Remote Senior SDET - End-to-End Test Architect (Java)

Natera; United States; Remote; USD 137,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Employee referral program

Job summary

Natera is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to own quality strategy for its Commercial Services back-end microservices. You will drive test architecture, automation, and release confidence across order processing systems while mentoring other engineers.

The role requires hands-on expertise with Java, Playwright, and event-driven testing, plus experience with Kafka, contract testing, and CI pipelines. Remote USA options available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software test engineering / SDET experience with production-grade coding skills in Java.
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience testing event-driven systems using Apache Kafka, including producer and consumer contract tests, event replay, and idempotency validation.
• Proven experience designing end-to-end test coverage across many services and platforms in a heterogeneous ecosystem, where flows cross service, event, and UI boundaries.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for browser-based end-to-end automation.
• Extensive experience with Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development, including contract testing using tools such as Pact or Spring Cloud Contract.
• Experience building and maintaining CI test pipelines including flakiness triage, parallelization, and test result reporting.
• Extensive knowledge of AI processes and procedures related to SDLC, with particular emphasis on AI-assisted test generation, flaky-test triage, and log analysis.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test planning, system dependencies, and product integration phases.
• Experience working with remote and hybrid teams including overseas contractors.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices.
• Experience with software development lifecycle processes including building, software configuration, releases, and deployment activities.
• Experience with service-oriented and microservice architecture.
• Experience testing software within the AWS ecosystem (EC2, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, etc.).
• Experience with GraphQL API testing, including schema and contract validation.
• Strong relational database skills, with emphasis on test data management and validation strategy.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with a solid analytical background.
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy and quality architecture across the order processing domain, from unit tests through service-level, contract, and end-to-end coverage.
• Design, build, and maintain the automation frameworks, test infrastructure, and test data strategy that support rapid, reliable release cycles.
• Own end-to-end test coverage that spans multiple services and platforms in our ecosystem, coordinating flows that cross service boundaries, event streams, and UI surfaces.
• Work closely with Product Managers and engineers to gather requirements, review designs for testability, define acceptance criteria, and identify risk early in the software lifecycle.
• Own contract testing between our services and their consumers, regression suites, and non-functional testing including performance, load, and resilience.
• Partner with QA and engineering peers to continuously raise the quality bar, improve release confidence, and reduce escaped defects.
• This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and has access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.
• Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.
• Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.
• Employee must pass post offer criminal background check.

Skills

Java

SDET

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

JUnit

Mockito

Testcontainers

RestAssured

Pact

Spring Cloud Contract

Gatling

Karate

Gitlab CI

Job description

Natera is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to own quality strategy for its Commercial Services back-end microservices. You will drive test architecture, automation, and release confidence across order processing systems while mentoring other engineers.

The role requires hands-on expertise with Java, Playwright, and event-driven testing, plus experience with Kafka, contract testing, and CI pipelines. Remote USA options available.