Junior SDET: Web & API Automation for Industrial Systems

eMeasurematics - Industrial Autonomous Solutions; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

eMeasurematics is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks for our industrial software platforms in Chicago. You will test web apps, APIs, backend services, and integrations with IoT devices, ensuring reliability across complex workflows.

You will collaborate with software developers and product teams, contribute to CI/CD, and help validate data flows and system behavior in real-world industrial environments.

Qualifications

• Recent Graduate with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Experience testing web applications and REST APIs.
• Experience with automation/testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, PyTest, Postman, REST Assured, or similar technologies.
• Experience with SQL and validating data within relational databases.
• Understanding of software architecture, APIs, databases, middleware, and distributed applications.
• Familiarity with Git and modern CI/CD environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with software developers and cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks and test suites.
• Build automated tests for web applications, APIs, backend services, and system integrations.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Develop reusable automation scripts and tools to improve testing efficiency.
• Validate data flowing between applications, databases, APIs, IoT devices, and external systems.
• Test complex workflows within industrial yard, warehouse, material tracking, and automation applications.
• Identify, document, troubleshoot, and track software defects through resolution.
• Work closely with developers to reproduce issues and determine root causes.
• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design reviews to ensure applications are testable from the beginning.
• Help integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform API testing and validate application integrations.
• Conduct load and performance testing for critical applications and services.
• Help improve application monitoring, logging, alerting, and overall system reliability.
• Track testing coverage, defects, and release readiness.
• Support testing of software releases before deployment to customer environments.

Skills

Automated testing frameworks

Web application testing

REST API testing

SQL data validation

CI/CD collaboration

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Jest

JUnit

PyTest

Postman

REST Assured

Git

CI/CD tools

Docker

Job description

eMeasurematics is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks for our industrial software platforms in Chicago. You will test web apps, APIs, backend services, and integrations with IoT devices, ensuring reliability across complex workflows.

You will collaborate with software developers and product teams, contribute to CI/CD, and help validate data flows and system behavior in real-world industrial environments.