Software Development Engineer in Test Contractor (SDET Contractor)

SDET (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for backend services and APIs. The ideal candidate is a strong Java engineer with deep testing expertise, capable of working closely with developers, product owners, and scrum teams to ensure high-quality delivery of complex services and integrations.

This role involves building robust automation, validating API contracts and flows, working with microservice-based systems, and contributing to continuous integration and quality strategies.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and backend test suites using Java.

• Write high-quality JUnit tests for RESTful APIs, service layers, and backend components.

• Validate API schemas, request/response structures, and error-handling scenarios.

• Create and execute API automation covering functional, regression, and integration layers.

• Collaborate with developers to ensure testability, observability, and quality in new feature design.

• Analyze logs, metrics, and service behavior to diagnose and troubleshoot failures.

• Participate in Agile processes: refinement, planning, retrospectives, and daily scrums.

• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines through automation and quality gates.

• Contribute to scaling QE across microservices by building reusable test components and libraries.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent practical experience.

• 3+ years of experience in software QE, test automation, or development roles.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative Scrum team

• Interest in working as part of an agile, collaborative and cross-functional team that works on modern software design and development

• Exposure to version control systems (preferably Git)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Skills:

• Strong experience with Java programming (advanced OOP concepts, collections, generics, lambdas).

• Hands-on experience writing tests with JUnit (JUnit5 preferred).

• Expertise in API testing for REST-based services (familiarity with gRPC is a plus).

• Solid understanding of API schema validation, including OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.

• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks for backend or microservice architectures.

• Familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills. Including analyzing logs and diagnosing service failures.

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Preferred Skills (Good to Have):

• Experience designing test plans, writing detailed test scenarios, and performing domain-driven test analysis.

• Familiarity with Spring Boot–based micro services and common backend service patterns.

• Experience using IntelliJ IDEA or similar Java-focused development environments.

• Hands-on experience with log analysis and observability tools (Splunk preferred).

• Understanding of gRPC service testing and related tooling.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS).

• Exposure to writing scripts using Python or Node.js 

• Exposure to a web-front-end technology such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS