SDET

• We are looking for an SDET with a strong engineering mindset to join our product development team

• This role sits at the intersection of product understanding test design and software engineering working closely with developers DevOps and product managers on a mission critical cybersecurity SaaS platform

• The ideal candidate is not a button clicker but someone who can read specifications reason about system behavior anticipate edge cases build reliable automation and make quality a first class concern from day one of every sprint
  
  

What You Will Do:

• Design build and maintain structured test cases derived from product specifications acceptance criteria and technical designs

• Translate product requirements and implementation logic into meaningful test coverage including edge cases state transitions and negative scenarios

• Architect develop and maintain scalable reusable automated test suites with a strong focus on API integration and end to end testing using Playwright

• Actively analyze defects

• Reproduce issues reliably

• Investigate root causes across UI API and backend layers

• Provide actionable insights to developers

• Ensure test work is visible and traceable within the development lifecycle by linking test cases execution results and defects to requirements development tasks and releases

• Participate in refinement grooming and release discussions to ensure quality is built in early

• Maintain accurate and up to date test documentation and execution results in TestRail and Playwright
  
  

What Were Looking For:

• Core Skills Mindset

• 3-6 years of experience in software quality engineering with a clear shift toward automation and test engineering

• Strong analytical and systems thinking skills

• Ability to craft test cases from specifications

• Comfortable reasoning about

• Data flows

• State transitions

• Business rules

• Failure modes

• Confidence in debugging and issue analysis including reading logs inspecting API responses and isolating root causes

• Clear communicator who can explain why something fails not just that it fails

• Automation Engineering

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks with Playwright strongly preferred

• Proficiency in API and integration testing Postman RestAssured or similar

• Solid programming skills in JavaScript strongly preferred

• Experience with CICD pipelines and test execution orchestration GitHub Actions GitLab CICD

• Understanding of middle tier testing APIs interacting directly with databases and external services
  
  

Collaboration Process:

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams

Comfortable working closely with:

• Developers

• Product managers

• DevOps

• Values quality as a shared team responsibility not a final gate

• Comfortable working in a domain with complex configuration driven workflows and security sensitive data
  
  

Tools Technologies:

• Test Management TestRail

• Work Tracking Azure Boards

• Automation Playwright API testing frameworks

• CICD GitHub Actions Jenkins or GitLab CICD

• Testing Types Functional regression exploratory integration and API testing
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Performance testing experience

• Security testing familiarity

• Experience with SaaS platforms security products or complex configuration driven systems

• AI tooling for test optimization failure analysis or coverage insights
  
  

What Success Looks Like:

• Automated test suites are reliable maintainable and provide real signal not noise

• Test cases clearly reflect product logic and system behavior

• Defects are reported with precision context and actionable insight

• Quality work is visible respected and integrated into the development process

• CICD pipelines have meaningful quality gates the team trusts and relies on

• Fewer surprises late in the release cycle
  
  

Why Join Us:

• Work on a mission critical cybersecurity platform

• Be part of an engineering culture that values thinking reasoning and engineering judgment

• Collaborate with experienced developers and engineers in a mature evolving quality practice

• Real ownership shape automation strategy influence testability and make quality visible at every level

• Opportunity to grow toward Senior SDET or Test Architect paths over time

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $18.89/hour - $29.52/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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