Job Description
Are you passionate about quality, automation, and building frameworks from scratch At Encora, we are looking for a Senior SDET to join a highly skilled and agile engineering team.
You will play a key role in ensuring product quality, improving automation, and strengthening our CI systems, with direct impact on product stability and customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Debug software products using systematic testing to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards.
- Develop, modify, and execute software test plans, automated scripts, and testing programs.
- Contribute to existing automation tools by adding enhancements and improving maintainability.
- Maintain test result documentation to support debugging and software modifications.
- Analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective actions.
- Collaborate with development engineers to resolve technical issues.
- Provide feedback for technical evaluations of programming languages, systems, and computation software.
- Ensure quality integration across scientific computation, data acquisition, and data processing systems.
- Maintain and improve automated testing and continuous integration systems.
- Collaborate with security and software engineering teams to develop system-level testing.
- Interface with sales teams and customers to recreate, diagnose, and help resolve field issues.
- Learn and adopt new technologies as needed to build tools and improve efficiency and productivity.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, including:
- At least 3 years as an SDET.
- At least 2 years developing with JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience building internal tools to improve developer experience and productivity.
- Excellent debugging skills, especially in multi-tier web architectures.
- Ability to adapt and work effectively in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Comfort writing and reading code, with a basic understanding of data structures.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing automation frameworks from scratch.
- Experience writing backend integration tests for RESTful APIs.
- Frontend test automation expertise using TestCafe, Cypress, Playwright, or similar tools (Playwright is preferred).
- Experience using BDD tools such as Cucumber integrated with automation frameworks.
- CI tooling experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of source control and release management in testing contexts (Git).
- Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies (Docker).
- Understanding of Lean and Agile methodologies.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience analyzing logs using Splunk and/or GCP.
Nice to have:
- Experience testing cloud-based products or applications.
- Knowledge and understanding of different types of VPNs.
- Experience with load and performance testing.
What we offer at Encora:
- Career growth: Work on high-impact global projects using modern and emerging technologies.
- Multicultural environment: Collaborate with talented teams across LATAM and the U.S.
- Learning culture: Continuous learning through mentoring, certifications, and internal tech talks.
- Flexibility: Remote LATAM work model (project-dependent).
- Innovation-driven mindset: A culture focused on continuous improvement and technical excellence.
About Encora
Encora is a global digital engineering and modernization partner for leading enterprises and digital-native companies. With thousands of professionals worldwide, Encora delivers cutting-edge solutions across Product Engineering, Cloud Services, Data & Analytics, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, and AI.
At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.
