Senior SDET (Backend & ML)

What we want to accomplish and why we need you

Suki is a leading technology company that provides AI voice solutions for healthcare. Its mission is to reimagine the healthcare technology stack, making it invisible and assistive to lift the administrative burden from clinicians. Its flagship product is Suki Assistant, an AI assistant that uses generative AI to automatically create clinical documentation by ambiently listening to patient-clinician conversations. Suki helps clinicians complete notes 72% faster on average, assists with other tasks including coding and answering questions, and generates incremental revenue for organizations, delivering a 9X ROI in year 1. Suki also offers its proprietary AI and speech platform, Suki Platform, to partners who want to create best-in-class ambient and voice experiences for their solutions.  Clinicians that use Suki already spend over 70% less time on administrative tasks, and we’re striving to do even better. Come and join us! 

We are a user-driven company and are committed to making sure every pixel of our product is in service of the doctors. We’re a team of technologists, clinicians, and industry experts working together to push the limits on technology used in medicine. We’re confident enough to move fast and talented enough not to break things. Check out this short video to learn more about our mission and our culture.

About the Role:

Suki is creating a new category in the health-tech space: the digital assistant. Our product will be the voice user interface for healthcare. Doctors that use Suki already spend over 70% less time on administrative tasks, and we’re striving to do even better. Come and join us! We are a user-driven company and are committed to making sure every pixel of our product is in service of the doctor. We’re a team of technologists, clinicians, and industry experts working together to push the limits on technology used in medicine. We’re confident enough to move fast and talented enough not to break things.

As an SDET 3 specialising in Backend testing, you will design and build scalable automation frameworks for API testing and microservices, ensuring that our backend services are stable and high-performing. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers to implement testing strategies that ensure robustness and reliability of the entire system. You will play a key role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform, while also mentoring junior team members and driving continuous improvements in our testing processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA Strategy: Design, develop, and own the end-to-end test automation strategy for our backend microservices and ML systems, ensuring high-quality and reliable releases.
• Build Automation Frameworks: Architect and implement scalable test automation frameworks for APIs (gRPC, WebSockets), microservices, and event-driven architectures. You will use technologies like Java and Python and modern testing libraries.
• Drive AI/ML Quality: Develop and execute testing methodologies for AI/ML models and pipelines, focusing on data validation, model performance, and end-to-end quality validation.
• Enhance CI/CD Pipelines: Collaborate with SRE to integrate automated test suites into our CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite). You will help us achieve continuous testing and deliver faster feedback to development teams.
• Mentor and Coach: Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers, providing guidance on automation best practices, code reviews, and career growth.
• Lead Quality Initiatives: Perform root cause analysis for complex backend issues, identify systemic problems, and implement preventative measures to improve overall system stability.
• Advance with AI: Proactively identify and champion opportunities to leverage AI and generative AI tools to improve test case generation, test data management, and test automation efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of experience as an SDET, with a strong focus on backend and API testing.
• Backend Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks for backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Technical Stack: Proficiency in Java or Python and experience with automation tools such as TestNG, Rest Assured, JUnit, and performance testing tools like Locust or K6.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience in testing or validating AI/ML models, pipelines, or data-driven systems is a significant plus. An understanding of prompt engineering and the use of GenAI for testing is highly valued.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS).
• Leadership: Proven experience mentoring other engineers and leading technical projects.

Desired Skills (Good to Have):

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration: Proven ability to integrate AI concepts or tools into end-to-end testing workflow execution.
• AI Mentorship: Experience mentoring peers on the usage of AI-driven testing tools or methodologies.
• AI for Efficiency: Demonstrated capability to identify inefficiencies in existing processes that could be effectively solved or improved using AI technologies.
• Test Coverage Leadership: Ability to lead efforts to improve test coverage and ensure tests are kept up-to-date with changes in the backend services and ML models.

Working at Suki:
Our hybrid model offers the perfect balance of in-office collaboration and remote flexibility which includes three days in the office (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and two days work from home (Thursday and Friday).The role is located in Bangalore and will require working from office three days a week.

Tell me more about Suki

• On a roll: Named by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies, named Google’s Partner of the Year for AI/ML, named by Forbes as one of the top 50 companies in AI .
• Great team: Founded, managed, and backed by successful tech veterans from Google and Apple and medical leaders from UCSF and Stanford. We have technologists and doctors working side-by-side to solve complex problems.
• Great investors: We’re backed by Venrock, First Round Capital, Flare Capital, March Capital, Hedosophia and others. With our $165M raised so far, we have the resources to scale.
• Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $30+ billion market for transcription, dictation, and order-entry solutions. Our vision is to become the voice user interface for healthcare, relieving the administrative burden on doctors instead of adding to it.
• Great customers: Our solutions are used in health systems and clinics across the country, supporting clinicians across dozens of specialties.  Check out what one of our users says about how Suki has helped his practice.
• Impact: You’ll make an impact from day one. You’ll join a team working towards a shared purpose with a culture built upon deep empathy for doctors and passion for making their lives better. 

Suki is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to building a company that fosters inclusion and belonging and reflects the diverse communities we serve across the country. We know we are stronger this way, and we look forward to growing our team with these shared values.