Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) — AI-Enabled Quality Infrastructure
SS&C TechnologiesBase Salary
$115k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor for development, debugging, and automated test authoring.
- Build AI-assisted quality engineering capabilities for test generation, failure categorization, root-cause analysis, and intelligent alert routing.
- Develop and maintain scalable API-level, integration, and UI-level test automation frameworks.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated integration and regression testing, test selection, and faster feedback.
- Troubleshoot CI failures, flaky tests, and environment-related issues.
- Develop test-reporting, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure using observability and data tools.
- Integrate LLM APIs and AI-assisted automation into internal engineering tools, quality workflows, and CI pipelines.
- Collaborate with product development teams to deliver automation frameworks, CI improvements, and AI-assisted engineering solutions.
- Support adoption of AI-assisted quality engineering through peer guidance, documentation, onboarding resources, and runbooks.
- Participate in code reviews focused on reliability, maintainability, and validation of AI-generated code.
Requirements
- Require 2–4 years of professional experience in software engineering, test automation, SDET, or related quality engineering roles.
- Require hands-on professional experience with AI-assisted coding tools and integrating LLM APIs or AI-assisted automation into tooling, testing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, or internal services.
- Require strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or a comparable language.
- Require experience developing and maintaining automated API, integration, or UI testing frameworks.
- Require working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Require experience with observability, monitoring, or data-reporting tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, or ClickHouse.
- Require familiarity with automated alerting and notification integrations, Git version control, branching, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Require experience in Agile or scrum-based product development environments and strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Require the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output and apply appropriate validation and engineering judgment.
- Preferred experience includes agentic development tooling, prompt design, AI output evaluation, Playwright, Cypress, pytest, Jest, Postman/Newman, Docker, AWS, Slack bots, PagerDuty, AWS Lambda, SQL, developer experience, internal tooling, or platform engineering.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
- Professional development reimbursement opportunity.
- Eligible employees may be considered annually for discretionary bonuses and/or equity awards.
- Hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco with onsite work 6 times per month; hiring locally only.
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About SS&C Technologies
SS&C is a leading global provider of mission-critical, cloud-based software and solutions for the financial and healthcare industries. Named to the Fortune 1000 list as a top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C (NASDAQ: SSNC) is a trusted provider to more than 23,000 financial services and healthcare companies, with over 27,000 employees and operations in more than 35 countries. Built upon a foundation of expertise, innovation and excellent customer service, SS&C powers some of the largest financial and healthcare firms in the world. +++++++++++++++++ ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc., ALPS Advisors, ALPS Funds and SS&C Technologies are affiliated. Distributed by ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUNDS INVOLVES RISK, INCLUDING LOSS OF PRINCIPAL. AN INVESTOR SHOULD CONSIDER INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES, RISKS, CHARGES AND EXPENSES CAREFULLY BEFORE INVESTING. TO OBTAIN A PROSPECTUS, WHICH CONTAINS THIS AND OTHER INFORMATION, CALL 1.877.398.8461 OR VISIT WWW.ALPSFUNDS.COM. READ THE PROSPECTUS CAREFULLY BEFORE INVESTING.