Senior SDET - AI-Driven Test Automation Leader

BlinkRx LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blink Health is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test I to design robust automation strategies and end-to-end testing for complex, cross-team features.

You will own automation roadmaps, partner with engineers, TPMs, and product leaders, and push AI-first QA capabilities across our distributed cloud-native platform. The role emphasizes scalable test infrastructure, performance and security automation, and mentorship of SDETs in a fast-growing healthcare tech environment.

Qualifications

• You have at least 5+ years of experience in SDET contributions, automation engineering, and quality tooling.
• You are passionate about delivering high-quality, reliable products through automation and intelligent testing strategies for both frontend and backend systems.
• You have advanced proficiency in testing methodologies, automation frameworks, debugging techniques, and distributed system validation.
• You are experienced in building and maintaining test infrastructure across multiple platforms and services.
• You have strong command over algorithms, data structures, databases, and scripting languages (SQL, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java).
• You have hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, performance engineering tools, observability platforms, and monitoring systems.
• You have deep expertise in API and backend testing, ideally with experience in AWS and distributed systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, or event-driven architectures.
• You have hands-on experience setting up performance/load/stress testing infrastructure at scale.
• You have practical experience using AI-assisted development and automation tools to improve test coverage, productivity, and release confidence.
• You understand modern AI-first QA concepts including intelligent test generation, self-healing automation, autonomous validation workflows, and agentic QA systems.
• You are comfortable evaluating and integrating emerging AI tooling into engineering and quality workflows.
• You have strong systems thinking and can identify opportunities where AI can improve reliability, observability, and engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end automation frameworks for complex, cross-team features.
• Own automation roadmap for modules with goals and metrics.
• Identify testability gaps and drive quality improvements.
• Build tools for functional, performance, resiliency, and security in CI/CD.
• Design scalable test infra for distributed, event-driven systems.
• Collaborate with eng, product, platform, QA for coverage.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate test creation and maintenance.
• Develop AI-first workflows with LLM tooling and self-healing automation.
• Drive autonomous QA, CI/CD validation and predictive quality.
• Promote observability-driven testing and production validation.
• Mentor SDETs and engineers to improve automation and code quality.

Skills

SDET experience

Automation engineering

Quality tooling

CI/CD pipelines

API testing

Distributed systems

Python/JS/TS/Java

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Blink Health is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test I to design robust automation strategies and end-to-end testing for complex, cross-team features.

You will own automation roadmaps, partner with engineers, TPMs, and product leaders, and push AI-first QA capabilities across our distributed cloud-native platform. The role emphasizes scalable test infrastructure, performance and security automation, and mentorship of SDETs in a fast-growing healthcare tech environment.