[Hiring] Senior SDET @Encora

Role Description

Are you passionate about quality, automation, and building frameworks from scratch? At Encora, we are looking for a Senior SDET to join a highly skilled and agile engineering team. You will play a key role in ensuring product quality, improving automation, and strengthening our CI systems, with direct impact on product stability and customer experience.

• Debug software products using systematic testing to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards.
• Develop, modify, and execute software test plans, automated scripts, and testing programs.
• Contribute to existing automation tools by adding enhancements and improving maintainability.
• Maintain test result documentation to support debugging and software modifications.
• Analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective actions.
• Collaborate with development engineers to resolve technical issues.
• Provide feedback for technical evaluations of programming languages, systems, and computation software.
• Ensure quality integration across scientific computation, data acquisition, and data processing systems.
• Maintain and improve automated testing and continuous integration systems.
• Collaborate with security and software engineering teams to develop system-level testing.
• Interface with sales teams and customers to recreate, diagnose, and help resolve field issues.
• Learn and adopt new technologies as needed to build tools and improve efficiency and productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, including:
• At least 3 years as an SDET.
• At least 2 years developing with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience building internal tools to improve developer experience and productivity.
• Excellent debugging skills, especially in multi-tier web architectures.
• Ability to adapt and work effectively in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Comfort writing and reading code, with a basic understanding of data structures.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience writing backend integration tests for RESTful APIs.
• Frontend test automation expertise using TestCafe, Cypress, Playwright, or similar tools (Playwright is preferred).
• Experience using BDD tools such as Cucumber integrated with automation frameworks.
• CI tooling experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of source control and release management in testing contexts (Git).
• Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies (Docker).
• Understanding of Lean and Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience analyzing logs using Splunk and/or GCP.

Requirements

• Nice to have:
• Experience testing cloud-based products or applications.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of VPNs.
• Experience with load and performance testing.

Benefits

• Career growth: Work on high-impact global projects using modern and emerging technologies.
• Multicultural environment: Collaborate with talented teams across LATAM and the U.S.
• Learning culture: Continuous learning through mentoring, certifications, and internal tech talks.
• Flexibility: Remote LATAM work model (project-dependent).
• Innovation-driven mindset: A culture focused on continuous improvement and technical excellence.