Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - Immigration AI
Quick Summary
This position is based out of our San Francisco, Chicago, Salt Lake City or New York offices. Candidates residing in or near these metro areas are expected to wo
About the Role
~4 min readFilevine's Immigration AI team owns the platform immigration practices use to prepare and manage their clients' cases. The team is expanding the product to deliver the capabilities our customers are asking for, and is building out both the engineering foundation and the feature set to get there.
We are looking for a senior-level SDET to own quality across this work. The ideal engineer is equally at home driving rigorous backend and API testing, validating customer-facing applications, and inventing new approaches to test systems that resist conventional, UI-driven automation. This is a backend-leaning, tooling-heavy role for an engineer who wants to solve hard testing problems and raise the quality bar for the entire team, not simply execute existing test plans.
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Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgment by being responsible for
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Writing and identifying test cases
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Setting up of test environments
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Designing test plans
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Developing test cases/scenarios based on usage cases
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Executing manual and automated tests
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Assisting in the design and implementation of automated test frameworks
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Performing expert code reviews
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Identifying opportunities for automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, UI, etc)
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Work within the assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers.
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Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences on usability and serviceability and suggested changes
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Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline
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Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing
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8+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineer
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Expert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java
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Complete understanding of the application development life cycle
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Expert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLC
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Expert experience testing REST web services
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Expert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testing
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Ability to design and build custom test tooling and harnesses for systems that are difficult to exercise through conventional automation, including asynchronous and event-driven services
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Practical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challenges
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Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques
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Expert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mocking
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Expert understanding of source control systems and CI/CD Pipelines
- B.S. or M.S in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 4, 2026
- First seen
- September 4, 2026
- Last seen
- September 4, 2026
Posting Health
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- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 76%
- Scored at
- September 4, 2026
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Filevine is a cloud-based legal technology company providing case management, document management, and automation tools for law firms and legal departments. [1, 4, 30] It aims to simplify and elevate complex legal work. [5, 19]
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