
Senior Software Development Engineer Test (SDET)
Forge Global1 month ago
Base Salary
$175k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build comprehensive bottom-up test strategies for infrastructure changes and releases.
- Develop test automation frameworks, tools, and solutions that make testing faster, more efficient, and more stable.
- Use artificial intelligence technologies, including agentic automation, MCPs, and RAG applications, to augment testing activities.
- Create test plans covering customer use cases, including functional, compliance, and legal requirements.
- Engage from project initiation to identify requirements gaps and design failure modes.
- Automate tests according to business value and priority.
- Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and test gap analysis.
- Provide technical assistance diagnosing issues and help identify defect trends and root causes.
- Collaborate with quality, product, design, information security, business, and development teams.
- Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or 5 years of software engineering experience.
- 5–10 years of software testing experience.
- Experience in fintech, trading, or financial services.
- Experience leading quality efforts for internet applications.
- Experience with UI, API, or other test automation.
- Experience enhancing test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and K6.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Fluency with AI technologies related to testing and validation.
- Preferred experience with end-to-end automation, contract testing, API automation, and load and performance testing.
- Preferred experience mentoring other quality engineers.
- Proven teamwork and delivery record, preferably in high-growth, venture-backed startups.
Benefits
- For residents of the New York, NY area, the annual salary range is $175,000–$205,000 plus an annual bonus.
- Employment offers are subject to background checks, including employment and education verification, criminal history searches, fingerprinting, and drug testing.
- Forge is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
CypressSelenium