Senior SDET Team Lead | AI-Powered QA & Cloud Automation

Remote Genie; Virginia; Remote; USD 160,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance (100

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Training days

Holidays and personal days

Transit reimbursement

Job summary

Ten Mile Square Technologies is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to guide a quality engineering team modernizing a large financial services platform. You will drive test automation, release engineering, and enablement using AI tools like Claude while coordinating with product and engineering teams.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, 2+ years in leadership, strong Agile practice, AWS experience, and a passion for delivering high-quality software in a complex

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in test automation.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Team Lead, providing hands-on technical leadership, Agile delivery leadership, and team mentorship.
• Strong understanding and practical application of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Expertise designing and developing automation frameworks for distributed systems, APIs, and complex integrations.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software engineering tools.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern software architectures.
• Experience managing complex test data and troubleshooting integration issues across multiple systems.
• Ability to work effectively with brittle, poorly documented, or legacy systems without requiring expertise in their underlying technologies.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, quality engineering, and maintainable code.
• Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems.
• Be passionate about what you do.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly.
• Strong Agile mindset with a commitment to team ownership and success.
• Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable navigating technical complexity and ambiguity.
• Detail-oriented.
• High integrity and quality of work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile team execution, fostering ownership, collaboration, accountability, predictable delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Architect, develop, and maintain reusable test automation frameworks, engineering tools, and quality engineering practices.
• Establish effective testing strategies across API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.
• Leverage Claude and other AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, testing, and problem-solving.
• Develop strategies for discovering, creating, managing, and maintaining test data across complex, interconnected systems.
• Support testing, release execution, validation, and troubleshooting across modern applications and challenging legacy integrations.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine requirements, manage dependencies, plan sprints, and deliver reliable solutions.
• Improve CI/CD integration, automated quality gates, deployment processes, and release confidence.
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile Square team on development and knowledge sharing.
• Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value.
• Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis.

Skills

Agile leadership

Test automation

Cloud technologies

Software engineering

AI-assisted tooling

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

SQL

Team mentorship

Communication

Tools

Claude AI

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ten Mile Square Technologies is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to guide a quality engineering team modernizing a large financial services platform. You will drive test automation, release engineering, and enablement using AI tools like Claude while coordinating with product and engineering teams.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, 2+ years in leadership, strong Agile practice, AWS experience, and a passion for delivering high-quality software in a complex