Lead SDET: AI-Driven QA for High-Throughput DEX

Startale Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Startale Group, in partnership with SBI Group, is building a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) focused on Japanese equities. We seek a Senior SDET to design and implement AI-enhanced quality engineering across the SDLC, from testing frameworks to CI/CD and blockchain validation.

You will collaborate with Backend, Frontend, Blockchain, and DevOps teams to drive testability, reliability, and performance for high-throughput trading systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SDET, Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Engineering roles.
• Experience building scalable automation frameworks and reusable testing libraries from scratch.
• Strong software engineering skills with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Strong experience with modern end-to-end testing frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Strong experience testing APIs (REST, JSON-RPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, or similar).
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker and containerized testing environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the company's quality engineering platform.
• Define testing architecture across unit, integration, contract, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Build and maintain reusable testing frameworks, shared libraries, fixtures, and developer tooling.
• Design reliable test data generation and management strategies that enable deterministic and repeatable testing.
• Continuously improve developer experience around testing and quality engineering.
• Design and implement AI-assisted quality engineering workflows throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Build systems that leverage LLMs for automated test generation, maintenance, and regression detection.
• Develop internal tooling to improve engineering productivity with AI.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and integrate them into the team.

Skills

SDET experience

Automation frameworks

JavaScript/TypeScript

APIs testing

CI/CD

Communication

Production-quality software

Test automation

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Startale Group, in partnership with SBI Group, is building a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) focused on Japanese equities. We seek a Senior SDET to design and implement AI-enhanced quality engineering across the SDLC, from testing frameworks to CI/CD and blockchain validation.

You will collaborate with Backend, Frontend, Blockchain, and DevOps teams to drive testability, reliability, and performance for high-throughput trading systems.