Software Development Engineer in Test Contractor (SDET Contractor)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for backend services and APIs.
• Write high-quality JUnit tests for RESTful APIs, service layers, and backend components.
• Validate API schemas, request/response structures, and error-handling scenarios.
• Create and execute API automation covering functional, regression, and integration layers.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure testability, observability, and quality in new feature design.
• Analyze logs, metrics, and service behavior to diagnose and troubleshoot failures.
• Participate in Agile processes: refinement, planning, retrospectives, and daily scrums.
• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines through automation and quality gates.
• Contribute to scaling QE across microservices by building reusable test components and libraries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software QE, test automation, or development roles.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative Scrum team.
• Interest in working as part of an agile, collaborative and cross-functional team that works on modern software design and development.
• Exposure to version control systems (preferably Git).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Including analyzing logs and diagnosing service failures.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Java programming (advanced OOP concepts, collections, generics, lambdas).
• Hands-on experience writing tests with JUnit (JUnit5 preferred).
• Expertise in API testing for REST-based services (familiarity with gRPC is a plus).
• Solid understanding of API schema validation, including OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks for backend or microservice architectures.
• Familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills. Including analyzing logs and diagnosing service failures.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing test plans, writing detailed test scenarios, and performing domain-driven test analysis.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot–based micro services and common backend service patterns.
• Experience using IntelliJ IDEA or similar Java-focused development environments.
• Hands-on experience with log analysis and observability tools (Splunk preferred).
• Understanding of gRPC service testing and related tooling.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS).
• Experience writing scripts using Python or Node.js.
• Exposure to a web-front-end technology such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Pay

The estimated base pay range for this role is $58—$72 USD per hour.

Benefits

This role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision.