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About the role
We are seeking a hands-on SDET to drive the evolution of quality engineering across our platform. In this role, you will define and scale our automation strategy, partnering with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to build fast, reliable, and CI/CD-native testing solutions with a strong focus on Playwright and API-first automation.
What they're looking for
- Lead the automation and quality engineering vision across teams, establishing scalable standards and modern frameworks (Playwright, API-first testing)
- Act as a hands-on technical coach and enabler, improving automation adoption, stability, and execution speed
- Transform legacy and slow regression models into fast, CI/CD-native, data-driven pipelines
- Use metrics, observability, and risk-based strategies to drive release confidence
- Introduce AI-accelerated testing approaches to increase engineering productivity
- Own quality outcomes end-to-end, from architecture and testability to production validation
More about this role
The Opportunity
We are seeking a hands-on SDET to drive the evolution of quality engineering across our platform. In this role, you will define and scale our automation strategy, partnering with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to build fast, reliable, and CI/CD-native testing solutions with a strong focus on Playwright and API-first automation.
You will act as a technical leader across multiple teams, creating reusable frameworks and shared tooling, modernizing legacy approaches, and mentoring engineers to increase automation adoption and release confidence. You will use metrics, observability, and AI-accelerated solutions to identify inefficiencies, reduce regression time, and enable faster, higher-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is a strong coder and automation architect who thrives on solving systemic quality challenges and elevating how teams build, test, and ship software. Success in this role is measured by improved automation efficiency, faster pipeline feedback, and the ability for teams to independently deliver high-quality releases.
Mission of the Role
This role operates as a horizontal quality leader across multiple product and platform teams, driving test...
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