Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Filevine; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental leave

Open office in Sugar House

Company swag

Impact Day 1

Job summary

Filevine’s Telephony team builds the voice communication capabilities that connect customers to the information and people who matter most.

We are seeking a Senior SDET to own quality across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications, with a focus on design, automation, and scalable testing frameworks. This role requires leadership, mentoring, and a proactive approach to improving testing across the stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or test automation experience.
• Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques.
• Expert in QA testing techniques and STLC.
• Experience testing REST web services.
• Ability to design and build custom test tooling for asynchronous and event-driven services.
• Experience applying GenAI/LLMs to testing productivity and analysis challenges.
• Familiarity with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing AI-driven, conversational, or agent-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and write test plans and automated test scripts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications.
• Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline.
• Design and implement automated test frameworks and tooling.
• Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to other engineers and drive complex projects to completion.
• Identify opportunities for automated testing at End-to-End, Integration, UI levels and propose solutions.
• Communicate clearly with technical and management audiences on usability, serviceability, and suggested changes.

Skills

Test planning

Automation scripting

Load testing

REST API testing

CI/CD

Playwright

GitLab

QA methods

Tools

Playwright

Job description

• Filevine’s Telephony team builds the voice communication capabilities that keep our customers connected to the information and people who matter most to their concerns
• The platform spans a range of surfaces, from deep backend services and integrations to customer-facing applications and intelligent, AI-driven voice experiences
• We are looking for a Senior SDET to own quality across this full breadth
• This is a backend-leaning, tooling-heavy role for an engineer who wants to solve hard testing problems and raise the quality bar for the entire team, not simply execute existing test plans
• Design and write test plans and automated test scripts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications
• Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline
• Design and implement automated test frameworks
• Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing
• Responsibly drive complex projects forward to completion
• Exercise independent judgment
• Make informed recommendations to management
• Provide leadership and mentoring to other engineers
• Independently identify opportunities for automated testing at different levels (End to End, Integration, UI, etc.) and possible solutions
• Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences on usability, serviceability, and suggested changes

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Short & long-term disability
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Centrally located open office in Sugar House
• Company swag that will make your friends envious
• Opportunity to make an impact on Day 1

The ideal engineer is equally at home driving rigorous backend and API testing, validating customer-facing applications, and inventing new approaches to test systems that resist conventional, UI-driven automationPractical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challengesExpert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLCExpert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java7+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineerExperience with stress and load testing tools and techniquesExpert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testingDemonstrated ability to design and build custom test tooling and harnesses for systems that are difficult to exercise through conventional automation, including asynchronous and event-driven servicesExpert experience testing REST web servicesComplete understanding of the application development life cycleExperience testing telephony, VoIP, or other real-time communication systemsExperience testing AI-driven, conversational, or agent-based applicationsFamiliarity with modern front-end frameworksExpert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mockingExpert understanding of source control systems (GitLab) and CI/CD pipelinesExpert understanding of automated testing frameworks such as Playwright