Sr. SDET Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a senior‑level automation engineer who will help raise the bar on release quality, environment reliability, and change safety across Cohere’s platform. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and SRE to build scalable automation, guardrails, and validation systems that reduce production risk while increasing delivery velocity.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve end‑to‑end test automation strategy across UI, API, configuration changes, and critical workflows.
• Design and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for multi‑tenant, payer‑specific workflows.
• Build automated validation for deployment guardrails, release readiness, and production change safety.
• Partner with Platform/DevOps to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Drive test reliability, flake reduction, and actionable failure signals.

Required profile

• 6+ years of experience in QA automation, SDET, or test engineering supporting production systems.
• Strong hands‑on experience building automation frameworks for UI and API testing from the ground up.
• Proven ability to partner with platform/infra teams on release pipelines and deployment safety.

Required skills

• Playwright, Cypress, or PyTest (TypeScript)
• REST API testing frameworks
• AWS cloud services
• Microservices and event‑driven architectures
• Feature‑flag and configuration‑driven testing
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
• Performance testing tools such as k6