What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead SDET position at SoftPath Technologies LLC?
Onsite in Boston, MA
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to architect, bootstrap, and scale robotics software testing organization. Define our overall test strategy, frameworks, and leveraging AI tools and AWS cloud CI/CD pipelines to accelerate automation.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Strategy & Leadership: Assess complex requirements to design end-to-end test strategies (HIL, SIL, and simulation) and define quality gates.
- Hands-On Testing: Design, build, and debug robust test frameworks from scratch; root-cause complex failures across software, hardware, and physical sensors.
- AI-Driven Automation: Leverage modern AI coding tools and LLMs to rapidly bootstrap test frameworks and automate boilerplate testing with minimal overhead.
- AWS CI/CD Pipelines: Setup and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing AWS developer tools (e.g., CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ECS) to scale simulation and testing.
Key Qualifications
- Robotics SW Testing: Hands-on QA experience with physical Robotics platforms (ROS/ROS2, Python, Linux, and simulation tools).
- Framework Architecture: Proven track record of designing test frameworks from scratch for hardware-constrained systems.
- AI Tool Fluency: Experience using modern AI assistants (e.g. Cursor) to bootstrap productivity.
- AWS & DevOps: Strong experience setting up cloud-based CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments (Docker)