Senior SDET Lead: Automation & Quality Engineer

New-York-Life

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 100,000 - 143,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

New York Life seeks a Senior SDET – Automation Tester & Lead to advance quality engineering across web, REST API, and mobile apps. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines, guiding testing strategy across Agile teams.

The role requires 7+ years in testing/QA, strong programming skills, and experience automating across web/API/mobile with Java, Python, or JavaScript. Hybrid work in NY available with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software testing or quality engineering experience.
  • Experience designing and developing automated frameworks for native mobile apps.
  • Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript.
  • Ability to write SQL queries across Oracle databases.
  • Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain automation frameworks for web, API, and mobile platforms and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead comprehensive testing across the software delivery lifecycle with automated and manual testing.
  • Identify bottlenecks and gaps to improve automation and testing processes.
  • Develop QA metrics and report quality status to stakeholders.
  • Provide quality engineering leadership across Agile teams.

Skills

Senior QA experience
Automation frameworks
Web/API/mobile testing
Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

JMeter
Postman
Jira
mabl
Sauce Labs
Git
Jenkins
TestNG
LoadRunner

Job description

New York Life seeks a Senior SDET – Automation Tester & Lead to advance quality engineering across web, REST API, and mobile apps. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines, guiding testing strategy across Agile teams.

The role requires 7+ years in testing/QA, strong programming skills, and experience automating across web/API/mobile with Java, Python, or JavaScript. Hybrid work in NY available with competitive compensation.

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