Quality Engineering Developer (SDET)
Location: Alpharetta, GA OR NYC, NY
About the Role
We are building an engineeringfirst Quality Engineering (QE) team focused on developergrade automation, system reliability, and production excellence across missioncritical platforms.
This is not a traditional QA role.
We hire developers who engineer quality, not testers who execute scripts.
You will design and build scalable quality engineering solutions, partner deeply with developers and architects, and ensure quality is designed in, automated, observable, and enforced across the SDLC.
What You ll Do
- Build scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, integration & eventdriven layers
- Act as a quality architect, influencing system design, testability & release readiness
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Engineer quality for distributed systems, microservices, and highavailability platforms
- Leverage AI / GenAI to accelerate test design, automation development, evaluation, and debugging
- Practice SpecDriven Development (SDD) to align specifications, implementation, and validation
- Own endtoend production quality, including release certification & incident triage
What We re Looking For (MustHave)
Core Engineering
- Expertlevel Java / Python (OOP, data structures, design patterns)
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch
- Handson Playwright experience for modern UI automation
- Strong API and integration testing (REST, microservices)
- CI/CD experience with automated quality gates (TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub)
- Solid understanding & proficiency with SQL, handling backend data stores and performing data validation
- Experience validating highavailability, lowlatency systems
- Practical, maintainable BDD implementations
Distributed Systems & Reliability
- Strong understanding of microservices and eventdriven architectures
- Experience with performance, load, stress, and resilience testing
- Ability to debug using logs, metrics, and traces
- Using production telemetry to guide quality strategy
AIDriven & SpecDriven Engineering (MustHave)
- Handson use of AI / GenAI tools for test design, automation coding, and debugging
- Strong AI evaluation skills validating AIgenerated code and tests
- Expertise in prompt engineering and context management
- Proven SpecDriven Development (SDD) experience
- Experience using and developing Agents, Skills and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
- Ability to embed AIassisted QE workflows safely into CI/CD
- Strong understanding of responsible AI usage and verification of AI outputs
Quality Ownership
- Experience with release certification, regression strategy, and production validation
- Handson incident triage and rootcause analysis
- Willingness to support production releases, including oncall rotations