Software Development Engineer in Test

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. The Software Development Engineer in Test will partner with Quality Engineering, SRE, Customer Relations, and Product to improve release integrity, quality observability, and automation. The role focuses on CI/CD quality improvements, internal tooling, performance testing, and establishing scalable quality metrics and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Implement strategies that improve release integrity, from automation in CI/CD pipelines to validation processes that increase confidence in deployments
• Instrumenting quality health metrics and dashboards that give teams clear visibility into product stability, release readiness, and test effectiveness
• Driving internal tooling initiatives that improve the developer experience and enable teams to test, measure, and ship with higher confidence
• Partnering across engineering, infrastructure, and product to identify opportunities for system-level quality improvements and advocate for automation-first approaches
• Using data and experimentation to continuously refine our approach to quality and ensure we’re focusing on the most impactful areas
• Working with your fellow engineers to develop first class quality measures that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability

Requirements:

• Understanding of modern quality engineering best practices, with the judgment to know when to apply or adapt them pragmatically
• Strong technical foundation in release management, automation frameworks, and CI/CD systems, with experience improving release reliability through data-driven quality initiatives
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining test automation at multiple layers (integration, end-to-end) for complex applications, using modern languages such as C++/C#, GD Script, or Python
• Proven experience using shift-left quality practices that improve code quality, deployment confidence, and developer velocity
• Hands-on experience with performance, resilience, and security testing, including integration of those checks into CI/CD pipelines and observability systems
• Experience building internal tools or developer utilities that enhance testability, observability, and overall release integrity
• Strong understanding of API quality, including contract validation and dependency testing in distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to produce quality, ownership and best practices across teams
• Solid collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement
• Experience maintaining or building declarative CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions)
• Familiarity with visual regression testing, performance tooling (k6, JMeter, Artillery), or distributed system fault injection
• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with observability stacks like Grafana, Kibana, or Prometheus