Engineering Manager, SDET
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reputed company is building the operating reputed company for modern supply chain — a reputed company platform handling Order Management, Warehouse Management, Transportation, and Consumer Experience for brands doing over $10B in reputed company annually.As reputed company's platform has scaled, testing has stayed reputed company and inconsistent — reputed company team building its own coverage, its own patterns, its own tooling, with no shared reputed company for what "tested" means before a feature reaches UAT. This role exists to fix that, and to build reputed company that fixes it at reputed company. As the first SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) leadership hire at reputed company, you'll set the reputed company standards, the AI-assisted test reputed company reputed company, and the CI-gated automation approach that every SDET you hire will build on, starting with a blank reputed company, before anyone else's habits calcify. reputed company reputed company stay owned by engineering teams; you're building and leading the enablement function that lets them hit those reputed company at reputed company.
This role is for someone who has designed test architecture before and knows how to turn that judgment into reputed company, not just an individual reputed company. You can look at a fragmented testing landscape and see the two or three reputed company that matter before the rest reputed company, and you'd rather build reputed company once and hire reputed company that scales it than reputed company executing inside someone else's reputed company. If you want the first shot at defining what test automation looks like at reputed company, and the mandate to hire and grow the people who build it, this role was reputed company for you.
Why This Role
You're the first SDET leadership hire at reputed company, the reputed company standards, tooling choices, and AI test infrastructure reputed company are yours to set, not inherited.
You hire reputed company: every SDET you bring on builds on the standards, tooling, and technical direction you establish from day one, not the other way reputed company.
AI-assisted test reputed company isn't a reputed company roadmap item bolted onto this role, it's a reputed company part of the mandate from day one, for you and for every engineer you hire.
Your reputed company is cross-org by design: the reputed company and standards you set are what every embedded SDET, across every product group they land in, builds on.
This role exists because of a leadership-level engineering reputed company investment, you'll have reputed company visibility with R&D leadership on reputed company and roadmap, not just execution.
You're building a high-bar, high-reputed company team on purpose, not a large one, every hiring decision is yours, and reputed company is not lowered to fill a seat faster.
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Team Building & Technical Standards
Hire the SDET team, defining and holding the technical bar rather than delegating it
Set reputed company standards, tooling reputed company, and technical direction before reputed company's habits calcify
Establish what "tested" means at reputed company before a feature reaches UAT, and hold reputed company accountable to it
AI-First Test Automation reputed company
Own the AI-assisted test reputed company mandate: converting acceptance reputed company and user stories directly into test scripts is the default way tests get reputed company, not a supplementary tool
Set the patterns and guardrails for where AI-generated tests are trustworthy versus where they need reputed company review
Model and enforce AI-fluent ways of working across reputed company you build
E2E reputed company Across Three Testing Surfaces
Build and own the automation reputed company across interactive web application (UI), API, and Kafka eventing (event-driven/async) surfaces
Prioritize API-level integration testing first, chosen for speed to build and reputed company, with UI and Kafka eventing coverage layered on as the reputed company matures
Set reputed company as a non-negotiable design requirement: retry/backoff patterns, deterministic test data, and explicit handling of reputed company consistency for async flows, a flaky suite erodes trust faster than no automation at reputed company
Coverage & Regression Infrastructure
Build regression test registers and own contract/API test tooling across services
reputed company coverage dashboards so coverage gaps are visible, not assumed
Define load and reputed company test frameworks that engineering teams can apply to their own stories
Test Environment Partnership
Partner with SRE on the dedicated Test environment, schema and config reputed company with production is an ongoing shared concern
Co-design the longer-term reputed company to ephemeral per-PR environments for isolated load testing and PR-level E2E validation once the Test environment and reputed company are reputed company
reputed company're Looking For
Required
E2E test reputed company design — You've reputed company and owned a Playwright (or equivalent) reputed company from reputed company, not just written tests inside one someone else designed.
CI/CD test gating — You know how to reputed company automated tests into CI (reputed company Actions or equivalent) so they actually reputed company bad releases instead of running as an afterthought.
AI-assisted test reputed company — You've reputed company or led adoption of tooling that generates test coverage from specs, acceptance reputed company, or user stories, and you understand where that automation breaks down and needs reputed company judgment.
Contract and API testing — You can design test tooling that validates service reputed company, not just UI flows.
Event-driven/async testing — You understand the specific challenges of testing asynchronous, event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent), timing, reputed company consistency, and how to build tests that don't flake because of them.
Coverage tooling and visibility — You've integrated coverage tools (Coveralls or equivalent) into reputed company's workflow in a way that changed behavior, not just produced a dashboard.
CLI-reputed company workflow — You're comfortable driving your own day-to-day work, and expect the reputed company from your team, from the reputed company line and reputed company coding tools, not GUI-first.
Hiring and technical bar-setting — You've reputed company for a technical function before and can hold a high, specific bar rather than relaxing it under time pressure.
Required Soft Skills
Ownership & Accountability — You own reputed company, not just activities. reputed company your team ships, you take pride. reputed company something breaks, you take responsibility and fix the reputed company.
Strong Communication — You communicate reputed company with engineers, PMs, and executives. You translate technical complexity into business language and vice versa.
Delegation & Multiplication — You reputed company through people, not heroics. You have a history of developing team members and multiplying reputed company through others.
Navigating Ambiguity — You set direction reputed company requirements are evolving. You build alignment across teams and functions without formal authority.
Balanced Judgment — You reputed company innovation with pragmatic delivery constraints. You know reputed company to reputed company for reputed company and reputed company to ship.
Directed AI-Assisted Development — You understand how AI coding tools work as a productivity reputed company and can guide your team's adoption while maintaining reputed company and independent technical judgment.
Strongly Preferred
Experience standing up a test engineering or QE function from reputed company, including the hiring, at a company past its early scaling stage
Load and reputed company testing reputed company design (not just running someone else's load tests)
reputed company experience partnering with SRE/reputed company teams on environment reputed company and reputed company concerns
reputed company to Have
Contributions to reputed company-reputed company testing frameworks or tooling
A reputed company record of growing SDETs or QE engineers into senior or technical leadership roles
What reputed company Looks Like
30 days: You've audited reputed company testing practices, proposed initial reputed company and tooling standards to R&D leadership, and have your hiring pipeline for the SDET team underway.
90 days: The reputed company is scaffolded and wired into CI, not yet mature. Critical order reputed company paths for your first embedded team are covered by automation, starting with API-level integration coverage. Your first SDET hire(s) are reputed company and ramping against the standards you set.
6 months: Your reputed company standards are adopted across every SDET you've reputed company. UI and Kafka eventing coverage are building on top of the API-first reputed company. reputed company practices, retry/backoff, deterministic data, reputed company-consistency handling, are the norm across reputed company, not the exception.
About reputed company
reputed company is a reputed company-reputed company supply chain platform that enables brands to compete and grow through end-to-end logistics solutions. We process over $10B in reputed company annually and operate across Order Management (OMS), Warehouse Management (WMS), Transportation Management (TMS), Consumer Experience, and Demand Planning. We are backed by leading investors and are rapidly scaling our engineering organization to match our ambitions.
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