Software Development Engineer in Test

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. - Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. - Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. - Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. - Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. What you will be doing? This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded. At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Software Engineer. - Core Knowledge & Skills: Specializes in at least one core language or platform, expands tooling and languages as needed, applies design patterns, basic automation and testing, cloud fundamentals, DevOps basics, and database design concepts. - Work & Complexity: Handles issues of moderate scope, builds and integrates external dependencies, reviews code, and contributes independently to project milestones. - Quality & Independence: Estimates work, meets deadlines with few errors, improves monitoring and testing, and exercises judgment within defined processes. - Teamwork & Communication: Actively shares information, keeps stakeholders informed, and develops productive relationships across teams. - Consulting & Engagement: Communicates appropriately with clients, learns firm services to spot opportunities, and offers technical recommendations with guidance. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Software Development Engineer in Test. Project Summary We are looking for an SDET who combines software engineering skills with a passion for quality. Working in a rapid iterative agile environment you will conduct testing (manual and automated), develop automats tests which include writing code and building high-quality test scripts which will be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline. You will work closely with developers, focus on testing efficiencies and ensuring that software developed will address the organization’s business need or problem as defined in user stories and in adherence to the defined acceptance criteria. Key Responsibilities - Work as an SDET within an agile product team, partnering closely with software engineers, product owners, and architects to ensure quality is built into the solution from design through release. - Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and integration layers using clean maintainable automation code. - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable continuous testing and fast feedback. - Contribute to test strategy and test design, including defining test scenarios, edge cases, and acceptance criteria (Gherkin) aligned to user stories. - Perform exploratory and targeted manual testing where appropriate to uncover high‑risk or complex defects that automation alone may not cover. - Collaborate in requirements review, design discussions, and code reviews to improve testability, reliability, and overall software quality. - Maintain and enhance automation frameworks, test data, and test environments as the product evolves. - Execute and support functional, integration, regression, and API testing, and support performance, reliability, and security testing efforts as needed. - Analyse test results, track defects, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues to resolution. - Communicate test status, quality metrics, and risks clearly and transparently to the broader product team. - Act as a quality champion, promoting best practices in testing, automation, and engineering excellence. Required For This Opportunity - Strong programming skills with C# (.NET / .NET Core) OR Python; ability to write production‑quality automation code. - Hands‑on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks. - Experience with modern automation tools such as: Playwright or Cypress for UI automation (either is acceptable) AND Postman and/or Swagger for REST API testing - Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, and integrated systems. - Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts, with hands‑on experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML preferred). - Experience using Azure DevOps for: User stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria, Test case management and defect tracking - Comfortable working across a modern tech stack: React, .NET, PostgreSQL/SQL Server - Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing. - Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues and propose practical solutions. - Experience in working with developers to ensure that systems are designed with testability, reliability, performance, and security in mind. - Exposure to containerized or cloud‑hosted environments (Azure) - Docker, Kubernetes - Proven ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills to gather appropriate data to diagnose the cause of a problem or to develop a solution. - (Nice to have) Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or Kanban delivery models in fast‑changing product environments. - (Nice to have) Experience with performance, load, or security testing tools. - (Nice to have) Prior experience influencing test strategy for large or complex enterprise systems. At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $0-$0 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process. Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.