Senior SDET: AI QA Automation, Remote-First, Flexible PTO

Suralink; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly policy

Medical/vision/dental insurance

Flexible PTO and 10 holidays

Job summary

Suralink is hiring a Sr. SDET for a remote-first team focused on QA automation in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

You will build and maintain automated tests using Playwright with TypeScript, collaborating across engineering, PM, and DevOps to shape test strategies and improve quality. With 5+ years in SDET/QA, you’ll contribute to a cloud-native architecture on AWS, support CI/CD pipelines, and help shift testing left and right.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an SDET/QA Automation or software engineering role with a strong focus on testing.
• 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

QA Automation

CI/CD

AWS

Communication

Tools

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Playwright

TypeScript

Job description

Suralink is hiring a Sr. SDET for a remote-first team focused on QA automation in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

You will build and maintain automated tests using Playwright with TypeScript, collaborating across engineering, PM, and DevOps to shape test strategies and improve quality. With 5+ years in SDET/QA, you’ll contribute to a cloud-native architecture on AWS, support CI/CD pipelines, and help shift testing left and right.