Senior SDET UI Engineer

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We are seeking a hands-on, collaborative Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to drive the UI automation strategy, framework architecture, and continuous improvement of our frontend quality practices. As Senior UI SDET, you will provide technical
leadership and guidance to the UI test automation team, ensuring robust, maintainable, and effective Playwright-based test suites for our modern web applications. This is a cross functional leadership role focused on UI quality, maintainability, and efficiency.

Core Qualities & Skills
• Proven experience in UI SDET or QA engineering teams and delivering complex UI automation projects
• Deep expertise in Playwright and the Page Object Model for UI automation
• Experience with data-driven testing approaches for UI, including test data creation and test data management
• Demonstrated ability to deliver maintainable, reliable, and efficient UI test suites
• Strong understanding of explicit waits, robust locator strategies, and atomic test design
• Experience with test reporting and analytics for UI automation
• Experience with risk-based testing and exploratory testing for UI
• Strong programming and scripting skills in relevant languages (e.g., TypeScript, JavaScript)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating UI automated tests into the SDLC
• Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines
• Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies
• System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs in UI test automation
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities
• Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change
• Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices

Preferred Qualifications
6+ years of hands-on UI SDET, QA, or software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Track record of handling and delivering scalable, reliable UI automation systems
• Experience with modern development and testing practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
• Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams
• Highly Desirable
• Experience testing non-deterministic systems, AI/ML outputs, or GenAI-powered UI features
• Experience using AI to accelerate the SDLC, UI test automation, and quality analysis
• Experience with test strategies for non-deterministic, probabilistic, or data-driven UI systems
• Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for UI test environments
• Familiarity with the Test Pyramid and balancing UI, integration, and unit tests
• Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence
• Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams