SDET

• Own quality and reliability for assigned product areas, designing and implementing automated test frameworks across APIs, backend services, and UI components
• Build and maintain scalable test automation infrastructure integrated into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality feedback
• Leverage AI-assisted testing tools and intelligent automation techniques to increase test coverage and improve defect detection
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define testable requirements and identify quality risks early in the development lifecycle
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-confidence releases through continuous validation
• Mentor junior SDETs, promoting best practices in automation, quality engineering, and effective use of AI tools in testing

• Design, Develop and Maintain Test Automation Frameworks, Tools and Libraries: Develop a strong understanding of relevant product areas, independently implementing and maintaining complex automated tests and medium complex framework features.
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Skilled in debugging and resolving simple blocking issues, especially with automation scripts, new frameworks and new tools. Applies analytical and creative approaches to tackle simple quality challenges with solutions.
• Implement/Enhance Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI / CD): Understanding of automation framework with CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated testing during the build and deployment processes.
• Performance Testing Support: Design and implement complex performance test script based on existing automation framework and tools to execute performance tests. Provide analytical and provide feedback for the releases in the test result report.
• Define and Enforce Automation Standards and Best Practices: Enforcing coding standards, best practices, and guidelines for writing and maintaining automated scripts and framework. Review code written by team members to ensure adherence to standards and provide constructive feedback.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross functional teams and stakeholders to gather requirements and provide simple solutions in framework to meet medium-complex testing needs in small-medium sized team.
• Create, Monitor and Analyze Test Results: Create, review and analyze test execution results, providing complex insights and simple recommendations based on findings.
• Training and Mentorship: Train and mentor TE and SETs on using the automation framework to start writing medium automation tests. Training others to diagnose, resolve mid-complex issues and prepare proper documentation to ensure smooth operation.

Senior Software Engineer in Test

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable automated test frameworks across UI, API, and performance layers.
• Build and execute API, UI, and performance tests using automation frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Rest Assured, or JMeter.
• Apply BDD (e.g., Cucumber) or TDD approaches with maintainable and reusable test design patterns
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast and reliable feedback
• Improve test reliability by reducing flakiness and optimizing execution time
• Enable parallel test execution and environment scalability
• Ensure end-to-end test coverage by creating and maintaining comprehensive test cases, test plans, and test scripts.
• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing to uncover complex defects and conduct root cause analysis and deep debugging of failures and defects
• Analyze logs, data, and system behavior to identify hidden quality risks
• Validate end-to-end workflows and complex integrations
• Identify, document, and track defects using JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Collaborate with developers to improve testability and code quality
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code following engineering best practices
• Perform database validation using SQL/NoSQL

Senior Test Automation Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.
• Continuously expand automated test coverage using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Partner closely with developers to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure quality is built into every release.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and quality processes that support rapid product development.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to review requirements, acceptance criteria, and user stories to ensure clear, testable outcomes.
• Validate front-end, back-end, and AI-enabled functionality across multiple products and platforms.
• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution using established quality assurance methodologies.
• Assess production readiness and validate release quality prior to deployment.
• Develop and execute API, integration, and backend validation testing using modern testing frameworks and tools.
• Verify data integrity, system interoperability, and reliability across connected services and external integrations.
• Design and execute performance and scalability testing scenarios to evaluate system responsiveness and stability.
• Troubleshoot issues related to APIs, databases, and distributed system interactions.
• Support weekly production releases through testing coordination, validation, and stakeholder communication.
• Deliver demonstrations of completed functionality and provide feedback to development teams.
• Analyze quality trends and recommend improvements to testing strategies, tooling, and processes.
• Help shape the future of quality engineering at Slingshot by introducing new tools, frameworks, and best practices.

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