[Hiring] Software Development Engineer in Test @Dotmatics

Role Description

We are seeking an SDET to join one of our agile engineering teams and help us build quality into LUMA, our scientific software platform. You'll take ownership of testing for a specific module of the application — writing and maintaining automated tests, exploring new features, and working alongside developers, application scientists, and DevOps engineers to ensure reliability.

This is a hands-on automation role with room to grow. You'll be contributing to established test frameworks rather than building them from scratch, with support from senior SDETs who will help you develop your technical depth and your understanding of the science behind the product.

While the primary focus is automation, the role also involves manual exploratory testing — especially for early-stage features and areas of high scientific complexity.

In this role you will get to:

• Write, maintain and extend automated test suites for your module using Cucumber, TypeScript, and Cypress (and Playwright where we use it).
• Own day-to-day quality for your area: contributing test scenarios during planning, testing stories as they're built, and giving the team a clear picture of release readiness.
• Design and document test cases that cover functional, regression, and integration scenarios, and keep them useful as the product evolves.
• Investigate and reproduce defects, raise well-evidenced bug reports in JIRA, and verify fixes with developers and scientists.
• Keep your tests green and trustworthy in our CI pipelines, and help improve how tests run and report.
• Learn to read and interpret API documentation and turn it into meaningful automated coverage.
• Work with leading experts in software development, scientific product management, and test automation — and be mentored by them.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years' experience in QA/testing, including at least a year of hands-on test automation.
• Comfortable working in a code-first way, enjoy digging into how things work, and happy asking questions when a domain is unfamiliar.
• Attention to detail and ability to devise a concrete approach to testing.
• Desire to improve and grow into a senior automation engineer over time.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Cypress — writing tests, using selectors and custom commands, debugging failures, and working within an existing Page Object Model.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript, including asynchronous code (promises, async/await).
• Experience with BDD / Cucumber, or willingness to pick it up quickly.
• Test case design and documentation skills.
• Comfort with Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, and code review.
• Experience working in JIRA or a similar tracking system.

Benefits

• Dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration.
• Opportunity to work with a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation.
• Mentorship from leading experts in software development and scientific product management.