Senior SDET - Automation Frameworks & Debugging (Remote)

LaraBench; United States; Remote; USD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (Philippines)

Company-provided equipment

Aligned with U.S. Eastern Time

Job summary

LaraBench is seeking a Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to scale its engineering organization. This role goes beyond traditional QA automation and focuses on reading production code, improving automated testing, and partnering with software engineers to build reliable, high-quality applications.

You will expand the end-to-end automation framework (Pest in Laravel), increase coverage, and drive testing standards. Remote (Philippines) with alignment to U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an SDET, Software Engineer, or QA Automation Engineer with strong programming skills.
• Experience building or significantly enhancing automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and modern development practices.
• Experience debugging production applications.
• Experience working with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Own and expand the automation framework (80-90%).
• Build upon an existing end-to-end automation framework written using Pest in a Laravel ecosystem.
• Increase automation coverage across new features and regression scenarios.
• Improve test reliability, maintainability, and release confidence.
• Design thoughtful automated tests rather than scripted scenarios.
• Help shape testing standards and automation best practices across the engineering team.
• Lead technical bug investigation (10-20%).
• Participate in bug triage and investigate production issues.
• Review logs, traces, session replays, and observability data to determine root causes.
• Collaborate with software engineers to prioritize and resolve bugs.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Automation frameworks

Git & GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Laravel familiarity

Pest, PHPUnit, Playwright or Cypress

Tools

Pest testing framework

Laravel

PostgreSQL

Redis

Git

GitHub Actions

Docker

Browser automation

API testing

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

LaraBench is seeking a Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to scale its engineering organization. This role goes beyond traditional QA automation and focuses on reading production code, improving automated testing, and partnering with software engineers to build reliable, high-quality applications.

You will expand the end-to-end automation framework (Pest in Laravel), increase coverage, and drive testing standards. Remote (Philippines) with alignment to U.S.