Lead SDET (Search and Match)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Dec 11, 2025. BOLD scores B on the Alion truth index.
BOLD is seeking a Technical Lead Specialist who can understand functional, technical & architectural views and has the ability to translate them into a low-level technical design for the developers. The successful candidate will be expected to work with the Engineering Manager and to interact with the technical architect of the program to achieve these goals. In addition, your role will be to mentor developers and contribute towards best practices and standards.
Our SDETs work with Product Managers and Dev Teams to understand features and technical implementation and ensure our sites, products, and platforms perform to industry-beating quality.
ABOUT THIS TEAM
BOLD Platform services team design, creates, manage and maintains the highly scalable and distributed services for the wider use of web and mobile product applications/portals/websites. The current list of services is based on Microservices architecture whose domain ranges from visitor tracking, User profiles, authentication, content and payments.
Platform team uses state of the art modern technologies like .Net framework, Python, Java, SQL Server, My SQL, Graph DB, SOLR, and a lot of other tools & technologies serving millions of users with hundreds of million transactions everyday through a scalable and fault tolerant architecture.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Excellent Object-Oriented coding practices, Refactoring, Clean Code, merging, etc.
- Follow and recommend design principles and best practices for QA automation.
- Able to develop and maintain test automation framework as per project requirements.
- Understand automation test plans, product architecture, and domain in detail.
- Solution-providing approach for technical queries and help/mentor test automation team.
- Should be able to develop components that are extensible to test tools.
- Hands-on experience in PoC solutions for automation and can demonstrate.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently with multiple tasks.
- Test cutting-edge applications and products at the user level and code level
- Be able to understand the software internals, debug issues, and write automated tests with scripting and automation tools
- Assist in implementing and maintaining a Continuous Integration Solution
- Contribute and/or own the development of high-quality test automation
- Create and enhance backend automation tests and test tools
- Ability to extend API automation framework to the next level
- Work efficiently in a multi-project agile environment
- Have to involve in performance, security, and scalability testing efforts
- Write specialized testing tools for use in testing our software platform
- Participate in test design and code reviews
- Excellent debugging skills, measures, and analyses code for quality.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- At least 2 years of experience with search platforms such as Solrand modern search architectures.
- Working knowledge of vector databases and semantic searchsolutions(e.g., Azure AI Search, Pinecone, or equivalent tools).
- Strong understanding ofLarge Language Models (LLMs)and their application in search, relevance, and matching use cases.
- Familiarity with ranking and re-ranking conceptsand algorithms, and how they impactsearch quality and relevance
- Have 5-7 years of experience in API Test Automation using Karate, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Java, BDD, or any other tool.
- Strong knowledge of scripting languages like Core Java, C#, Python, etc.
- Experience with any CI/CD Tools like Jenkins.
- Experience with source code controls like SVN, GIT, or CVS.
- Exposure to Test and Defect Management Tools like JIRA, Trail, Zephyr, etc.
- Experience with one or more database technology (SQL, NoSQL, Mongo, Solr)
EXPERIENCE:
- Lead SDET (Search and Match)- 7 years+
About Bold
We Transform Work Lives
As an established global organization, BOLD helps people find jobs. Our story is one of growth, success, and professional fulfillment. We create digital products that have empowered millions of people in 180 countries to build stronger resumes, cover letters, and CVs. The result of our work helps people interview confidently, finding the right job in less time. Our employees are experts, learners, contributors, and creatives.
We Celebrate And Promote Diversity And Inclusion
We value our position as an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on qualifications, merit, and our business needs. We don't discriminate regarding race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law.
Under San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position.