SDET - (Agentic QA & Automation)

Search Atlas • Lisbon, ON

10d • Remote

About The Position

Search Atlas is evolving its QA paradigm from rigid scripts to autonomous systems capable of reasoning and self-healing, moving beyond suggestions to full execution with its core agent, Atlas Brain, which handles SEO and AI content generation autonomously. As an SDET, you will lead the quality evolution for Agentic AI, architecting the quality nervous system for a complex ecosystem. You will lead the technical direction of testing frameworks, ensuring AI agents remain reliable within a high-scale microservices architecture.

Requirements

• Architectural Judgment: A proven ability to critique and improve test automation architecture at scale.
• Tooling Expertise: Deep fluency in Playwright and emerging agentic frameworks like Stagehand.
• Diagnostic Rigor: A "forensic" approach to troubleshooting distributed systems and microservices.
• Strategic Communication: The ability to communicate technical risks and readiness to stakeholders clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Navigate Complex Architectures: Own quality for a realistic Search Atlas slice consisting of 6 Express microservices and a Next.js frontend.
• Architect AI Automation: Evaluate and refine our QABot AI test automation package, identifying and fixing deliberate architectural flaws.
• Master Modern Tooling: Drive the adoption and fluency of Stagehand and Playwright across the engineering organization.
• Apply Diagnostic Rigor: Identify and resolve complex bugs across three difficulty tiers (Easy, Medium, and Hard) using distributed traces and CI reports.
• Stakeholder Communication: Translate technical diagnostic findings and architectural judgments into Executive Briefings and Agent Evaluation reports.
• Optimize Operations: Analyze pre-generated ops artifacts, including trend analysis and distributed telemetry, to maintain high system reliability.

Benefits

• Compensation: $4,000 – $5,500 USD per month (depending on location and experience).
• Paid Time Off: 15 Days PTO + Christmas Day + New Year’s Day.
• Culture: Collaborative, excellence-driven, and innovative environment with a "Student Mentality" toward learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees