Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to play a key role in driving quality strategy automation excellence and functional testing leadership across one or more product areas.

This is a hybrid role where you will combine deep functional testing expertise with strong automation skills while also influencing test strategy framework improvements and overall quality practices within the team.

Ideal candidate should have:

• Deep experience defining and implementing functional regression and exploratory test strategies with the ability to assess and prioritize risk across features and services for comprehensive coverage.

• Strong technical background in architecting designing and evolving JavaScript/TypeScript-based test automation frameworks.

• Advanced debugging skills to investigate complex test failures intermittent issues and production defects drive root-cause analysis and implement systemic long-term fixes.

• Proactively evaluates emerging QA and automation trends tools and practices and leads the introduction of improvements that raise the quality bar for the team.

• Acts as a strong cross-functional partner and quality advocate effectively collaborating and influencing across distributed teams to align on quality goals standards and testing guidelines.

About You

Responsibilities:

• Own and implement end-to-end quality strategy for multiple features or product areas.

• Lead complex functional integration and regression testing efforts including risk assessment and test planning.

• Design enhance and maintain scalable and reliable automation frameworks using JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Write high-quality automated tests and set standards for test structure coverage and maintainability.

• Actively monitor and stabilize build pipelines triaging failures and resolving flaky or intermittent issues.

• Perform deep debugging across automation application code and test environments to identify root causes.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance on testing standards.

• Partner closely with developers product managers and UX designers to improve testability and quality outcomes.

• Stay ahead of emerging trends in QA and test automation and introduce improvements where appropriate.
  

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in test automation quality engineering or software development.

• Strong experience in functional testing of complex systems including edge cases and failure scenarios.

• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript for automation development.

• Solid experience working with modern automation frameworks like Playwright WebdriverIO and Cypress.

• Practical experience using element locators (XPath CSS Selectors).

• Solid object-oriented programming and test design principles.

• 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 experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with web technologies (HTML CSS JavaScript).

• Experience with mobile automation testing.

• 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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