SDET Testing Engineer Lead (Talent Pool)

About the role

As a Senior SDET Engineer you will own the quality gate for a codebase where human engineers and AI coding agents collaborate. You will work within a Monks delivery team, partnering with clients, product leaders, and engineers to define acceptance criteria, validate functionality, and ensure production readiness.

Key responsibilities

• Own acceptance testing, functional validation, regression coverage, and release-quality decisions for both human‑ and AI‑generated code.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for web, API, and end‑to‑end workflows.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and agentic development workflows.
• Review and validate code quality, system behavior, and production readiness, identifying edge cases and failure modes.
• Investigate test and production failures, determine root causes, and drive issues to resolution.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in SDET, QA, or test automation with ownership of test strategy.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, and/or Python.
• Experience defining acceptance criteria and performing functional validation beyond unit‑level CI checks.
• Ability to review, challenge, and gate work produced by both engineers and AI coding agents.
• Comfort working in a fast‑paced, agile consulting environment.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Python
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Vitest
• Jest
• pytest