Senior SDET (QA Engineer)

Role overview
Huron is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Senior SDET) to join its product
engineering team. You will own the test automation strategy and framework architecture, ensuring
reliability and accuracy across complex application workflows. Embedded in Agile delivery teams
alongside developers, product managers, and designers, you bring a software engineering mindset to
quality problems and set the quality bar the whole team works toward.
Primary responsibilities
Test strategy and technical leadership
 Define and own the test strategy, framework architecture, and tooling roadmap for
assigned product areas.
 Translate business requirements into traceable test cases across functional,
regression, integration, and end-to-end dimensions; lead test plan reviews with
developers, product owners, and project managers.
 Define test coverage metrics and quality gates; produce risk-based release readiness
reports for engineering leadership at each milestone.

Test automation and AI-assisted engineering
 AI-assisted development: Leverage GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and comparable AI
coding assistants to accelerate test script authorship, generate edge-case scenarios,
and perform intelligent code review.
 AI agentic testing: Configure and evaluate agentic workflows for autonomous test
generation and self-healing locators; apply Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect
AI agents to test tools, APIs, and data sources for end-to-end agentic test workflows;
define system instructions, skills, and tool configurations for AI coding agents.
 Architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright,
or Cypress for UI; REST Assured or similar for APIs; integrate into CI/CD pipelines via
Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
 Write complex SQL queries to validate backend data integrity in PostgreSQL (using
DBeaver); build data-driven test suites for parallel and cross-browser execution.

Defect management, collaboration, and mentorship
 Isolate, document, and track defects in Azure DevOps; lead exploratory testing
sessions and root-cause analysis on escaped defects.
 Serve as quality engineering lead across Agile delivery teams; participate in sprint
planning, backlog grooming, standups, and retrospectives.
 Conduct code reviews and coach developers and team members on shift-left testing
practices and quality engineering standards.

Senior SDET
Job Description | Technology | Higher Education

Required qualifications
Core
 B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science, MIS, or related discipline; 4 to 7 years in software
quality engineering with the majority in test automation and framework development
on a commercial product.
 Production-quality automation code in C#, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript;
proficiency with Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress; API testing with REST Assured,
Postman, or SoapUI.
 CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins); strong Git
skills; cross-browser testing with BrowserStack or equivalent; solid SQL skills for
database validation.
 Deep understanding of QA lifecycle and Agile/Iterative delivery; clear communicator
able to produce test strategies and quality summaries for both technical and non-
technical audiences.
 Demonstrated experience with performance engineering, scalability design, and
observability practices (logging, metrics, distributed tracing) in production systems.
 Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway,
CloudWatch, and related cloud-native tooling.

AI and agentic development tools
 Practical daily use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor) to
write, refactor, and review test code; proven ability to craft effective prompts and
system instructions.
 Solid understanding of AI agents, skills, and tool-calling; familiarity with Model
Context Protocol (MCP) — ability to connect AI models to internal tools, APIs, and
test infrastructure for multi-step agentic workflows; working knowledge of an LLM
API or orchestration framework (Anthropic API, LangChain, or similar) is a strong
plus.

Preferred qualifications
 Performance and/or security testing (JMeter, k6, OWASP ZAP); TDD/BDD
methodologies (Cucumber, Reqnroll); containerized test environments (Docker,
Kubernetes).
 Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript; familiarity with Visual Studio and the
Microsoft development ecosystem; ISTQB certification or equivalent credential.
 Knowledge of AWS services (SNS, S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.) is an advantage; familiarity
with cloud-based test environment provisioning and infrastructure as code.