Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Filevine·about 2 months ago
Role Summary:
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. 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 automation. 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.
Responsibilities
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Design and write test plans and automated test scripts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications
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Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline
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Design and implement automated test frameworks
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Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing
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Responsibly drive complex projects forward to completion
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Exercise independent judgment
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Make informed recommendations to management
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Provide leadership and mentoring to other engineers
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Independently identify opportunities for automated testing at different levels (End to End, Integration, UI, etc.) and possible solutions
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Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences on usability, serviceability, and suggested changes
Qualifications:
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7+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineer
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Expert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java
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Complete understanding of the application development life cycle
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Expert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLC
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Expert experience testing REST web services
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Expert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testing
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Demonstrated 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 services
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Practical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challenges
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Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques
Nice to Have:
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Experience testing telephony, VoIP, or other real-time communication systems
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Experience testing AI-driven, conversational, or agent-based applications
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Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks
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Expert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mocking
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Expert understanding of source control systems (GitLab) and CI/CD pipelines
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Expert understanding of automated testing frameworks such as Playwright
Market context
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What Senior Engineering roles in Americas pay
- 25th
- $145k
- Median
- $173k
- 75th
- $202k
Based on 7,660 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.
How Filevine is hiring
- Last 90 days
- 35 roles
- Total tracked
- 148
- Hiring across
- 9 job families
Tracked since September 2021.