Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

About the role

Join Filevine's Telephony team as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). In this role, you will own quality across a range of surfaces, from backend services and integrations to customer-facing applications and AI-driven voice experiences. You will design and write test plans and automated test scripts, analyze and improve the testing pipeline, and provide leadership and mentoring to other engineers. This is a backend-leaning, tooling-heavy role for an engineer who wants to solve hard testing problems and raise the quality bar for the entire team. Key missions: Design and write test plans and automated test scripts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications.. Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline.. Independently identify opportunities for automated testing at different levels (End to End, Integration, UI, etc.) and possible solutions. Profile: - The ideal engineer is equally at home driving rigorous backend and API testing, validating customer-facing applications, and inventing new approaches to test systems that resist conventional, UI-driven automation - Practical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challenges - Expert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLC - Expert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java - 7+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineer - Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques - Expert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testing - Demonstrated ability to design and build custom test tooling and harnesses for systems that are difficult to exercise through conventional automation, including asynchronous and event-driven services - Expert experience testing REST web services - Complete understanding of the application development life cycle - Experience testing telephony, VoIP, or other real-time communication systems - Experience testing AI-driven, conversational, or agent-based applications - Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks - Expert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mocking - Expert understanding of source control systems (GitLab) and CI/CD pipelines - Expert understanding of automated testing frameworks such as Playwright