SDET

Description:

Job Title: SDET

Location: Hartford, CT or Wellesley MA - Onsite

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest

growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative

team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global

clients.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Mid to Senior SDET to own and evolve our test infrastructure, enabling our engineering team to ship quality features at velocity. You will design test harnesses, establish testing best practices, and ensure our platform—including AI Agent capabilities—is thoroughly validated across API, backend, and full-stack scenarios.

This is not a QA role. You are an engineer with a testing focus, embedded with developers, contributing to sprint work, test strategy, and platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

Understand how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and develop QA approaches and tools that fit the overall strategy

Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams to define test strategy, coverage goals, and acceptance criteria

Develop test strategies and create appropriate test harnesses for Conversational AI systems across Voice and Chat channels

Identify testing gaps and recommend solutions

Design, build, and maintain reusable test harnesses and frameworks that eliminate decision paralysis for engineers

Provide clear patterns for: test framework selection, test data setup, and test implementation

Create comprehensive examples and documentation so developers can write tests without reinventing solutions

Provide test infrastructure to enable engineering teams to test and own quality of the services

Support testing across Java/Node.js backends, APIs, and Conversational AI platforms

Develop specialized test strategies for conversational AI workflows and agent interactions

Build test harnesses for API-level, backend service, and end-to-end scenarios

Validate complex multi-turn conversations, intent recognition, and orchestration logic

Develop and automate Voice and Chat test plans

Be a stakeholder of the release to ensure defects are fixed per SLA and end customer experience is protected and improved

Monitor and report on test execution and quality metrics

Validate that platform changes maintain or improve customer experience

Educate and train engineers on test harnesses, frameworks, and best practices

Mentor team members on test-driven development and automation patterns

Make testing accessible—remove friction from the testing process

When harness work is complete, contribute to automated test implementation and general development items

Pair with developers on complex testing scenarios

Help close any testing gaps across the team

Required Qualifications:

Candidate must be located within commuting distance of either Hartford, CT or Wellesley MA or be willing to relocate to the area.

8+ years total software engineering experience with 5+ years focused on test automation/SDET work

A deep understanding of automation testing and ability to lead engineers in writing automation scripts/programs that aid automated testing

Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: **Java, Node.js with object-oriented design experience

API testing expertise: REST, request/response validation, mocking, contract testing.

Test framework experience: JUnit, Jest, or equivalent; experience building custom frameworks a plus

Tools and Test Platforms - SOAPUI, Postman, Bruno, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, Hammer and Cyara.

Voice and Chat test automation expertise and familiarity with test methodologies for conversational systems.

CI/CD pipeline knowledge: GitHub Actions, comfortable with automation in pipelines

Test data management: Experience designing and maintaining test data strategies

Full-stack testing: Comfortable testing across APIs, backends, and frontend layers

Strong communication: Ability to document patterns, mentor others, and articulate testing strategy

Familiarity with software technologies, methodologies, and applied software engineering practices such as Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and cloud software development

Experience with testing LLM/AI responses, using such approaches as LLM-as-a-judge, etc

On-site availability (required in or)

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep hands-on technical expertise in automation, developing test frameworks, tools, and APIs

Experience with conversational AI platforms

Experience with contract testing or API mocking tools

Knowledge of performance/load testing frameworks

Understanding or experience testing AI agents

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

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