SDET Test Automation Engineer

Job#: 3058951
Job Description:
SDET Test Automation Engineer
Location: Plano, Texas (Hybrid)
Alternate Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Role Overview
This organization is seeking a highly skilled Quality Engineering professional to support and advance our test automation, continuous testing, and artificial intelligence-assisted engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in software quality engineering, combining deep technical expertise with a strong engineering mindset to architect and maintain scalable automation solutions. You will lead efforts to progressively evolve traditional test automation toward intelligent, modern quality engineering practices while remaining hands-on with development, debugging, and framework design.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable automation frameworks covering user interface, API, integration, and end-to-end testing scenarios.
• Develop robust automation solutions using technologies including Java, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, REST Assured, and Python.
• Implement reusable framework components, utilities, test-data management systems, logging, reporting, exception handling, and configuration management.
• Apply appropriate framework patterns such as Page Object Model, data-driven testing, and behavior-driven development.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, maintainability, test coverage, execution speed, and scalability while actively identifying and eliminating flaky tests.
• Apply generative artificial intelligence and assisted engineering tools to improve overall software testing and engineering productivity.
• Leverage intelligent capabilities to accelerate requirements analysis, test scenario generation, automation scripting, API test creation, and defect root-cause investigation.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive regression-testing strategies using risk-based approaches to determine optimal regression scope and efficiency.

Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field is required.
Experience: A minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in software test automation engineering, framework development, and quality engineering is required.
Technical Skills: Proven hands-on expertise in Java, Selenium, Playwright, API automation, SQL, REST APIs, and modern CI/CD integration tools is required.
Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience leveraging Large Language Models and prompt-engineering techniques to accelerate test design, script generation, and code refactoring.
• Experience implementing advanced test optimization techniques, including change-impact analysis, test-impact analysis, and code-traceability mapping.

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