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Cornerstone OnDemand

SDET

🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Quality Assurance 🗓️ October 30th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is hiring an SDET. The software development engineer in test leads quality engineering for the company’s AI technologies built on AWS, Claude, and other generative AI tools, designing automated test frameworks and suites that validate AI models and intelligent automation solutions before release. The role partners with engineering, product, platform, and data engineering teams from the Hyderabad office.

Highlights
  • Design and build test automation frameworks for AI backend and frontend services on AWS, covering API contract testing, load and performance testing, and deployment validation for AI models.
  • Own quality end to end, from test strategy and automated regression and integration suites to CI/CD test pipeline integration and production quality monitoring and alerting.
  • Validate retrieval quality for the RAG architecture on Weaviate, including relevance testing for hybrid vector and keyword search, ingestion pipeline data integrity, and semantic cache correctness.
  • Join architecture discussions and design reviews with engineering, product, platform, and data engineering teams to bring a quality lens to new features.
  • Perform manual and exploratory testing where automation is not feasible or sufficient.
  • Bring 2-4 years of experience automating tests for backend services in Java or Python and for frontends in JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Understand REST API testing, distributed systems, async programming, and test strategy for service-oriented architectures.
  • Test modern web UIs with component-level testing and end-to-end browser automation, and test systems with LLM integrations across backend and user-facing AI features.
  • Nice to have: exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP, experience with prompt engineering or experimenting with LLMs, and personal projects involving AI.
  • Work office-based from Hyderabad.

SDET Full Description

Cornerstone OnDemand is looking for a motivated SDET who will lead the quality engineering for our outgoing AI technologies using AWS, Claude and other Generative AI tools. You will be responsible for designing and building automated test frameworks and suites that validate our intelligent automation solutions, AI models and custom Gen AI, ensuring they are released with high quality and reliability across the organizations of the world.

In this role, you will…
  • Design and build test automation frameworks for our AI backend & frontend services on AWS, covering API contract testing, load/performance testing and deployment validation for AI models.
  • Own quality end-to-end: test strategy, automated regression and integration suites, CI/CD test pipeline integration and production quality monitoring/alerting.
  • Validate retrieval quality for our RAG architecture on Weaviate, including relevance testing for hybrid vector, keyword search, ingestion pipeline data integrity and semantic cache correctness.
  • Partner with engineering, product, platform and data engineering teams in architecture discussions and design review, bringing quality lens to new features.
  • Perform manual and exploratory testing for scenarios where automation isn’t feasible or sufficient.

You’ve Got What It Takes If You Have…
  • 2-4 years of experience in automation testing backend services in Java or Python and JavaScript or TypeScript for frontend.
  • Solid understanding of REST API testing, distributed systems, async programming and test strategy for service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience testing modern web UIs, component level testing and end-to-end browser automation.
  • Experience testing systems with LLM integrations across backend and user-facing AI features.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals.

Nice to Have:
  • Exposure to cloud platforms, AWS or Azure or GCP.
  • Experience with prompt engineering or experimenting with LLMs.
  • Personal projects involving AI.
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This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office.

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. We are proud to be an EOE Protected Veterans/Disability workplace and an affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].