in a collaborative way that improves the product and reduces downstream defects.

- Ensures test failures produce useful evidence—logs, network traces, screenshots/video where relevant, and clear failure classification.

Nice to haves:

- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent to accelerate coding, refactoring, test design, failure analysis, documentation, and exploratory investigation.

- Demonstrated ability to evaluate AI-generated test code for correctness, determinism, maintainability, meaningful assertions, security/privacy implications, and false confidence.

Authorization to work in India is required; please note that at this time, Propel is not sponsoring visas for any positions.

Additional Info Location: This is an in office position located in Trivandrum.

Equal Opportunity: Propel is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace where different perspectives are valued and every voice is heard. We’re dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.

## About Propel Software Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Propel Software provides a unified AI-powered Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Quality Management (QMS), and Product Information Management (PIM) platform to connect product and commercial teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, last round in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in current sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) / Enterprise Software / Manufacturing Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – discrete manufacturers in high-tech, medtech, and consumer goods (from startups to Fortune 500)
- **Mission statement**: “Help product companies win customers for life.” [propelsoftware.com](https://www.propelsoftware.com/)

## Products & Services
- **[Propel PLM]**: Product Lifecycle Management – manages product data, BOMs, change processes, and collaboration across engineering, marketing, and sales. SaaS on Salesforce.
- **[Propel QMS]**: Quality Management System – drives continuous quality improvements, compliance, and safer products.
- **[Propel PIM]**: Product Information Management – unifies product data for commercial teams to deliver compelling omnichannel experiences.
- **[Supplier Community]**: Platform to protect IP, ensure quality, and accelerate launches through supplier collaboration.
- **[Propel One / Agentic AI]**: AI-powered agents embedded in the product thread to automate workflows, analyze data, and improve productivity. [propelsoftware.com](https://www.propelsoftware.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$80M (est.) | Total Funding $48.2M (Series C of $20M led by Ankona Capital Partners and Salesforce Ventures in 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ankona Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Cloud Apps Capital Partners
- **Growth Signals**: 3× Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner; named “Strong Performer” in Forrester Wave for PLM; headcount ~89 (slight decline YoY) but active hiring (5 open roles); recognized by Fortune as America’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Combines PLM, QMS, and PIM on a single Salesforce-native platform – unique in the market.
- **Agentic AI built-in**: AI is not bolted on but integral to the product thread, enabling role-based agents with data privacy guarantees.
- **Proven enterprise adoption**: Used by both hyper-growth startups and Fortune 500, with a strong track record in regulated industries (medtech).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first product thread**: Deepening agentic AI capabilities to automate decision-making across the value chain.
- **Expanding industry verticals**: Growing footprint in high-tech, medtech, and consumer goods.
- **Partner ecosystem**: Leveraging Salesforce as a distribution channel and investing in strategic alliances. [propelsoftware.com](https://www.propelsoftware.com/about-us)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values individuality, curiosity, and growth mindset. Offers paid volunteering time (24 hours/year) and educational benefits.
- **Work policy**: Mix of on-site (HQ in Redwood City, office in Santa Clara), remote (Bay Area), and on-site in Thiruvananthapuram, India for certain roles. [jobs.lever.co/propelsoftware](https://jobs.lever.co/propelsoftware)
- **Perks**: Health & finance benefits, top technology tools, professional development stipends.
- **Engineering culture**: Technical roles make up ~20% of the workforce. Small company feel with exposure to full product lifecycle.
- **Employee rating**: 4.8/5 on LinkedIn (25 reviews) with high marks for culture (4.7) and compensation (4.7). [linkedin.com/company/propelsoftware](https://linkedin.com/company/propelsoftware)

## Sources
1. [Propel Software – About Us](https://www.propelsoftware.com/about-us)
2. [Propel Software – Homepage](https://www.propelsoftware.com/)
3. [Propel Software – Careers](https://www.propelsoftware.com/careers)
4. [Propel Software – Job Openings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/propelsoftware)
5. [Propel Software – LinkedIn Page](https://linkedin.com/company/propelsoftware)

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