Test Automation Staff Engineer

About the role :

The Staff SDET role is an individual contributor and quality engineering leader within a software development scrum team. The Senior SDET guides and collaborates with a select group of SDETs and Test Engineers, covering the full scope of test automation and white-box testing. This role ensures software quality by developing robust automated tests, frameworks, and quality engineering processes.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test suites across UI, API, Microservices, and Database layers. Guide SDETs in one or more functional areas to optimize and stabilize these suites.
• Contribute to tool analysis, proof of concepts, and recommendations supporting tool selection. Establish best practices for coding, peer reviews, Git workflow, CI / CD, and quality gates.
• Participate in technical reviews with architects and developers to communicate design, requirements, and system limitations. Advocate for quality engineering standards across teams.
• Conduct functional and regression testing, analyze automation results, report defects, and ensure resolution tracking. Integrate automated tests into CI / CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and deployment.
• Actively engage in Agile ceremonies for mentee teams, including sprint grooming, planning, demos, retrospectives, and release meetings. Collaborate across squads to understand project requirements and architecture.
• Design and document comprehensive test strategies, guidelines, SOPs, and tooling to improve test automation efficiency.
• Triage customer issues and production metrics, perform root cause analysis, and advise on system hardening.
• Provide mentorship and oversight to a small group of SDETs, ensuring adherence to SOPs and coding / design guidelines.
• Lead maintenance of test environments and data creation to mirror staging / production configurations.

Recommended Experience & Education

Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

Required

familiarity with Shell and PowerShell scripting.

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