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# SDET (Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** Collabera
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,400.0 - $118,560.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Continuous Integration, Data Validation, Software Debugging, Groovy, Selenium, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), SoapUI, SQL Databases, Subversion, Postman, Appium, Test Scripts, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Splunk, Software Version Control, SDET, Jenkins
- **Published:** June 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c884aaed-a686-4443-ae71-afb3a0f27f10

## About the Role

* 5+ years of SDET experience
 * Hands-on experience testing Kafka-based event-driven architectures
 * API/service testing (REST and SOAP) using tools such as Postman and SoapUI
 * trong technical proficiency in Java and automation frameworks (Selenium/Appium, Groovy) - Groovy preferred
 * Experienced in debugging and root cause analysis using system logs (ex - Splunk), version control systems (Git/Subversion), SQL-based data validation, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
 * Rest Assured
 * Automating test scripts



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