Lead Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET
Stand Together
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Lead quality and test automation strategy for our web and Salesforce applications.
- Design and maintain automated tests within our CMS platforms for content workflows, templates, modules/plugins, roles, permissions, and publishing states.
- Perform and automate QA testing within Salesforce, including validation of custom objects, workflows, permissions, and releases.
- Build end-to-end and API tests covering connected services.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable deployments.
- Partner with engineering teams to define quality standards, acceptance criteria, and release readiness.
- Mentor QA engineers and promote quality-first practices across content and platform teams.
- Drive root-cause analysis of defects and improve test coverage over time.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software development and/or test automation, including technical leadership or mentorship.
- Strong programming skills in PHP, Python, Java, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Strong experience with non-relational and relational databases and advanced SQL to support test automation, data validation, and root-cause analysis for SPAs, CMS and Salesforce-based systems.
- Hands-on experience testing Contentful, Drupal and/or WordPress, including custom modules/plugins and content workflows.
- Experience performing QA and/or automation for Salesforce applications, including custom objects, workflows, and permissions.
- Experience with web and API test automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, AccelQ).
- Experience testing modern single-page applications (SPAs), including React-based applications using NextJS and Node, with an understanding of component lifecycles, client-side state, and asynchronous behavior.
- Deep understanding of modern software testing practices, frameworks, and architecture for distributed systems.
- Knowledge of data-driven testing and test observability patterns.
- Experience with performance, accessibility, and security testing for public-facing websites and CRM platforms.
- Proven experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams.
- Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
Benefits
- Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment.
- We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceproblem-solvingcommitment to cultureenthusiasmquality-first practicesroot-cause analysis