Senior SDET: AI-First Quality & Automation (Remote)

Hireclout; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Wellness program

Job summary

Hireclout is seeking multiple SDETs at mid, senior, or staff levels for a fully remote role in the United States. You will own automation strategy, implementation, and signal quality for AI-powered products within a regulated industry, ensuring PHI stays out of non-production environments.

You will build robust test frameworks, guide exploratory testing, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to raise testing standards across teams. Strong AI-first experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in a modern programming language and experience with test automation frameworks.
• Experience automating product testing across web, mobile, or API layers.
• Ability to trace a failing test using logs and deployment context and tell whether the root cause is product, automation, data, or environment.
• Already working AI-first, using agentic tools to generate and maintain automation while reviewing the output critically.
• Clear communication with Engineering and Product about quality risk.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, maintainable test automation for web, mobile, and service-level products
• Use agentic tools to turn requirements into test scenarios, generate automation, and diagnose failures, while owning the judgment on whether the evidence is trustworthy
• Treat a generated test that passed once as a draft, not a test
• Make test feedback actionable through execution speed, gating, failure classification, and flake discipline so developers can self-resolve failures
• Trace failing tests across services using logs, traces, and deployment context to determine whether the root cause is product, automation, data, or environment
• Use synthetic data and isolation patterns that keep PHI out of non-production while giving engineers deterministic test state
• Perform deliberate exploratory testing alongside automation
• Communicate residual risk clearly to Engineering and Product
• Own the team’s quality strategy: define the verification strategy for a system based on risk, decide what evidence each layer needs, direct exploratory effort at unfamiliar failure modes, and state what is deliberately not tested and why
• Build automation architecture the team can build on: design frameworks, fixtures, and shared patterns for reliable parallel execution, accounting for concurrency, asynchronous behavior, and eventual consistency
• Own synthetic data and PHI guardrails: define the synthetic-data strategy, isolation patterns, and CI protections for non-production environments
• Set testability and non-functional quality where risk warrants: define environment, observability, and data needs with Platform rather than building a parallel one, and set the depth of performance, resilience, accessibility, and security verification
• Direct AI-first quality practice and keep judgment human: author agent conventions as versioned, reviewable artifacts and set boundaries for what agents may do without review
• Staff Level responsibilities: Raise the bar for testing automation across the engineering organization, Build a framework that helps other SDETs and software engineers automate testing more effectively, Lead the approach to testing AI-powered products

Skills

Programming language proficiency

Test automation

AI-first testing

Troubleshooting tests

Strong communication

Job description

Hireclout is seeking multiple SDETs at mid, senior, or staff levels for a fully remote role in the United States. You will own automation strategy, implementation, and signal quality for AI-powered products within a regulated industry, ensuring PHI stays out of non-production environments.

You will build robust test frameworks, guide exploratory testing, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to raise testing standards across teams. Strong AI-first experience is preferred.