Senior QA Automation Engineer (SDET) – Remote

Suralink Inc; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly policy

Medical/vision/dental insurance

Flexible PTO & holidays

Job summary

Suralink Inc is looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to champion quality across the stack in a remote-friendly position with preference for the Salt Lake City area.

You will build and scale automated test suites using Playwright and TypeScript, covering unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. You will work cross-functionally to promote testing best practices, shift-left and shift-right quality strategies, and ensure robust CI/CD test integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an SDET, QA Automation, or Software Engineering role.
• Strong understanding of testing across the pyramid: unit, component, integration, E2E.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native application architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test integration with tools like GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, DevOps, and other SDETs to define and implement holistic test strategies across unit, integration, and E2E levels.
• Build and maintain robust automated test frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.
• Help shift quality left by embedding testability and validation early in the design and development process.
• Help shift quality right by integrating observability tools, monitoring key use flows in production, and validating real-world performance and resilience.
• Support and advise on unit and service-level test implementation across frontend and backend teams.
• Improve test feedback loops by maintaining reliable and fast pipelines in CI/CD.
• Identify gaps in coverage, flakiness, and performance issues across the test ecosystem and lead efforts to address them.
• Ensure test environments and data strategies are scalable, reproducible, and representative of production.

Skills

SDET experience

Testing pyramid knowledge

Communication skills

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Observability tools

Job description

Suralink Inc is looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to champion quality across the stack in a remote-friendly position with preference for the Salt Lake City area.

You will build and scale automated test suites using Playwright and TypeScript, covering unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. You will work cross-functionally to promote testing best practices, shift-left and shift-right quality strategies, and ensure robust CI/CD test integration.