Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: 100% remote within Canada; candidates must currently reside in Canada and be legally authorized to work there.

Salary: CAD 93,068–102,864 per year

Company

A product company building a home-equity platform that helps homeowners access their wealth and achieve greater financial flexibility.

What you will do

• Write, maintain, and extend automated UI, API, and end-to-end tests using the existing testing framework.
• Create and execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and risk-based test strategies for product features.
• Partner with Software Engineering and Product teams to identify quality risks, edge cases, and testability requirements early.
• Debug and improve test execution in GitHub Actions, investigate pipeline failures, and reduce test runtime.
• Build reusable page objects, fixtures, and test helpers while contributing to release testing and regression cycles.
• Use AI-assisted tools for test cases, test data, and maintenance, reviewing and hardening generated output before use.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software quality engineering with hands-on test automation experience.
• Strong working proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with the ability to work in an unfamiliar codebase.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, or transferable experience with Cypress or Selenium, across UI and API testing.
• Experience testing APIs and backend services, plus a solid understanding of functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD, including debugging tests that fail in continuous integration.
• Must currently reside in Canada and be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Nice to have

• Experience with API, integration, component, or contract testing.
• Experience testing AI-enabled features or evaluating LLM output quality.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as logs, traces, and dashboards.
• Contributions to shared testing tools, internal documentation, or team testing practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work from anywhere in Canada.
• Virtual collaboration and team gatherings support connection across the distributed workforce.
• People-first culture focused on building accessible homeownership products.
• Opportunity to work with modern testing practices, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.