Sr. Software Engineer in Test

About the role

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET) to join a leading cybersecurity and compliance-focused organization. The Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET) will lead quality engineering efforts for a platform that provides real-time visibility into Common Criteria (CC) certification programs, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and accuracy of project tracking, reporting, workflow automation, and certification data across multiple concurrent evaluations. This is a long-term contract opportunity requiring on-site work in RTP, NC two days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the overall test strategy while building and maintaining automated testing frameworks from scratch for web applications, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines.
• Develop automated regression, integration, functional, end-to-end, performance, and reliability test suites to validate workflows, project tracking, reporting dashboards, notifications, and data synchronization.
• Validate integrations with Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Confluence, GitHub, and other enterprise platforms while ensuring data integrity, auditability, and security requirements are met.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish quality gates within CI/CD pipelines, participate in architecture reviews, troubleshoot defects, and contribute to observability, monitoring, and quality metrics.
• Mentor engineers on test automation best practices and quality engineering principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Engineering, or SDET roles.
• Proven experience creating and implementing a test automation framework from scratch.
• Strong programming experience with Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or C#.
• Experience with API testing, automated testing frameworks, enterprise web applications, distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Common Criteria, cybersecurity compliance, regulated environments, Docker, Kubernetes, or security testing is preferred.

Pay

$120,000 – $145,000, depending on experience

Benefits

• Full comprehensive benefits including health, vision, and dental coverage
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holiday and sick leave if required by law