Sr. SDET Automation Engineer
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Yubico Inc.
Compensation
$140,000 - $165,000/year
Job Description
Meet Yubico: the creator of the most secure passkeys and leading provider of hardware authentication security keys. Our company’s mission is to make secure login easy and available for everyone. Yubico was founded in 2007 by Stina and Jakob Ehrensvard, and is public on Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market: YUBICO. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of government agencies and millions of individuals in over 160 countries that rely on Yubico technology to secure access to computers, online services and mobile apps. Our global customer base includes organizations of varying sizes, from large corporations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Hyatt, to companies like Dyson. We are a global company with a strong company culture and employees located in over 14 countries. Yubico’s headquarters are based in Stockholm, Sweden, Santa Clara, CA and Singapore. Aligned with our mission to make the internet more secure for everyone, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations helping at-risk individuals through our philanthropic initiative, Secure it Forward.
The Role:
We are looking for a Sr. SDET Automation Engineer who is passionate in driving test automation strategy and execution across software and hardware products to ensure quality. You are a QA expert, mentor, and developer who thrives and excels at delivering results at scale. Your primary role will be building testing tools, automation frameworks, and collaborating to identify areas suitable for automated testing. You will develop test framework features to enable developers and testers to author automated tests.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining robust, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks (e.g., for UI, API, and integration testing).
- Converting existing manual test cases into automated test suites using tools like Appium, Selenium, and Playwright.
- Performing manual, exploratory, and regression testing when appropriate.
- Developing and executing API and backend tests using tools like Postman or REST Assured, or pure code.
- Contributing to and improving our CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborating with software and hardware engineers, product managers, and other QA professionals to define test strategies and requirements.
- Writing detailed test cases and scenarios using data-driven or behavior-driven (BDD) approaches.
- Tracking, triaging, and reporting on bugs and test coverage metrics to improve overall system quality.
- Helping to integrate automation in hardware/software systems, including USB interfaces, stepper motors, and embedded components.
- Influence best practices for quality engineering, shift-left testing, and test automation adoption.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience with both automated and manual testing.
- 5+ years' experience of working in an SDET position.
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science٫ Engineering or related area.
- Significant experience working in/with software development teams and using software QA methodologies and tools.
- Significant experience automating test cases for a complex system.
- Experience with automated testing tools.
- Able to thoroughly define and concisely document bugs.
- Significant experience with both white box and black box testing.
- Experience testing a product encompassing both software and hardware components.
- Able to document clear٫ concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- The ability to work with and comprehend modern programming languages (e.g., C#, C++, and Python).
Bonus Skills:
- Led or contributed to building a new test framework.
- Optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with USB interfaces, stepper motors, and embedded software.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum development principles.
At Yubico, we offer:
Freedom and Flexibility: At Yubico, we want you to be your most productive selves whether you decide to work 100% from home or choose to work hybrid/onsite. The way we balance the fast-paced demands of a high-growth company and sustainability is making rest a priority.
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