
Senior Software Development Engineer Test (SDET)
Forge Global1 month ago
Base Salary
$175k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build comprehensive test strategies for infrastructure changes and releases.
- Develop test automation frameworks, tools, and solutions to make testing faster, more efficient, and stable.
- Use artificial intelligence technologies, including agentic automation, MCPs, and RAG applications, to augment testing activities.
- Create test plans covering functional, compliance, legal, and customer use cases.
- Identify requirements gaps and design failure modes from project initiation through delivery.
- Automate tests based on business value and priority.
- Participate in requirements analysis, functional and technical test design, and test gap analysis.
- Provide technical assistance in diagnosing issues and identifying defect trends.
- Collaborate with product, design, information security, business, development, and quality engineering teams.
- Document testing strategies, findings, and technical information clearly.
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, load testing, and performance testing.
- Preferred experience mentoring other quality engineers.
- Strong teamwork, delivery, communication, and customer-focused skills.
- Experience in high-growth, venture-backed startups is preferred.
Tech Stack
CypressSelenium