Senior Software Engineer in Test

PayPal • San Jose, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, you’ll design and execute comprehensive manual and exploratory tests to ensure seamless, high-quality releases. You’ll collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to validate new features, assess end-to-end experiences, and ensure a consistent, high-trust user journey. In this role, you’ll own the testing lifecycle — defining test strategies, conducting regression and feature validation, managing release readiness, and driving continuous quality improvements. You’ll also identify opportunities to build or extend automation frameworks and tools that reduce manual effort, improve coverage, and enhance testing efficiency.

Requirements

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience performing both manual and automated testing for large-scale web applications, ensuring quality across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Strong expertise in frontend and backend validation, including UI flows, APIs, and service-level integrations.
• Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress, with a deep understanding of test design and best practices for scalable web testing.
• Ability to design and build test automation frameworks from scratch, defining architecture, structure, and reusable components that accelerate team-wide adoption.
• Experience defining test strategies, coverage plans, and quality gates for complex features and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) to enable automated regression and continuous validation.
• Skilled in debugging and root-cause analysis, using browser developer tools, network inspection, and logs to troubleshoot issues across the full stack.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence quality practices across engineering teams and advocate for release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Benefits

• This role is also eligible for a range of benefits which may include, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, parental and family leave, 401(k) savings plan, paid time off, and other benefits.
• At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life.
• We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
• We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level