Senior SDET - Backend/API Automation & CI/CD

Icapitalnetwork; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Healthcare benefits

Dental & Vision coverage

Telemedicine access

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Flexible Friday remote

Job summary

iCapital is seeking a Software Developer in Test to join our platform engineering team. You will lead automated testing for backend services and APIs, integrate tests with GitLab CI/CD, and scale automation to evolving architectures including blockchain components.

You’ll work with developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure testability and quality across distributed systems, crafting metrics and defect workflows in JIRA for traceability and continuous QA improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA engineering delivery experience with strong focus on backend or API testing.
• 5+ years of delivery within Agile SDLC teams ideally with CI/CD.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs, backend microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with blockchain technologies (smart contracts, distributed ledgers, blockchain node interaction) is preferred.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD tooling and pipelines, especially GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with Java, Playwright, Behave, Postman/REST Tools, JMeter or similar performance tools.
• Experience with Gitlab, Git, Jenkins, and Docker.
• AI Integration experience is preferred.
• Exposure to banking or finance environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement robust automated test suites for API and backend services.
• Integrate automated test suites into existing GitLab CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Maintain and improve automation frameworks to accommodate evolving system architecture, including blockchain based components.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps engineers to ensure testability and quality across distributed systems.
• Create and manage defect workflows integrated with tools such as JIRA, ensuring clear communication and traceability.
• Define, track, and publish meaningful QA metrics to support automated test development, execution, and overall quality reporting.
• Build and maintain performance and load testing suites for critical backend services and smart contract interactions where applicable.
• Perform all types of testing as needed like Functional, API, Automation, Performance, and Integration testing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, tooling, and best practices within an Agile environment.

Skills

QA engineering

Backend testing

API testing

CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Java

Playwright

Behave

Postman/REST Tools

JMeter

Git

Jenkins

Docker

Blockchain testing

AI integration

Tools

Playwright

Behave

Postman/REST Tools

JMeter

GitLab

Git

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

iCapital is seeking a Software Developer in Test to join our platform engineering team. You will lead automated testing for backend services and APIs, integrate tests with GitLab CI/CD, and scale automation to evolving architectures including blockchain components.

You’ll work with developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure testability and quality across distributed systems, crafting metrics and defect workflows in JIRA for traceability and continuous QA improvement.