# Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Role Overview At Kuda, we are dedicated to delivering a seamless, reliable, and highly secure digital financial experience for our customers. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be the ultimate guardian of our platform’s quality and reliability. You won’t just be writing scripts; you will be writing robust code to build the automated infrastructure that ensures our customers' money and data are always safe and accessible. You will sit at the critical intersection of software engineering and quality assurance. Your mission is to architect comprehensive test automation frameworks, champion a "shift-left" testing culture, and integrate quality gates seamlessly into our CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities Test Architecture & Frameworks: Design, build, and scale robust, maintainable test automation frameworks from the ground up for our backend microservices (APIs), web platforms, and mobile applications (iOS and Android). Comprehensive Automation: Drive functional, integration, and end-to-end automation testing. Write clean, high-quality code (e.g., in Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript) to automate complex financial user journeys. Pipeline Integ

- **Id**: 3940048
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kuda-software-development-engineer-in-test-sdet-3>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-13T11:45:57Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-13T11:45:57Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 26
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4486
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 62343
- **Name**: Kuda
- **Domain**: kuda.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kuda>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.4
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Apache HTTP Server** — Optional: no
- **Appium** — Optional: no
- **Axios** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cypress** — Optional: no
- **Groovy** — Optional: no
- **HikariCP** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Jest** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **Maven** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **OkHttp** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **Selenium** — Optional: no
- **Shift-Left Security** — Optional: no
- **TestNG** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Kotlin** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 26

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T12:23:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 53
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.697
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 26
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: seen:26, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T14:41:06Z

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