Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Description

Frontier Direct is a Texas-based direct primary care company delivering integrated care through proprietary technology. The company operates in a value-based care model serving self-insured employers, combining clinical delivery with a vertically integrated platform that handles member engagement, provider workflows, billing reconciliation, and medical review automation — positioning for scale to 120,000 lives while building measurable ROI systems for sponsor retention and institutional capital readiness.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will drive day-to-day quality strategy and automation execution for Frontier's clinical and operational platform and own the quality assurance interface between engineering and stakeholders — designing comprehensive test plans, building scalable automation frameworks, and ensuring software quality throughout the SDLC. This is a key quality advocate role within an engineering organization operating in a regulated healthcare environment where HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 control requirements are first-class concerns, not afterthoughts.

What You'll Own

• Test Planning: Author detailed test plans and test cases for new features, integrations, and regression cycles — covering functional, edge-case, and security-sensitive scenarios including PHI access controls and audit logging requirements
• Automation Development: Build and maintain automation frameworks for API and end-to-end testing; integrate suites into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality feedback
• Compliance-Aware Testing: Design test scenarios that account for PHI handling, access controls, and audit logging requirements aligned with HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II controls; support audit evidence collection as needed
• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track defects through resolution; partner with developers to reproduce issues and validate fixes
• Quality Advocacy: Participate in sprint ceremonies, contribute to story refinement with a quality lens, and champion shift-left testing practices across the team
• Tooling and Process: Evaluate and introduce testing tools that improve coverage, speed, and reliability; maintain clear documentation of test strategies and results
  
  

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a QA automation or in an SDET role
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable scripting language for test development
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites for REST APIs
• CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements as they relate to software testing — PHI data handling, access controls, and audit trails
• Ability to read application code to inform testing approach and identify risk areas
• Experience working in a fast paced, start up environment
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing healthcare data integrations (HL7, FHIR, EDI 837/835)
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II control frameworks and evidence collection for audits
• Experience with contract testing tools (e.g., Pact)
• GCP or cloud platform exposure
• Familiarity with AI assisted testing suites
• Security testing fundamentals (OWASP, penetration test support, vulnerability validation)
  
  

Benefits

• Frontier Membership for you and your immediate family
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and other supplemental insurances.
• 401(k) plan: Free access to financial wellness platforms that provide financial advisors personal finance tools
  
  

Time Off

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, which includes up to 5 unplanned days off per year
• 9 additional company holidays
• Parental Leave policy
  
  

At Frontier Direct Care, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.