
Senior SDET Automation Engineer
Yubico
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Building and maintaining robust, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks (e.g., for UI, API, and integration testing).
- Converting existing manual test cases into automated test suites using tools like Appium, Selenium, and Playwright.
- Performing manual, exploratory, and regression testing when appropriate.
- Developing and executing API and backend tests using tools like Postman or REST Assured, or pure code.
- Contributing to and improving our CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborating with software and hardware engineers, product managers, and other QA professionals to define test strategies and requirements.
- Writing detailed test cases and scenarios using data-driven or behavior-driven (BDD) approaches.
- Tracking, triaging, and reporting on bugs and test coverage metrics to improve overall system quality.
- Helping to integrate automation in hardware/software systems, including USB interfaces, stepper motors, and embedded components.
- Influence best practices for quality engineering, shift-left testing, and test automation adoption.
Requirements
- Experience with both automated and manual testing.
- 5+ years' experience of working in an SDET position.
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related area.
- Significant experience working in/with software development teams and using software QA methodologies and tools.
- Significant experience automating test cases for a complex system.
- Experience with automated testing tools.
- Able to thoroughly define and concisely document bugs.
- Significant experience with both white box and black box testing.
- Experience testing a product encompassing both software and hardware components.
- Able to document clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- The ability to work with and comprehend modern programming languages (e.g., C#, C++, and Python).
Benefits
- Health coverage
- Retirement plan
- Wellness reimbursement
- Learning and development
- Time off
- Paid parental leave
- Commuter Benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
test automation frameworksAPI testingbackend testingmanual testingexploratory testingregression testingdata-driven testingbehavior-driven testingwhite box testingblack box testing
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationdocumentationproblem-solvinginfluence