Principal Software Development Engineer in Test
eClinical Solutions23 days ago
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-level test automation frameworks using Playwright and C#/.NET.
- Lead automation framework, infrastructure, migration, and testing-platform evolution initiatives.
- Build ephemeral and containerized test environments and implement parallel and distributed test execution.
- Automate REST API, service-layer, integration, database, data-integrity, and end-to-end validation.
- Drive Shift-Left testing, continuous testing, and CI/CD automation strategies.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, quality audits, and guidance on automation architecture and engineering standards.
- Review execution reports, investigate failures and discrepancies, and improve automation reliability and maintainability.
- Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, architecture teams, and stakeholders to improve product quality and delivery efficiency.
- Create technical documentation, standards, architecture diagrams, and Confluence documentation.
Requirements
- BE in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8–15 years of hands-on experience in SDET, automation engineering, or quality engineering.
- Expertise designing enterprise automation frameworks and scalable automation infrastructure.
- Strong programming expertise in C#/.NET and object-oriented programming.
- Hands-on expertise with Playwright automation, including framework design, tooling, infrastructure, and parallel execution.
- Strong experience with REST API automation, service validation, integration testing, SQL, database testing, and backend data verification.
- Experience with Docker, ephemeral environments, CI/CD workflows, cloud-native platforms, and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS and security concepts, systems architecture, distributed systems, and secure communication protocols.
- Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, AWS services/platforms, TeamCity, SQL Server, PL/SQL, and Confluence.
- Experience implementing Shift-Left testing strategies and providing technical leadership for testing initiatives.
- Strong communication, presentation, documentation, analytical, mentoring, and technology evaluation skills.
- Familiarity with Active Coding practices, clean code principles, modern software engineering standards, and Microsoft Office applications.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement; the company was recognized with the 2025 Top Workplaces USA Award for Remote Work.
- People-first, inclusive culture emphasizing diversity, learning, growth, continuous improvement, and work-life balance.
- Equal opportunity employer with opportunities to impact healthcare and clinical development.
About eClinical Solutions
eClinical Solutions provides the elluminate data and analytics platform and biometrics/clinical data services to biopharma and other life sciences organizations running clinical trials. It sells software and professional services for clinical data management, statistical programming, reporting, and risk‑based quality to streamline and govern trial data workflows. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts, the company is privately held and backed by GI Partners.