- Optro is looking for a full-time Senior SDET II

- This role will help architect, design and build automation, and integration tests to support backend services and infrastructure engineering quality and testing initiatives
- The responsibilities include creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and scripts based on API- and client-driven design specifications outlined in stories

- Success will be measured by driving adoption of standards and best practices for software test development, with material impact on product scalability, end user reliability, defect detection, and velocity of successful delivery of innovation

- Own technical components of test frameworks, test infrastructure and test tooling

- Design, create, maintain, and optimize test automation frameworks for Optro web applications

- Develop and lead synthetic data & generative AI strategy

- Design and implement high-level architectural roadmap to transition legacy test frameworks into self-healing, AI-driven ecosystems

- Develop deep understanding of the system’s code structure and component interactions

- Evaluate, prototype, and implement cutting-edge agentic tooling to enhance test automation frameworks and test tooling

- Manage technical communications and provide technical mentorship for more junior SDETs

- Collaborate with horizontal (infrastructure, platform, architecture) teams and product teams

- Provide technical feedback on product design and architecture

- Offer feedback on the testability of functional elements

- Research test tools, frameworks, testing methodologies, and trends,



and upgrade existing practices and processes to meet the ever-evolving technological landscape

Benefits

- Health and wellness benefits: High quality health plans and access to hormonal and family-building support.

- Time away from work: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, and more.

- Financial perks: Beyond a competitive salary, plans are provided to assist in your financial future including retirement and pension plans as well as life and disability insurance.

- Parental leave: Parents are eligible for time off to care for their newborn, adopted child, or foster child. Parental leave benefits and pay vary by location.

- Career development: Continuously grow through development workshops, mentoring programs, and more.

- Community impact: We partner with communities to provide services in addition to sponsoring our own events.

- Live your best life: Invest in yourself, on us. Our monthly wellness stipend is designed to support your life beyond the screen, giving you the flexibility to fuel your passions and your well-being.

- Mental health: Access to Headspace’s well known meditation support plus coaching and therapy, for you and additional loved ones.




- The ideal candidate will be capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities
- To be successful as a Senior SDET II, you should have excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as strong communication and technical leadership skills

- You should have a passion for designing, developing, and testing code, as well as embracing and learning recent technologies

- 3+ years of experience with building test automation on technologies like NodeJS, NPM, etc

- 4+ years of experience using Playwright or Cypress required

- Experience with Agile-Scrum and other Agile methodologies

- Demonstrable experience in researching new technologies that might help improve the application, infrastructure, and/or team productivity

- 4+ years of experience coding with JavaScript and/or TypeScript (preferred)

- 9+ years proven work experience in Software Development in Test

- Strong technical skills and track record of architectural decisions

- Experience with testing web applications on AWS, Azure, or other Cloud services

- Demonstrable experience with debugging complex issues across multiple services or layers within an application stack

- 4+ years of experience in test automation in SaaS and/or B2B facing internet-based applications

- Good analytical skills to work with developers for troubleshooting and peer review

- Experience building infra-as-code automation technologies like: Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc

- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering (CS or EE) or equivalent experience

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