Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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About the Team

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our QA team in a hybrid role that balances hands-on functional testing with test automation development. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys digging into product behavior validating features end-to-end and steadily growing their automation expertise.

You will work closely with developers product managers QAs and other SDETs to ensure features are delivered with high quality and confidence.

Ideal candidate should have:

• Strong experience in functional regression and exploratory testing with solid feature-level coverage.

• Hands-on experience designing building and maintaining automated tests using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.

• Strong debugging skills to analyze failures find root causes and support timely fixes.

• Proactively learns new QA/automation practices and suggests incremental improvements.

• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams in a remote/distributed environment.

About You

Responsibilities:

• Perform thorough testing to validate new features and enhancements.

• Design develop and maintain automated tests using JavaScript/TypeScript-based frameworks.

• Collaborate with developers and product managers to understand requirements and define test coverage.

• Identify debug and report defects clearly including root cause analysis where possible.

• Assist in triaging test failures and addressing flaky or unstable tests.

• Participate in code reviews and QA discussions to improve test quality and consistency.

• Document test scenarios edge cases and quality risks.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in QA test automation or software development.

• Hands-on experience with manual/functional testing of web applications.

• Proficiency in writing and maintaining automated tests in TypeScript.

• Experience working with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright WebdriverIO and Cypress.

• Working knowledge of element locators (XPath CSS selectors).

• Experience supporting automated testing in continuous integration and delivery environments. (Jenkins Bamboo or similar).

• Proficient with Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with web technologies (HTML / CSS / JavaScript)

• Exposure to mobile testing and mobile automation.

• Exposure to performance load or security testing.

• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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