Hybrid Senior Software Developer in Test, SDET

at SafetyChain Software

• Job title: Senior Software Developer in Test, SDET
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, JMeter, Selenium, SQL, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Senior SDET driving quality engineering initiatives at SafetyChain Software. Focusing on automation, performance improvements, and leveraging AI tools for testing delivery.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end automated testing frameworks for web and mobile applications using TypeScript with Playwright and WebDriverIO.
• Implement and evolve test approaches across functional, regression, integration, UI, performance, and load testing layers.
• Integrate and maintain automated tests within our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions.
• Analyze performance testing using JMeter and proactively identify bottlenecks.
• Own test case traceability using Xray and drive release testing from inception through delivery.
• Serve as a technical go-to person for automation and tooling, offering code reviews, best practices, and implementation guidance.
• Support observability, diagnostics, and issue triage in production environments alongside DevOps and Product teams.
• Test data-warehouse and analytics pipelines, reviewing transformations, metric logic, and end-to-end data flow.
• Perform data-quality validation (accuracy, completeness, consistency, schema evolution).
• Collaborate with data engineering on data contracts to ensure reliable and trustworthy analytics outputs.
• Identify quality gaps and independently drive solutions to completion with minimal oversight.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate automation, analysis, debugging, data validation, and documentation across the testing lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years in QA , including 3+ years as an SDET with demonstrated senior-level ownership of automation and delivery.
• Expertise in automated testing and framework design , with strong TypeScript skills and experience in Playwright and Selenium (or equivalent).
• Strong experience with REST API testing , including test orchestration, mocking, contract testing, and integration validation.
• Hands-on performance and load-testing experience using JMeter, with the ability to interpret results and identify bottlenecks.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience integrating automation into GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience validating complex datasets , business logic transformations, and multi-stage data flows.
• Experience with BDD/Gherkin and abstraction of test definitions , including designing structured, maintainable, reusable test flows.
• Experience with tools such as Xray, GitHub, Azure DevOps, SonarCloud, DataDog.
• Fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools (copilots, test-generation assistants, log-analysis agents) and the ability to use AI to meaningfully increase testing velocity and insight.
• Proven ability to work autonomously , drive work to completion, and make progress without heavy direction.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly based on changing priorities, projects, or organizational goals.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plan
• Opportunity for stock options
• Health benefits
• Self Care PTO Plan
• Flex Schedule
• Work From Home Flexibility
• Fast growing tech company with big opportunity
• Great team and culture
• Rewarding work that is solving an important problem
• Annual investment in your professional development