SDET Lead: Automate Test Platform & CI/CD

RXinsider LTD.; Sparks Corner (MD); On-site; USD 96,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Waters in Sparks, MD is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, implement, and maintain automated test platforms for our software systems. The role emphasizes building production-quality code that verifies software and integrates with external systems and hardware for reproducible tests.

The ideal candidate has a strong C# background, 3+ years in test automation, and experience with CI/CD, Agile practices, and FDA/ISO quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• 3+ years of professional software development, test automation or quality engineering experience.
• Fluent in C#; able to design and build maintainable, extensible code at module and library level.
• Proven experience building test frameworks and shared libraries from scratch.
• Proficiency with multi-module build systems, dependency management, and library versioning at scale.
• Experience authoring and owning CI/CD pipeline definitions end-to-end, including containerized test environments.
• Familiarity with structured test reporting, code coverage analysis, and static quality tooling.
• Experience with Defect Tracking Tools, Requirements Management and Test Management Tools such as ADO, Cognition Cockpit, and JAMA software.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies in software development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with FDA regulations for medical instruments, ISO 13485, IEC 62304 standards and Quality Management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a multi-module test infrastructure spanning API, browser, performance, and protocol-level testing disciplines.
• Create and maintain automated functional, integration, system, regression and performance tests.
• Develop and version reusable shared libraries, authentication clients, model libraries, and data providers consumed across multiple test modules.
• Build software tests that interface with external systems and hardware devices to enable isolated, reproducible test environments independent of third-party availability.
• Engineer layered API client abstractions that handle authentication, request construction, response validation, and structured logging.
• Design and execute tests that model realistic concurrent user journeys and produce actionable results.
• Author and maintain CI/CD pipeline definitions that execute, gate, and report on test results across environments and deployment targets.
• Integrate test execution with external test management and defect tracking systems to maintain traceability from requirement to result.
• Enforce production-grade engineering standards on test code, design patterns, code review, refactoring, and module-level abstractions.
• Collaborate on API contracts, authentication flows, and system observability from a testability perspective during design and development.

Skills

C#

Test automation

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

Communication

FDA/ISO knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

ADO

Cognition Cockpit

JAMA software

Job description

Waters in Sparks, MD is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, implement, and maintain automated test platforms for our software systems. The role emphasizes building production-quality code that verifies software and integrates with external systems and hardware for reproducible tests.

The ideal candidate has a strong C# background, 3+ years in test automation, and experience with CI/CD, Agile practices, and FDA/ISO quality standards.