Software Developer in Test

Senior QA Engineer (SDET) #2582

Position Summary:

Our partner is a rapidly growing SaaS company delivering intuitive remote monitoring and endpoint management solutions for IT teams. They are seeking a talented Senior SDET Engineer to help shape the quality foundation of their platform. This role focuses on building the automated test frameworks, developer-facing tools, and service-level validation systems that ensure reliability across a complex microservices environment. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, develop a deep understanding of how services operate, and design automation that integrates seamlessly into the development lifecycle. It’s a highly technical role where your work directly influences delivery speed, system stability, and developer productivity.

Experience and Education:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience/field
• Background as a software engineer building backend, full stack, or platform-level systems
• Experience developing applications or internal tools using Java, JavaScript, or both
• Prior work with Spring Boot, service development, API design, or microservices
• Experience in cloud-native environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Exposure to automated testing frameworks, test harnesses, or CI/CD automation

Skills and Strengths:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• JavaScript
• Automated test framework development
• JVM performance tuning and debugging
• Performance and load testing
• Concurrency and multithreading
• API contract testing such as OpenAPI, Pact or others
• Microservices testing
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD systems design
• Service virtualization and mocking frameworks
• Code-level test automation
• Fault injection and chaos testing
• Observability tooling such as logs, metrics, traces
• Git-based development workflow
• Root cause analysis in distributed systems
• Distributed systems fundamentals
• Data-level testing
• Service reliability patterns

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automated test frameworks, libraries, and internal tools that support engineering workflows.
• Build code-level automated tests that validate APIs, microservices, distributed components, and backend logic.
• Implement performance testing strategies to identify bottlenecks and improve service responsiveness.
• Apply concurrency-aware testing techniques for validating thread-sensitive backend behavior.
• Create and maintain API contract tests to ensure backward compatibility and stable service integrations.
• Develop microservices-focused tests that validate service boundaries, state transitions, and integration flows.
• Engineer Kubernetes-compatible test components that run reliably in cloud-native environments.
• Architect CI/CD-integrated test pipelines that enforce automated quality gates and early regression detection.
• Use service virtualization and mocking frameworks to isolate dependencies during automated testing.
• Introduce and execute fault injection and chaos testing to validate resilience and failure recovery.
• Integrate observability signals (logs, metrics, traces) into testing and debugging processes.
• Perform root cause analysis on distributed system failures and drive long-term reliability improvements.
• Apply distributed systems fundamentals when designing test strategies for consistency, replication, and state behavior.
• Validate system behavior at the data layer through data-level testing of persistence, transactions, and transformations.
• Collaborate with backend and platform teams to influence API design, architectural decisions, and overall service testability.