Senior SDET Engineer

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About the Role

As a Senior SDET Engineer, you’ll develop and maintain test automation frameworks for enterprise web, mobile, and API platforms. You’ll collaborate with distributed teams to enforce best practices in quality, speed, and reliability. Through curiosity and positivity, you’ll ensure seamless, high-quality product experiences for global clients.

Responsibilities:

• Developing Test Plans
• Create and maintain comprehensive test plans for complex programs with numerous test cases.
• Define and document test requirements and design strategies to address various functional and non-functional areas.
• QA Strategy and Continuous Improvement
• Establish and define the QA strategy for the team and projects.
• Implement, test, and adjust quality strategies as needed to continuously improve the quality assurance process.
• Implementation of Testing Practices
• Apply and promote best practices in both manual and automated testing.
• Design and execute tests to ensure complete coverage of functionalities and early defect detection.
• Collaboration in Agile Methodologies
• Work closely with Agile teams to integrate QA processes into the Agile development cycle.
• Facilitate quality review meetings and provide constructive feedback.
• Development and Management of Test Automation
• Design, implement, and maintain test automation frameworks using Playwright.
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline.

 

About You

The essentials:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years as an SDET Engineer, or other relevant role specializing in test automation.
• Strong familiarity with the Mac and iOS ecosystem.
• Experience testing across multiple platforms, including web, mobile, and native macOS applications.
• Proven hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium, and other modern test automation frameworks.
• Experience with TypeScript, Swift, Python, Ruby, and other modern programming languages.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Ability to design comprehensive test plans and prioritize test cases based on risk and impact in complex projects.
• Experience testing with BDD frameworks like Behave and Gherkin.
• Proficiency using Jenkins or comparable CI tools.
• Strong collaboration skills in distributed, agile environments.
• Good understanding of development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and QA processes.
• Good debugging and troubleshooting skills with a passion for quality.
• Strong interpersonal skills, facilitating clear and effective communication across team members and departments. Consulting background preferred.

 

At.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

 

What We Offer

.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. .Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

BAY AREA salary range

$130.000 — $170.000 USD

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

 

 

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

 

Salary Range$130,000—$170,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

 

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.