Sr. Engineer, SDET

About the Role

UST is searching for a Sr Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and sustaining automated testing solutions that ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of software systems throughout the development and sustainment lifecycle.

Opportunity

• Design, develop, and maintain automation systems and tools to be used by development and test engineers.
• Analyze code coverage using industry-standard tools (e.g., SonarQube).
• Oversee integration of automated tests into the Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Design and author test cases for unit, functional, performance, scalability, and durability testing.
• Design, build, and operate AI agents that automate software engineering testing tasks such as generating boilerplate code for new microservices, creating unit and API tests, analyzing logs, triaging incidents, and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and groom automated and manual test suites for balanced coverage and fast feedback cycles.
• Work with IT partner teams to provide, create, or modify test data through repeatable, automated processes.
• Provide internal training on testing skills and tools; contribute to the Test Community of Practice to evolve testing practices and standards.
• Lead defect management and interface with external teams on test strategy and execution.
• Ensure requirements and/or user stories are testable and provide estimates for user stories and tasks.
• Coordinate with Dev and Ops regarding testing practices to ensure quality thresholds are met.
• Contribute to design and code reviews.

What You Need (Must-Have Skills)

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 5–7 years of experience using Java, JavaScript.
• 5–7 years of experience using any two Monitoring or Observability Tools - Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or others.
• 5–7 years of experience with three or more automation tools (e.g., Karate, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Postman).
• 5–7 years of experience with testing methodologies such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD), API Testing, Acceptance Testing, end to end testing.
• 5–7 years of experience using issue-tracking software and Agile project management systems (JIRA).
• Strong Proficiency with SQL (querying, joins, stored procedures) and testing databases (Oracle, Snowflake).
• Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude and Cursor or similar IDE) and working knowledge of foundation models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI agent development.

Nice to Have

• Good experience working in cloud native environments.
• Good experience testing third party tools such as One Trust.
• Working knowledge using CA Service Virtualization or equivalent.
• Experience with AI to build and execute automated test cases and improve productivity.

Pay

Role Location: Texas. Compensation Range: $68,000–$102,000.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
• Eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• Full-time regular employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
• Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).