Software Developer In Test

Summary

Join Ashby as their first dedicated automation SDET to build and improve their QA infrastructure. You will be responsible for writing and maintaining end-to-end tests, contributing to the test infrastructure, and working closely with engineers. This is a hands-on, deeply technical role focused on building systems that provide fast, helpful feedback. You will write code daily, building test frameworks, improving test speed, and debugging flaky tests. The ideal candidate has experience building test automation frameworks from scratch and thinks like a user, understanding edge cases and how to translate them into meaningful test coverage. You will be working in a collaborative environment where everyone owns quality, and your role is to make it easier for the whole team to do that well.

Requirements

• You’ve written and maintained test automation frameworks from scratch
• You know what makes a test helpful, what makes it flaky, and what makes it someone else’s problem
• You think like a user
• You know how to spot edge cases, understand how someone might use a feature, and turn that into meaningful test coverage
• You enjoy working on test infrastructure that supports engineers and removes friction from their workflow
• You get excited about shipping less brittle tests, faster
• You don’t treat test automation like a checklist
• You care if it’s usable
• You don’t need to be told what “done” looks like
• You can scope, build, test, and maintain your own tools and systems

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain end-to-end tests
• Contribute to our test infrastructure
• Work closely with engineers to build fast, confident feedback loops, especially in areas where the product is powerful and evolving quickly
• Help out with manual testing when things get busy
• Build a test framework
• Extend a test setup to make it 10x faster
• Debug flaky tests that slow the team down
• Bring product intuition into how you build test systems, understanding what users rely on, where edge cases live, and how to steer engineers to the right tests, not just more of them
• Focus on building systems that unlock leverage but also ensure we’re covering what matters

Preferred Qualifications

• You haven’t written code in a while, or don’t enjoy doing it daily
• You think of QA as gatekeeping, not enabling
• You prefer validating requirements over building and improving systems
• You’re happiest when someone hands you a test plan and a set of instructions
• You’re used to working on large QA teams with lots of ceremony and fixed roles

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us