Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Blooming Health is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to build and elevate its test engineering function as the company scales. The role defines test strategy, automation, tooling, and quality initiatives while partnering with Engineering, Product, AI, and customer-facing teams to improve product quality across its SaaS platform.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer Automated Tests: Architect, engineer, and execute tests that provide clear feedback, scale with the services under test, and are a joy to maintain
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong working relationships across Engineering, Product, AI, and Customer-facing teams. Act as a trusted quality partner who helps balance speed, reliability, and user experience
• Operational Excellence: Improve quality metrics in your feature teams and across the engineering organization
• Secure & Compliant Development Support: Ensure engineering practices appropriately support secure software development and high standards around sensitive and regulated data environments

Requirements:

• Deep experience in software quality engineering, including test strategy, automation frameworks, debugging, exploratory testing, and modern QA methodologies
• Comfortable actively contributing as an individual contributor while leading a team
• Able to review architecture, understand systems deeply, and collaborate closely with engineers on technical quality initiatives
• Proven track record delivering results in fast-paced startup or growth-stage SaaS environments where processes are evolving and teams must balance speed with quality
• Ability to leverage modern AI tools and agents to improve QA productivity, including generating test plans, accelerating automation, and enhancing testing workflows
• Strong ability to deeply understand application architecture, APIs, backend systems, and engineering tradeoffs
• Excellent communication and partnership skills with Engineering, Product, and leadership stakeholders
• Familiarity operating in environments involving sensitive or regulated data and secure development practices
• Preference for candidates comfortable working in open-source-oriented engineering environments
• Experience within healthcare technology, HIPAA-regulated environments, or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with evolving QA approaches in AI-enabled development environments, including intelligent test generation and automation workflows
• Experience working within highly technical engineering organizations that emphasize deep system understanding, source code review, and open-source tooling ecosystems
• Experience working with distributed engineering and QA teams across multiple locations and time zones
• Comfortable working across modern SaaS architectures, APIs, backend systems, and automated testing frameworks in language-agnostic environments