The Software Developer in Test (SDET) at Assent is a quality-first role that bridges Product and Engineering teams. The candidate will deeply understand customer journeys, challenge requirements for testability, and build scalable test automation solutions to ensure high-quality software delivery.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate early with Product, Development, and Data teams during discovery and refinement
- Review and challenge requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure they are testable, complete, and reflect real customer journeys
- Identify risks, edge cases, and coverage gaps before they become production issues
- Lead exploratory testing and business-flow simulations in complex or ambiguous areas
- Translate business requirements into meaningful test strategies and risk assessments
- Design and implement automated tests across API, UI, performance, and end-to-end layers
- Develop automated coverage using tools such as C#, Playwright, NBomber, and JMeter
- Work closely with developers to strengthen test coverage in the upper layers of the test pyramid
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements and automation environment setup
- Maintain meaningful test metrics focused on escapes, performance, and coverage trends
- Perform triage and root cause analysis for test failures and production defects
- Partner with Support and Engineering to prevent repeat issues
- Lead reviews of test results and outstanding risks to assess release readiness
- Maintain traceability and test evidence aligned with ISO9001 and SOC2 standards
What We're Looking For
- Strong QA Analyst mindset
- Ability to collaborate with Product, Development, and Data teams
- Experience reviewing and challenging requirements and acceptance criteria
- Proven ability to identify risks, edge cases, and coverage gaps
- Experience leading exploratory testing and business-flow simulations
- Ability to translate business requirements into test strategies and risk assessments
- Experience designing and implementing automated tests across API, UI, performance, and end-to-end layers
- Proficiency with tools such as C#, Playwright, NBomber, and JMeter
- Experience working with developers to improve test coverage
- Experience contributing to CI/CD pipeline improvements
- Ability to maintain test metrics on escapes, performance, and coverage trends
- Experience performing triage and root cause analysis for test failures and production defects
- Proven ability to partner with Support and Engineering to prevent recurring issues
- Experience leading reviews of test results and assessing release readiness
- Experience maintaining traceability and test evidence per ISO9001 and SOC2 standards
Technical Stack
- C#
- Playwright
- NBomber
- JMeter
