Software Engineer in Test

Role: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Work Hours: Overlap with US PST

Engagement Type: Full-time (40 hours/week)

Remote: Yes, 100%

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain scalable automated test suites across:
• Component-level testing
• API and service-level testing
• Integration testing
• End-to-end functional testing
• Regression and release-validation testing
• Non-functional, resiliency, and performance-testing support
• Build and maintain high-quality automation code using Java and/or Python.
• Work within Illumio's existing Java/Selenium automation framework and contribute recommendations for framework modernization, tooling improvements, execution stability, and test strategy.
• Take ownership of test automation frameworks, including reusable libraries, framework architecture, test data, reporting, test execution reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with software engineers, product managers, and quality leadership to define testable requirements, identify quality risks, and build quality into the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and execute API, integration, and UI test automation using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST/API testing libraries, or comparable technologies.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and improve quality gates, reporting, release readiness, and feedback cycles.
• Investigate failures in CI/CD or test environments; identify whether the root cause is related to the application, service/API, test automation, environment, test data, infrastructure, or an external dependency.
• Support release sign-off by clearly communicating test results, risk assessments, defects, coverage gaps, and release recommendations.
• Allocate approximately 20% of capacity to performance-testing support, including workload execution, baseline analysis, bottleneck identification, and collaboration with developers and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to testing of cloud-native, distributed, and service-oriented applications, including failure handling, resiliency, scalability, and dependency behavior.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, eliminate flaky tests, improve developer productivity, and increase automation coverage and engineering velocity.
• Participate actively in technical discussions and propose practical improvements rather than waiting for detailed task assignments.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Software Development Engineering in Test, Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or test automation
• Experience supporting SaaS, cloud-based, enterprise software, distributed-system, or cybersecurity products.
• Strong programming skills in Java and/or Python, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and reusable automation code.
• Hands-on experience with web/UI automation tools such as:
• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Or comparable modern automation frameworks
• Strong experience developing automated tests at multiple layers, including:
• API testing
• Component-level testing
• Integration testing
• End-to-end functional testing
• Regression and release-validation testing
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and working in Git-based development environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, containers, or distributed services.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications, APIs, backend services, test frameworks, cloud infrastructure, environments, test data, and third-party dependencies.
• Familiarity with performance-testing concepts, including throughput, latency, concurrency, response-time analysis, workload design, and bottleneck investigation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate test status, release risks, root-cause findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset, curiosity, and ability to operate effectively in an evolving, fast-paced engineering environment.
• Experience building, owning, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks.