Sr. Automation Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) 

Title

Sr. Automation Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET)

Duration

3 Months Contract to Hire

Type of Hire

Contract to Hire

Work Authorization

GC/USC

Work Location

You must be residing in any of these states and can work remotely from OR, ID, AZ, TX, GA, SC, NC, CA or VA. However, if you're located in Washington state and within a reasonable driving distance from Tukwila, we are requesting that you come into our HQ on Tuesdays & Wednesdays.

Work Hours

Must work in the PST Time Zone

Role

You will play an important role in improving the quality, stability, and reliability of BECU's digital platforms through automation and test engineering. As a senior member of the SIAM team, you will help reduce production issues, speed up releases, and improve the online and mobile banking experience for our members. You will use your experience to solve complex testing challenges, support quality strategies, and work closely with different teams. By providing leadership, mentoring others, and contributing hands on, you will help improve quality engineering practices across the organization. Better software leads to a better experience for our members.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Advanced Test Automation: You'll design, build, and maintain robust automated test frameworks, scripts, and test data models to expand automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort across releases.
• Ensure Testable, High Quality Design: You'll partner closely with developers, architects, and product owners to ensure systems and services are designed with testability, quality, and scalability in mind.
• Drive Quality Engineering Strategy: You'll help shape and execute the team's testing roadmap and vision, aligning QE practices across multiple SIAM teams and cross domain partners.
• Improve System Reliability: You'll analyze production issues, identify gaps across the testing stack, perform root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Champion CI/CD Integration: You'll ensure automated tests are seamlessly integrated into CI pipelines, executing reliably and supporting faster, more confident releases.
• Provide Technical Leadership: You'll review and approve automation code and test solutions, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with BECU standards while contributing to those standards.
• Mentor and Elevate Others: You'll coach and mentor SDETs, QA, and junior developers through code reviews, test design guidance, and hands on collaboration.
• Communicate with Impact: You'll present complex technical topics clearly to engineering and cross functional stakeholders, proactively highlighting risks, gaps, and readiness.
• Support Delivery and Triage: You'll lead and support testing efforts during releases, identify failure patterns, and collaborate in bug triage to drive issues to resolution.
• Operate with Accountability: You'll perform all responsibilities in accordance with BECU competencies, compliance, regulatory, and information protection requirements.
• This isn't just about ticking off tasks on a list. It's about making a significant, positive change in BECU's journey, where your contributions are valued, and your growth is continually fostered.

What to Expect

• The opportunity to own and influence QE strategy across multiple high impact digital platforms
• Exposure to complex, enterprise scale systems within online and mobile banking
• A role that values senior level autonomy, judgment, and leadership
• The ability to make a direct, visible impact on member experience and product stability
• A collaborative environment where engineering, product, and QE partner closely
• The chance to mentor and shape the next generation of quality engineers
• Support for innovation, continuous improvement, and responsible use of AI as a productivity tool
• A mission driven culture focused on members, trust, and long term impact

Skills

No. of Years of Experience

Detailed Write Up

Total No. of Years of Experience

Minimum five years of experience designing test plans, cases and writing automated tests in a team environment required.

Minimum five years of hands-on experience with programming and scripting languages such as C#, Python or JavaScript/Typescript and software development/QA in a Windows environment

Minimum four years of experience with continuous integration systems and test case management tools required

Experience testing applications and services with security automation frameworks preferred

Demonstrated experience developing and designing testing and automation frameworks supporting multiple application platforms

Demonstrated expertise in modern test automation frameworks and BDD practices, with strong experience using Playwright

Demonstrated expertise in modern test automation frameworks and BDD practices, with strong experience using Selenium

NUnit/MSTest/xUnit, PyTest/Jest, and SpecFlow/Gherkin (Please mention which skills used)

Demonstrated experience in unit testing, integration testing and performance testing

Experience using git, including performing code reviews, pull requests, and following branching standards such as Git Flow or Trunk-Based Development required

Demonstrated experience of relational database structures. Able to understand and construct SQL queries

Proficient verbal and written skills to effectively communicate