Role: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Work Hours: Overlap with US PST
Engagement Type: Full-time (40 hours/week)
Remote: Yes, 100%

Design, develop, execute, and maintain scalable automated test suites across:
Component-level testing
API and service-level testing
Integration testing
End-to-end functional testing
Regression and release-validation testing
Non-functional, resiliency, and performance-testing support
Build and maintain high-quality automation code using Java and/or Python.
Work within Illumio's existing Java/Selenium automation framework and contribute recommendations for framework modernization, tooling improvements, execution stability, and test strategy.
Take ownership of test automation frameworks, including reusable libraries, framework architecture, test data, reporting, test execution reliability, and maintainability.
Partner with software engineers, product managers, and quality leadership to define testable requirements, identify quality risks, and build quality into the software development lifecycle.
Develop and execute API, integration, and UI test automation using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST/API testing libraries, or comparable technologies.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and improve quality gates, reporting, release readiness, and feedback cycles.
identify whether the root cause is related to the application, service/API, test automation, environment, test data, infrastructure, or an external dependency.
Support release sign-off by clearly communicating test results, risk assessments, defects, coverage gaps, and release recommendations.
Allocate approximately 20% of capacity to performance-testing support, including workload execution, baseline analysis, bottleneck identification, and collaboration with developers and infrastructure teams.
Contribute to testing of cloud-native, distributed, and service-oriented applications, including failure handling, resiliency, scalability, and dependency behavior.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, eliminate flaky tests, improve developer productivity, and increase automation coverage and engineering velocity.
4+ years of experience in Software Development Engineering in Test, Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or test automation

Experience supporting SaaS, cloud-based, enterprise software, distributed-system, or cybersecurity products.
Strong programming skills in Java and/or Python, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and reusable automation code.
Hands-on experience with web/UI automation tools such as:
Selenium
Cypress
Or comparable modern automation frameworks
Strong experience developing automated tests at multiple layers, including:
API testing
Component-level testing
Integration testing
End-to-end functional testing
Regression and release-validation testing
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and working in Git-based development environments.
Familiarity with cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, containers, or distributed services.
Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications, APIs, backend services, test frameworks, cloud infrastructure, environments, test data, and third-party dependencies.
Familiarity with performance-testing concepts, including throughput, latency, concurrency, response-time analysis, workload design, and bottleneck investigation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate test status, release risks, root-cause findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience building, owning, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks.

Software Development Engineer - Remote

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