# SDET

The Opportunity We are seeking a hands-on SDET to drive the evolution of quality engineering across our platform. In this role, you will define and scale our automation strategy, partnering with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to build fast, reliable, and CI/CD-native testing solutions with a strong focus on Playwright and API-first automation. You will act as a technical leader across multiple teams, creating reusable frameworks and shared tooling, modernizing legacy approaches, and mentoring engineers to increase automation adoption and release confidence. You will use metrics, observability, and AI-accelerated solutions to identify inefficiencies, reduce regression time, and enable faster, higher-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is a strong coder and automation architect who thrives on solving systemic quality challenges and elevating how teams build, test, and ship software. Success in this role is measured by improved automation efficiency, faster pipeline feedback, and the ability for teams to independently deliver high-quality releases. Mission of the Role This role operates as a horizontal quality leader across multiple product and platform teams, driving test aut

- **Id**: 704022
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kwi-sdet>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Melville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T03:29:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T09:57:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 58
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3348
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: POS Systems, Retail & Shop Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 679000
- **Name**: KWI
- **Domain**: kwi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kwi-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 165000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 165000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 58

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T03:29:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.438
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 58
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 165000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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