{"id":4188934,"url":"https://alion.io/job/8am-sdet-software-development-engineer-in-test-manager","title":"SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) Manager","company":{"id":668928,"name":"8am","domain":"8am.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/8am-4","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":9,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":51,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Prague, Czech Republic","Czech Republic"],"countries":["CZ"],"hiring_countries":["CZ"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":220000,"currency":"CZK","period":"month","gross":null,"usd_annual":120060},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CircleCI","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Pytest","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby on Rails","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"TestRail","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T18:07:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T18:58:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! \nAbout the role:\n8am is hiring an SDET Manager to lead our Software Development Engineers in Test. Our SDETs are software engineers first, and their product is the automation that validates our products: the framework, the test suites, and the CI/CD quality gates that decide what ships. You'll run the team the way a strong engineering manager runs any product development team, with a backlog, a technical roadmap, code review, design standards, and a solid deployment practice.\nYou'll report to the Director of Quality Engineering (USA) and work directly with our US-based and Czechia-based QE Managers as peers, settling QE and SDET priorities between you. Their Quality Engineers own test strategy, test case design, and customer advocacy in their teams. You'll also partner with our SDET Architect, who reports to the Director of Quality Engineering, on automation approach. Your team includes full-time Core and embedded SDETs across Czechia and the US, plus contract SDETs as the work requires, covering our payments and practice management products.\nAutomation is software and carries the full cost of software, so you'll aim the team's time at the customer flows Product ranks most critical and where defects escape to customers most often.\nThis role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.\nAbout us:\n8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.\nMore than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.\nWhat you'll do:\nLead and grow full-time Core and embedded SDETs: hiring, 1:1s, performance management, technical mentorship, and career development.\nManage contract SDETs as the work requires, directing their work and holding their code to the same standards as the full-time team.\nOwn automation strategy and engineering standards across Quality Engineering, including automation QEs write when they script the framework.\nPartner with our SDET Architect on the design and implementation of both traditional algorithmic automation and AI-based automation.\nOwn the CI/CD quality gate roadmap. Your Core and embedded SDETs implement and maintain the pipeline gates that keep quality in step as engineering speeds up delivery with AI, extending them to every product.\nLead the migration of tests from Metis, our legacy Ruby on Rails runner, into Themis.\nPartner with the Engineering Managers whose squads host your embedded SDETs: align on priorities and expectations, gather feedback on how your SDETs and automation serve their teams, and turn it into concrete improvements.\nRun the SDET backlog: take in automation requests, prioritize them by risk and value, and decide with the QE Managers which squads get an embedded SDET.\nStay hands-on. Contribute to framework design and code, review pull requests, and set the bar for test code, test data management, and ephemeral test environments.\nDecide with the QE Managers where each test and suite runs in the pipeline: check-in, nightly, full regression, or post-deployment.\nKeep the quality gates fast and trustworthy: flaky-test tracking and quarantine, and root cause analysis that separates product defects from automation failures.\nPartner with our nonfunctional QE specialists in Security, Data, and Performance to strengthen both nonfunctional and functional automated regression coverage.\nCurate AI-generated automation. Our agentic tooling writes and runs throwaway tests against tickets, and your team promotes the ones worth keeping into gated regression suites.\nFeed automation results into our quality KPIs, including Defect Leakage Rate, and demo new capabilities.\nHelp maintain 8am's QE Practice Hub, our internal home for Quality Engineering standards and guides, keeping SDET standards and framework guides current.\nWork with Engineering and DevOps to make every product deployable and testable by automation.\nAbout you:\n8+ years in software engineering or test automation, with a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n3+ years leading developers or SDETs in an Agile environment, running the team as a development team: backlog, code review, coding standards, and a technical roadmap.\nStrong Python 3. You'll complete a coding exercise during the interview process.\nFramework design and ownership, preferably PyTest, plus UI automation in Playwright and automation of back-end APIs across monolithic and microservice architectures in the cloud.\nCI/CD and Git experience, building automated suites into GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar pipelines as quality gates.\nSound judgment on test types and on which tests make good automation candidates.\nSQL against complex schemas, including building the test data automated tests need, and experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems.\nQase, TestRail, or similar test management tools, and their APIs for reporting results.\nFamiliarity with eval testing: building evaluation sets and scoring AI output against them.\nInterest and experience in AI-assisted development, with the judgment to review AI output.\nClear written English for working across a 7 to 8 hour offset with US teams.\n\nAdditional Information\nThe monthly gross salary range for this position is CZK 150,000 to CZK 220,000. 8am is committed to fair, objective, and non-discriminatory compensation, and actual pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.\nWhy join our new 8am Czech Republic hub?\nFounding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Czech Republic R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles with the exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with your team in our upcoming Brno office.\n Drive our \"AI-First\" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale \"Unified AI Platform\". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it.\nBuild the Next Generation of Our Platform: Help shape the systems powering products used by more than 250,000 professionals. You’ll work on complex platform capabilities across payments, workflow automation, and AI-powered features as we expand into new professional service markets.\nBenefits and Perks\nWe offer a competitive, locally relevant benefits package designed to support your life in the Czech Republic while giving you access to global opportunities:\nPerformance bonus opportunities and employee referral rewards\n Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar\nPaid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system\nMaternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am\nFull statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage\nGrow Your Career\nAccess to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development\nClear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement\nWhat Makes 8am Different:\nInternational company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.\nOpportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits)\nEngaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives\nOffice spaces in Brno and Prague with opportunities to work in-person and enjoy a flexible hybrid setup\nDiversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:\nAt 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. \nSecurity advisory:\nOur hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology. As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices. We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process. All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person. All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up. \nApplicant Data Privacy Notice:\nYour personal data will be collected and retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority. 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