Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

About the role

As a Staff SDET at Circles.Life, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our backend systems. This position blends software development with testing, emphasizing testability, robustness, and performance of production code.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for backend APIs and workflows.
• Generate test cases and scripts, leveraging AI tools where applicable.
• Collaborate with product, QA, CI/CD and SRE teams to integrate automated tests into deployment pipelines.
• Perform manual functional testing for scoped scenarios when needed.
• Drive non‑functional testing activities such as performance, scalability, reliability and basic security testing.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering with a focus on test automation.
• Proficiency in Java; knowledge of Golang and NodeJS is a plus.
• Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC, Agile processes and CI/CD integration.

Required skills

• Java, Golang, NodeJS
• Selenium, REST Assured, Appium, TestNG
• Jenkins, Maven
• SQL, NoSQL databases, message queues, caching technologies
• API and UI automation, CI/CD pipelines