Software Development Engineer in Test Contractor (SDET Contractor)
$120,640–$149,760 year
On-siteLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and backend test suites using Java. 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.
Required 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
- 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
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Qualifications
- 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)
- 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)
- Exposure to writing scripts using Python or Node.js
- Exposure to a web-front-end technology such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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