SDET (Software Development Engineer in Testing)

Mobile Wave Solutions is a professional services company specialising in software development as a service. We are committed to delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients. With a growing team of over 120 engineers and a mission to empower businesses globally, we provide expert teams to deliver robust solutions and drive innovation.

Role Overview

The SDET is a key quality owner responsible for defining and driving the testing strategy across the company’s microservice ecosystem.  The SDET must be an expert communicator, comfortable challenging developers and improving the team’s quality culture. A crucial aspect of the role is validating all functionality with robust test coverage and defining the overall automation strategy from scratch.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and Implement Testing Strategy: Act as the quality owner and define the comprehensive testing strategy for the entire microservice ecosystem. This includes designing and implementing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Develop Robust Test Automation: Utilize expertise in Playwright, API, and UI testing to build, improve, and maintain reliable, robust test coverage for microservices, APIs, gateways, and asynchronous systems.
• Ensure AI-Generated Code Quality: Design and implement test coverage to validate AI-generated functionality and ensure the quality and stability of the code produced by AI agents
• Drive Quality Culture and Standards: Challenge developers and proactively improve the team’s overall quality culture and testing standards
• CI/CD Pipeline Support: Collaborate with and support developers in building, improving, and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines , leveraging GitHub Actions for automation
• Cloud Deployment Validation: Apply knowledge of AWS environments (Fargate, EKS) to validate cloud deployments
• Handle Ambiguity: Comfortably work with minimal requirements and translate them into effective automation frameworks and test plans
• Performance and Advanced Testing: Utilize performance testing experience (a plus) to ensure system scalability and reliability

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Playwright, automated API & UI testing
• Java or TypeScript test automation background
• Experience in testing microservices, APIs, gateways, and asynchronous systems
• CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions)
• Knowledge of AWS environments (Fargate, EKS) and cloud deployment validation
• Performance testing experience is a plus
• Ability to define automation strategy from scratch

Cultural Fit

• Acts as a quality owner, not just a test executor
• Able to design a testing strategy for the entire microservice ecosystem
• Comfortable working with minimal requirements and defining automation frameworks
• Strong communicator who challenges developers and improves team quality culture
• Able to validate AI-generated functionality with robust test coverage
• Support developers in building, improving, and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines

Our Benefits

• Remote / Hybrid work options
• Private Health Insurance, including dental
• Free Parking
• Fun Office Space – game zone + relaxation area
• Annual Holidays Boost – +5 extra days after year 1 and year 5
• Company-sponsored training & certifications
• Employee referral bonuses
• Social & team events
• Family insurance coverage options
• Fully covered Multisport Card