Senior SDET

Sleek; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company based in Singapore is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to enhance automation and ensure quality across software deployments. The ideal candidate will develop robust test strategies, maintain high standards of test coverage, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive quality assurance in a cloud-native environment. Flexible work options and a supportive culture are part of the offer.

Benefits

Work from home options

Generous paid time off

Employee share ownership plan

Internal training programs

Carbon offset initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.
• 1+ years in testing, with primary programming language being NodeJS.
• Deep experience with test automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop test automation strategy and frameworks.
• Ensure over 80% automation test coverage.
• Guarantee quality in critical flows before each release.

Skills

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Microservices testing

API validation

Container orchestration

Performance testing

Security testing

Debugging skills

Education

5 years in software development

1+ years in testing

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

AWS

Azure

Job description

Overview

Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs.

We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space.

We operate 3 business segments:

1. Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with ~5% market share of all new business incorporations
2. Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service
3. FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses

Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 500 staff with an intact startup mindset.

We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia.

Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Singapore.

Mission and Outcomes

Mission: At Sleek,we are on a mission to deliver intelligent, resilient, and high-performance software systems that transform user experiences across industries. We are seeking a SDET who is passionate about quality, automation, and architectural excellence to pioneer our next-generation test automation strategy. If you\'re eager to drive innovation in test engineering, collaborate cross-functionally, and lead the transformation of quality assurance in a complex, cloud-native, real-time environment, this is your calling.

Outcomes:

1. Develop deep domain expertise by collaborating with squads and acquiring core business knowledge of Sleek to ensure meaningful and relevant test coverage.
2. Accelerate feedback loops by executing automated tests upon code commit to support a fail-fast engineering culture.
3. Ensure robust test coverage, maintaining over 80% automated test coverage for all features within the automation scope at all times.
4. Support strategic initiatives such as Sleek 2.0 by designing and implementing targeted automated test cases.
5. Improve issue resilience by adding negative validations or test scenarios for production issues within two weeks of occurrence.
6. Guarantee quality in critical flows, achieving 100% test coverage (happy and negative paths) for all business-critical journeys before each release.
7. Maintain test reliability with a 100% pass rate for automated test executions; proactively raise and resolve any failures.
8. Incorporate non-functional requirements into the automation suite, such as ensuring page load times remain under 3 seconds.
9. Promote a shift-left testing culture by enabling developers to independently maintain and initiate automated tests once developed.
10. Enhance visibility and reporting by improving the existing automation framework to support customized test execution reports mapped to source code.
11. Optimise execution efficiency by ensuring tests run in parallel with a maximum execution time of 10 minutes per module and 30 minutes for the full regression suite.
12. Minimise defect leakage, keeping it below 5% of the total defects identified during testing.

To do this, you will have a minimum of 5 years experience in software development, and 1+ years in testing, with primary programming language being NodeJS.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, Robot Framework).
• Proven success integrating test automation with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Experience in microservices testing, API validation (e.g., Postman, REST-assured), and backend automation.
• Familiarity with container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on knowledge of performance testing, security testing, and real-time streaming validation is a plus.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, testing pyramid, and risk-based testing.
• Strong debugging skills and ability to conduct root cause analysis on failures of both automation tests and code
• Experience with AI/ML in testing and tools for visual/UX validation is a strong plus.
• Excellent decision making skills, mentoring, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Interview Process

About the interview process: The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages. It might seem like a lot - but fear not - we come prepared! We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish depending on your availability.

Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role.

Screening with Talent Acquisition

A ~30 minute conversation with HR

Case study/ Technical Round

A ~60 minute live test with the Hiring Manager

Technical Round 2

A ~ 60 minute non-coding and performance based interview with two QA Engineers

Behavioural fit interview

A ~45-60 minutes with a member of leadership

References checks & Offer

Background screening and consent will be required. Sleek is a regulated entity and may perform background checks, including education, criminal history, political exposure, and bankruptcy/adverse credit checks depending on the role. An adverse result may affect probation. We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks.

Data privacy statement: By submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Data Privacy Statement for Candidates, found at sleek.com.

Benefits and culture

Some other great things about working at Sleek…

Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment.

Flexibility: You’ll be able to work from home. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don’t mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year.

Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region.

Personal growth: You’ll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you’ll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There’s a range of internal and external training programmes we run. We’re also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional.

Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp. Since we started our journey in 2017, we’ve been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we’ve joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry\'s, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy. We have planted over 29,271 trees to reforest our ecosystem and saved 7 tons of paper from landfills by processing over 1.4M pages through SleekSign. We aim to be Carbon Neutral by 2030.