Senior SDET - Test Automation, Performance & Frameworks

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 266,000 - 442,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Mental Health support

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer"s

Stock Option Program

Disability Programs

Health Savings and Flexible Spending

Family-forming benefits

Time off and leave

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a Software Engineer in Test to join the TV & Web Player Developer Experience and Release Quality team. You will own end-to-end testing, build systems, CI/CD, and the infrastructure behind them to keep playback fast and reliable across devices.

The role emphasizes test automation for a broad range of features, from core streaming to live events, developing frameworks, and driving quality gates.

Qualifications

• Experience ensuring the quality of consumer web or device applications at scale.
• Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Hands-on with test frameworks and harnesses; ability to build tooling from scratch.
• Experience applying AI tooling in testing to generate tests or triage failures.
• Familiar with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitHub Actions.
• Curious about audio/video streaming, DRM, codecs, and browser media APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end and functional test strategy for new features, including what scenarios to cover and which tests gate merges.
• Own performance testing: build automated tests and benchmarks across devices to catch regressions.
• Innovate on test automation by building frameworks, harnesses, and reusable tooling; apply AI-assisted approaches.
• Develop tools to enable realistic end-to-end test scenarios and reliable test data.
• Own and improve test metrics and drive down flaky tests and coverage gaps.
• Work with build systems and CI/CD pipelines to integrate tests as quality gates.
• Communicate quality, performance and reliability risks to engineering, product, and release stakeholders.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Test automation

Performance testing

Tools

Jenkins

Spinnaker

GitHub Actions

Job description

Netflix is seeking a Software Engineer in Test to join the TV & Web Player Developer Experience and Release Quality team. You will own end-to-end testing, build systems, CI/CD, and the infrastructure behind them to keep playback fast and reliable across devices.

The role emphasizes test automation for a broad range of features, from core streaming to live events, developing frameworks, and driving quality gates.