Software Engineer in Test SDET

Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance & Strategy: Design, build, execute, and maintain automated test suites and manual functional test cases for SaaS services hosted on AWS, ensuring product releases meet quality, performance, and five 9’s reliability standards.
• Agile & CI/CD Environment: Work within a modern agile software engineering environment, integrating automated test packs into source code control, dev/stage/prod release pipelines, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) workflows.
• Workflow Management: Manage day-to-day testing tasks, bug tracking, and test execution reporting using GitHub, Jira, and internal Talkdesk systems.
• End-to-End Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of test coverage for microservices, validate safe deployment practices, and operate with a DevOps/Quality Engineering mindset.
• Test Architecture & Non-Functional Testing: Validate microservices against Security, Reliability, Performance, and Telemetry standards, actively flagging and mitigating technical debt in test coverage.
• Automated & Functional Test Execution: Implement and maintain automated unit, REST API, UI, and end-to-end functional tests running in CI/CD pipelines.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Work closely with Product Management, Software Engineers, SRE, and Platform teams to ensure requirement traceability and test coverage alignment from initial design to release.
• Agile Participation: Actively participate in backlog grooming, user story sizing, design reviews, and code/test reviews.
• Reliability & On-Call Support: Validate service reliability and participate in test support for on-call release windows or production incident triage. Apply learnings from Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) to build preventative test cases.
• Continuous Improvement: Research and adopt emerging QA automation tools, test frameworks, and testing methodologies to improve overall test efficiency.
• Compliance & Standards: Ensure all quality assurance workflows comply with industry regulations and company security standards.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: 2–4 years of experience in QA engineering, test automation, and functional testing for highly-available, reliable SaaS applications based on a microservices architecture.
• Automation & Core Tech Stack: Hands-on expertise in test automation framework creation and execution using Java, Python, or JavaScript (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured, or PyTest).
• API & Microservices Testing: Deep expertise in REST API testing (using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or similar) and microservices validation hosted on AWS.
• Domain Knowledge (Desirable): Experience or familiarity with cloud telephony, UCaaS, CCaaS, SIP, SBC, or CPaaS provider integrations.
• Database & Messaging Testing: Experience validating data persistence across databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) and message queues / streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink).
• Containers & CI/CD Integration: Hands-on experience with Docker/Kubernetes containerized environments and integrating test execution into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Test Design Practices: Proficient in designing robust test plans, regression suites, edge-case scenarios, and automated unit/API test coverage.
• Code & Automation Quality: Passion for writing clean, standards-compliant, maintainable test scripts and frameworks.
• Collaboration & Communication: Experience working effectively within geographically distributed cross-functional teams with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Talkdesk is pioneering a new era of Customer Experience Automation (CXA), redefining how the world’s most admired brands interact with their customers through AI. Our global team of courageous innovators is customer-obsessed, building AI-first solutions that put empathy, trust, and transparency at the center of every interaction. We foster an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive our success and every voice belongs. Combining the stability of a global leader with the agility of a disruptor, Talkdeskers are empowered with the autonomy to drive meaningful impact, while giving back to the communities and environment around us.

Talkdesk has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and in the G2 Overall Grid® Reports for AI Agents and Contact Center. With seven consecutive years on the Forbes Cloud 100 and multiple AI Breakthrough awards, there has never been a more exciting time to join us as we shape the future of customer experience automation!

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

Primarily office-environment work, extended periods of sitting or standing, computer-based work. Limited lifting, and equipment usage limited to computer-related equipment (keyboards, mouse, etc.)

The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdeskers to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution, and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity, diversity, and genuine acceptance. To that end, we will hire, promote, work along, cheer for, bond with, and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity, indigenous heritage, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.