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(196948) Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (Lead SDET)

Chicago, Illinois, United States💼 Full-time💰 $140,000–$165,000🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and maintaining automated testing frameworks and strategies for software systems and infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Builds

Automated test suites, CI/CD pipelines, and API test frameworks

Domain

Software Engineering / Quality Assurance

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Java, Cucumber, JBehave, REST API testing, SQL, JMeter, End-to-end integration testing

Preferred skills

Python, AWS Cloud, TDD, Jenkins, Git, Microservices, Load testing

Technologies

Java, JavaScript, Cucumber, JBehave, JMeter, Karate, Apigee, AWS, Jenkins, Git

Responsibilities

Extend testing automation frameworks, develop test automation code for CI/CD, plan and design API test automation frameworks, provide technical leadership and mentoring to test engineers, perform exploratory and manual testing, coordinate with product owners to resolve issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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