Backed by Norwest Venture Partners.
About the role
Lead with quality judgment: Challenge requirements and assumptions; distinguish verification (does it work as specified?) from validation (does it solve the user problem?); identify failure modes, edge cases, and business risks beyond happy paths. Test from the customer’s perspective: Map real user workflows, anticipate misuse and operational edge cases, and assess real-world impact; partner early with Product and Engineering to refine acceptance criteria and prevent defects.
What they're looking for
- 7-10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, SDET, quality engineering, developer productivity, or test-platform engineering, including 5+ years building and evolving automation or test infrastructure
- Evidence of owning an automation framework, test platform, internal developer tool, CI quality gate, or engineering system from architecture through adoption, operational support, and iterative improvement
- Experience testing modern systems beyond a single web UI: APIs, asynchronous workflows, distributed services, event-driven systems, data flows, third-party integrations, authentication/authorization, and failure recovery
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript preferred, with the ability to explain trade-offs among UI, API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, resilience, and exploratory testing
- Experience making automated testing trustworthy at scale: parallelization, isolation, deterministic test data, environment provisioning, observability, flaky-test diagnosis, retry policy design, quarantine/remediation workflows, and actionable reporting
- Strong CI/CD experience, including test selection or test-tiering strategies, PR quality gates, artifact collection, failure triage, and reducing feedback time without weakening coverage
More about this role
COMPANY
Propel Software transforms the way product companies work. Our product value management platform connects commercial and product teams to optimize decision making, drive process efficiencies, and engage customers with compelling products and experiences. Propel has a proven track record of improving product quality, speeding time to revenue and profit, and improving customer satisfaction. Recognized as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner and one of Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America, Propel is built on Salesforce and drives product success for hyper growth startups, corporate pioneers, and Fortune 500 leaders in the high tech, medtech and consumer goods industries.
ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who treats quality engineering as a software engineering discipline.
This role is for a deeply technical engineer who intentionally applies strong development skills to product quality, reliability, and delivery confidence. You will own quality engineering for complex features and product areas: shaping test strategy, building durable automation, validating integrations and real user workflows, and improving the speed and...
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