Senior SDET

Fulcrum Digital; Mexico; On-site; PHP 6,862,000 - 9,357,000; Full time

Job summary

Fulcrum Digital is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design and implement automation for agentic AI workflows, APIs, and UI. This hands-on role combines strong testing discipline with software engineering fundamentals to ensure production-grade quality across distributed systems.

You will build robust automation frameworks (Playwright, REST Assured, etc.), define test strategies for non-deterministic AI components, and mentor teams to raise their testing bar while

Qualifications

• Strong automation engineering background with hands-on framework design and coding.
• Experience testing modern distributed systems, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for UI automation and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of LLM evaluation, prompt/workflow validation, and agent guardrail testing.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Familiarity with observability, test data management, and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality engineering for agentic applications, intelligent workflows, APIs, UI, and platform services.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and system-level testing.
• Define test strategies for AI and agent-based systems, including workflow validation and reliability checks.
• Build automated quality gates for CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-confidence releases.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, architects, and data/AI teams to bake quality in from design to production.
• Mentor team members on automation and quality best practices.

Skills

Automation framework

LLM evaluation

Playwright

UI automation

API testing

CI/CD integration

Agentic AI testing

Java/Python

Tools

REST Assured

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer inTest (SDET) to help build and assure the next generation of intelligent,agentic products and platforms. This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someonewho combines deep automation expertise with strong software engineeringfundamentals and practical experience testing AI-powered and agent-basedsystems in production-grade environments.
This role is ideal for a builder who enjoys solving complex quality challenges,designing scalable automation strategies, and raising the engineering baracross teams. We are particularly interested in candidates who can applyinnovative thinking, strong ownership, and modern quality engineering practicesto validate agentic applications, LLM-powered workflows, APIs, user journeys,and end-to-end platform reliability.
We are seeking a talented Senior SoftwareDevelopment Engineer in Test (SDET) to define and implement an effectiveautomation and quality strategy within an Agile team. This role will validateapplication functionality, resilience, and business outcomes using moderntesting methodologies, strong engineering discipline, and best practices incontinuous integration and delivery

Requirements

Role:

• Own end-to-end quality engineering for agenticapplications, intelligent workflows, APIs, user interfaces, and supportingplatform services.
• Design, develop, and maintain robustautomation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and system-leveltesting.
• Define test strategies for AI and agent-basedsystems, including workflow validation, response quality, tool usage,guardrails, reliability, and failure handling.
• Build automated quality gates for CI/CDpipelines and ensure high-confidence releases through continuous testing.
• Partner closely with software engineers,product managers, architects, and data/AI teams to ensure quality is built infrom design through production.
• Create meaningful test data, validate edgecases, identify defects early, and drive root cause analysis through toresolution.
• Evaluate non-functional characteristics suchas performance, reliability, observability, resilience, and scalability.
• Contribute innovative ideas that improvetestability, developer productivity, release confidence, and engineeringeffectiveness.
• Demonstrate strong ownership by proactivelyidentifying gaps, driving improvements, and mentoring team members onautomation and quality best practices.

About You

• Strong experience in software test automation,automation framework design, and code quality practices.
• Proven ability to test modern distributedsystems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and user-facing applications.
• Experience validating AI-enabled or agenticapplications, including prompt/workflow validation, output quality assessment,and scenario-based testing.
• Strong understanding of Agile development,shift-left testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Comfortable working across ambiguity andapplying innovative thinking to solve new and evolving quality challenges.
• Strong communication, collaboration, andstakeholder management skills, with a bias for action and accountability.

Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, orsimilar languages used for automation and test engineering.
• Hands-on experience with API and UI automationframeworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated tests intoCI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Understanding of test approaches for LLMs,retrieval workflows, agent orchestration, and non-deterministic systems ishighly desirable.
• Familiarity with observability, logging, testdata management, performance testing, and service virtualization is a plus.

Leadership & Mindset

• Innovative thinker who challenges conventionalapproaches and introduces better ways to assure quality at scale.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, andfollow-through from test strategy through delivery outcomes.
• Able to influence quality culture across teamsand mentor others in modern automation and engineering excellence.

Must-Have

• Strong automation engineering backgroundwith hands-on framework design and coding
• Experience with LLM evaluation,prompt/workflow validation, and agent guardrail testing
• Hands-on expertise in Playwright for UI and end-to-end automation
• Exposure to performance, resiliency, andobservability testing for AI systems
• Proven experience testing APIs,integration flows, and CI/CD quality gates
• Knowledge of retrieval-based systems,tool-calling workflows, and non-deterministic test patterns
• Experience testing agentic AIapplications, including workflow accuracy, tool usage, and failurehandling
• Experience with service virtualization,test data management, and synthetic test environments
• Strong programming skills in Java,Python, or similar languages for automation
• Familiarity with cloud-native testing indistributed/event-driven systems
• Ownership mindset, innovative thinking,and ability to drive quality improvements end to end
• Mentoring experience and contribution toquality engineering best practices across teams

Good to Have

• Strong automation engineering backgroundwith hands-on framework design and coding
• Experience with LLM evaluation,prompt/workflow validation, and agent guardrail testing
• Hands-on expertise in Playwright for UI and end-to-end automation
• Exposure to performance, resiliency, andobservability testing for AI systems
• Proven experience testing APIs,integration flows, and CI/CD quality gates
• Knowledge of retrieval-based systems,tool-calling workflows, and non-deterministic test patterns
• Experience testing agentic AIapplications, including workflow accuracy, tool usage, and failurehandling
• Experience with service virtualization,test data management, and synthetic test environments
• Strong programming skills in Java,Python, or similar languages for automation
• Familiarity with cloud-native testing indistributed/event-driven systems
• Ownership mindset, innovative thinking,and ability to drive quality improvements end to end
• Mentoring experience and contribution toquality engineering best practices across teams