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Sr. SDET

Home Office, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Aug 2025

💰 $163,160/yr($108,773/yr – $163,160/yr)

About the role

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”

Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 19.5M users.

As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.

The Senior SDET role is responsible for working as an individual contributor and quality engineering leader within a software development scrum team. In this role, the Senior SDET will be guiding and collaborating with a select group of SDETs and Test Engineers. This role will encompass the entire spectrum of test automation and white-box testing.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

Build and maintain automated test suites for the full tech stack including UI, API, Microservices, and Database. Optimize and stabilize the automated test suites
Contribute to building test automation framework and enhancement. Leverage knowledge of Software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and apply to test suite development and maintenance
Contribute to test tooling evaluation to continuously evolve the tooling strategy to be industry leading technologies. Contribute to the improvement of Quality Engineering processes and best practices, and actively participate in code reviews and quality discussions.
Perform functional/ regression tests, analyze automated test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure. Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to support continuous testing and deployment.
Participate in all the Agile ceremonies (sprint grooming, planning, demos). Collaborate with the agile squad and cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and application architecture.
Design and document comprehensive test cases, establish requirements traceability Analyze test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure. Call out areas of risk. Analyze application architecture to develop effective and impactful tests at the right layer of the application under test.
Understand the release cycle , deployment process well and ensure quality gates are adhered at each phase. Leverage existing CI/CD tools and framework to integrate the automated tests suites into the deployment pipelines.
Provides guidance to SDETs and Associates. Serves as functional and quality SME on their team. Serves as a functional area SME for Engineering.
Ability to work any feature ticket without assistance, regardless of complexity. Could work as the sole SDET on a scrum team if needed. Works with Staff & Principal SDETs regarding design & frameworks topics.
Lead the maintenance of the test environments, test data creations, ensuring they are consistent with staging/production configurations.