SDE: Quality Automation & AI-Driven Testing

Worky; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Shared Services team within Employee Solutions & Experience (ESE). You will design and implement modern automation solutions, contribute to engineering and DevOps best practices, and partner closely with development teams across ESE to improve quality, test coverage, delivery efficiency, and release confidence.

You will contribute to quality transformation through reusable automation frameworks, continuous testing, observability,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, test automation, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks, libraries, shared services, and developer tools.
• Build reusable capabilities for browser, API, integration, contract, performance, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.
• Establish engineering standards for automation architecture, code quality, testability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Integrate automated quality checks, release validations, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines while improving execution speed, parallelization, stability, diagnostics, and feedback time.
• Implement automation observability through logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts; analyze test, build, deployment, application, and production telemetry to identify quality issues.
• Partner with development, DevOps, SRE, security, architecture, and release teams to improve delivery quality and advance common platforms and reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor engineers and manual testers in automation, software development, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

C#

Automation frameworks

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud services

AI coding assistants

Claude Code

Codex

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

UKG is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Shared Services team within Employee Solutions & Experience (ESE). You will design and implement modern automation solutions, contribute to engineering and DevOps best practices, and partner closely with development teams across ESE to improve quality, test coverage, delivery efficiency, and release confidence.

You will contribute to quality transformation through reusable automation frameworks, continuous testing, observability,