Software Development Engineer in Test | Luma

dotmatics; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

dotmatics is seeking an SDET embedded in an agile team building Luma, a cloud-based scientific research platform used by more than two million scientists worldwide. You own test automation for a specific module, contributing to existing frameworks while collaborating with developers, application scientists, and DevOps engineers.

You will write and maintain automated suites with Cypress, TypeScript, and Playwright where needed, perform manual exploratory testing, and ensure release readiness by

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of QA or testing experience.
• Hands-on test automation experience.
• Experience with Cypress and Page Object Model.
• Familiarity with Gherkin and BDD.
• Git/GitHub and JIRA proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Write, maintain, and extend automated test suites for an owned module using Cucumber, TypeScript, and Cypress.
• Own day-to-day quality: contribute test scenarios during planning, test stories as they are built, and communicate clear release readiness.
• Design and document test cases covering functional, regression, and integration scenarios and keep them useful as the product evolves.
• Investigate and reproduce defects, raise well‑evidenced bug reports in JIRA, and verify fixes with developers and scientists.
• Keep automated tests green and trustworthy in CI pipelines and help improve how tests run and report.
• Read and interpret API documentation and translate it into meaningful automated coverage.
• Perform manual exploratory testing alongside automation work.

Skills

BDD

Test Automation

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

TypeScript

JavaScript

Cucumber

GitHub

JIRA

Job description

Role overview

An SDET position embedded in one of the agile engineering teams building Luma, a cloud-based scientific research platform used by more than two million scientists worldwide. The role owns test automation for a specific module of the application, contributing to established frameworks while working closely with developers, application scientists, and DevOps engineers.

Responsibilities

• Write, maintain, and extend automated test suites for an owned module using Cucumber, TypeScript, and Cypress, with Playwright in some areas.
• Own day-to-day quality: contribute test scenarios during planning, test stories as they are built, and communicate clear release readiness.
• Design and document test cases covering functional, regression, and integration scenarios and keep them useful as the product evolves.
• Investigate and reproduce defects, raise well‑evidenced bug reports in JIRA, and verify fixes with developers and scientists.
• Keep automated tests green and trustworthy in CI pipelines and help improve how tests run and report.
• Read and interpret API documentation and translate it into meaningful automated coverage.
• Perform manual exploratory testing alongside automation work.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of experience in QA or testing, including at least one year of hands‑on test automation.
• Practical experience with Cypress, including selectors, custom commands, debugging failures, and working within an existing Page Object Model; React testing experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript, including asynchronous code such as promises and async/await.
• Experience with BDD and Cucumber, or willingness to learn quickly; most specs are written in Gherkin.
• Comfort with Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, and code review, plus experience with JIRA or similar tracking tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with Playwright, API testing tools such as Postman, or performance and load testing with K6 or similar.
• Familiarity with validating data integrity across release upgrades, migrations, or schema changes.
• A background or interest in science, engineering, or research software.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-friendly, collaborative global environment with more than 800 colleagues supporting customers in over 180 countries.
• Equal opportunity employer welcoming candidates from all backgrounds.