Software Development Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Senior SDET) to provide technical leadership for quality engineering across our enterprise SaaS platforms. This role is responsible for defining and driving test strategy, automation frameworks, and quality standards across multiple development teams while remaining hands-on in critical areas of test automation.

The Senior SDET partners closely with Engineering and Product stakeholders to ensure scalable, reliable, and compliant software delivery in highly regulated environments. This role emphasizes leadership, strategy, and cross-team influence, with execution serving quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive QA and test strategy across multiple Agile development teams.

• Own test scope, coverage, and traceability back to requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Identify quality risks in system architecture and design; define mitigation strategies.

• Ensure test execution supports a production release cadence without compromising quality.

• Enforce QA standards, tools, and best practices across teams.

• Drive automation coverage across integration, regression, smoke, performance, load and migration testing.

• Ensure automation is fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Translate high-value manual test scenarios into scalable automated tests.

• Review and refactor existing automation to maintain framework standards and efficiency.

• Perform hands-on automation and targeted manual testing where risk is highest.

• Conduct root cause analysis of defects and partner with development teams on resolution.

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, backlog grooming, and planning.

• Be a thought leader to lead distributed and remote QA partners.

• Continuously identify opportunities to improve coverage, execution speed, and reliability.

• Identify challenges in the processes and propose solutions to improve.

• 7+ years of experience in software quality engineering with strong automation focus.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Typescript and Playwright as well as Java and Selenium.

• Proven experience driving test strategy and automation across multiple teams.

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC, and Agile practices.

• Experience validating complex, distributed, enterprise-scale systems.

• Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles and test architecture.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with performance and load testing.

• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling.

• Prior experience leading or mentoring QA teams.

• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.