Staff SDET

Role Overview

• Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy, consistency, completeness and compliance.
• Ensure adequate test coverage for every release
• Validate automated test coverage and directly contribute code to close gaps.
• Mentor and provide day‑to‑day guidance to the junior members of the software test team.
• Review work to ensure compliance and quality
• Offer technical input when needed, but your primary responsibility is writing high‑quality automated tests and frameworks.
• Provide feedback and suggest improvements to the Agile SDLC process
• Identify inefficiencies and propose automation‑driven improvements that accelerate development and testing.
• Strategically incorporate automated testing into the SDLC
• Drive a fully automated testing approach. Manual testing is not part of this role.
• UI automation is required, and mobile automation experience (especially Appium) is a major advantage.
• Evaluate new tools for adoption within the organization
• Assess and recommend automation tools, frameworks, and libraries that improve speed, reliability, or maintainability.
• Develop and Optimize Automation Scripts and Frameworks
• Design, code, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python or another modern programming language (Java, etc.).
• Expect to spend the majority of your day writing code, building automation frameworks, and creating scalable automated test suites.
• Automation of Testing Processes
• Build end‑to‑end automated test suites across UI, mobile, integration, and system layers.
• Candidates must have recent, hands‑on experience writing automated tests—not overseeing them, not delegating them.
• Implement and Manage CI/CD Pipelines
• Collaborate with DevOps as needed. CI/CD familiarity is helpful but secondary to strong coding and automation engineering skills.
• Automation Solutions Customization
• Adapt automation frameworks to meet regulatory and product‑specific requirements.
• Ensure solutions are maintainable, reliable, and compliant.
• Maintenance and Enhancement of Automated Systems
• Continuously improve automation frameworks and test suites.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with automated solutions and implement them directly.
• Collaboration and Technical Leadership
• Work closely with developers and QA team members to ensure automation is deeply integrated into the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical insight without serving in a lead or managerial capacity.
• Technical Documentation and System Documentation
• Produce clear, concise documentation for automated tests, frameworks, and processes.
• Ensure documentation meets regulatory and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in a scientific, technical, or engineering discipline (Computer Science major preferred)
• 8 years’ experience in Software Testing and/or Software Quality Assurance
• 4 years’ experience working in a regulated industry
• 1 year experience working as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or equivalent hands‑on automation engineering role
• Must have strong, recent experience writing automated tests and building automation frameworks (not supervising, not reviewing, not primarily manual testing)
• Must have UI automation experience; mobile automation experience with Appium is a major plus
• Must be technically strong and have experience testing mobile applications
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

Tech Stack

• Java
• Python
• SDLC

Benefits

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit
• an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world
• Named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists