Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Our Healthcare client is actively seeking a SDET for their growing team.

This opportunity is 100% remote and must be able to support central time zone (CST)

Summary:

We are seeking a proactive Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with strong software development skills and a quality-first mindset. You will design, develop and implement automated tools and test infrastructure for validating product features across Web, API, and backend services, while ensuring high-quality delivery. You will participate in product specification, code reviews and translate customer requirements, product goals into appropriate tests. You will spend 60-80% of your time writing test automation code.

Responsibilities:

Automation, Coverage & Quality Assurance Testing

• Design and maintain automation frameworks for Unit, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End testing.
• Define and monitor test coverage across UI, API, and database layers to ensure comprehensive quality assurance.
• Develop and manage test scripts using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Jest, BrowserStack, and Cucumber.
• Create robust test data generation strategies, including synthetic data for benefits scenarios.

Functional & Non-Functional Testing

• Design, execute, and maintain functional, performance, load, and stress tests using tools such as JMeter, WebLoad and k6.
• Perform security validation and edge-case scenario testing to ensure application reliability and resilience.
• Translate user stories and requirements into detailed test cases and test scenarios that ensure functional and regression coverage.
• Perform hands-on manual testing to verify feature behavior, identify gaps, and validate production readiness.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to review requirements early, influence testability, and ensure regression risks are well understood and mitigated.

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CI/CD Integration & Observability

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like ADO Pipelines, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Collaborate on deployment activities, including rollback verification and post-deployment validation.
• Monitor application and test performance using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or Kibana to proactively detect issues and ensure system health.

SDLC Involvement & Agile Practices

• Actively contributes to Agile ceremonies and backlog grooming sessions with a focus on understanding both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring clarity around testability, performance, and reliability.
• Define test strategies early in the lifecycle and ensure traceability from requirements to test cases and results to maintain coverage and accountability.

Code Quality & Version Control

• Follow Git-based workflows and branching strategies for effective collaboration throughout the SDLC.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on automated test code written by junior team members, ensuring adherence to coding standards, test reliability, and maintainability while mentoring best practices in test design.

AI driven quality engineering

• Leverage Generative AI and prompt engineering techniques to accelerate test case generation, improve coverage, and enhance productivity in QA workflows.
• Support testing of Generative AI applications, ensuring compliance, reliability, and quality through thorough validation of outputs and behaviors.

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Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor junior SDETs and QA engineers on best practices in test automation, debugging, and test design, fostering a culture of quality and continuous learning.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on automated test code written by junior team members, ensuring adherence to coding standards, test reliability, and maintainability while mentoring best practices in test design.
• Lead test planning and strategy for major features, services, or cross-functional initiatives, ensuring test coverage across functional and non-functional areas.
• Align QA goals with product and engineering roadmaps, collaborating closely with stakeholders to ensure quality is integrated from planning through release.
• Translate user stories and requirements into detailed test cases and test scenarios that ensure functional and regression coverage.
• Perform hands-on manual testing to verify feature behavior, identify gaps, and validate production readiness.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to review requirements early, influence testability, and ensure regression risks are well understood and mitigated.

Knowledge, Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master's in computer science, Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years of SDET experience with strong skills in Playwright, TypeScript, scripting, and automation tools (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Appium, Selenium)
• 3+ Years of Software Development/Programming experience
• Hands-on with AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway), microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Proficient in SQL/NoSQL; able to write complex queries for backend, data validation, and end-to-end testing
• Skilled in Agile, Git, and CI/CD with test automation integration
• Familiar with AI tools for test generation/analysis (e.g., Generative AI) and contributing to bug fixes and product improvements
• Strong communicator in global teams with experience mentoring junior QA/SDET engineers