Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Groups360•Brentwood, TN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Groups360 is seeking an innovative Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to redefine testing practices by directing AI agents for test generation, execution, and maintenance. This role involves designing agentic workflows, focusing human judgment on critical areas, triaging issues, and mentoring teammates. The ideal candidate will be curious about advancing AI-assisted development and shaping the future of AI-driven testing. This is a hands-on engineering and AI adoption role.

Requirements

Hands-on Playwright experience
Strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
TestRail (or similar test case management tool) experience
Jira experience for tracking work and defects
Working knowledge of Git
Comfort directing or prompting AI tools to do work you'd otherwise do by hand and knowing when to step in
Ability to explain a gnarly technical issue to a non-technical exec and to a fellow engineer, and know how to adjust for each
Track record of managing competing priorities
Comfort working in an evolving role with ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or AI-assisted test generation
GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD exposure
Ability to think through an API testing approach
Familiarity with Shape Up, Kanban, or other SDLC frameworks
Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
A QA-to-development career trajectory

Responsibilities

Direct AI agents to generate, execute, and maintain the majority of automated test coverage, using Playwright with JavaScript/Node.js as the underlying framework.
Design and refine prompting strategies and agentic workflows that reduce manual test-writing over time.
Apply human judgment where agents fall short: edge cases, flaky results, and coverage gaps that need a person to catch them.
Own test case documentation, execution, and reporting in TestRail.
Track work and defects in Jira.
Use Git and contribute to agent-driven test automation running in GitHub Actions as our CI/CD process matures.
Weigh in on API testing strategy, even in areas where day-to-day ownership sits with someone else.
Juggle a shifting mix of project work, defect response, and ongoing improvements without dropping the ball on any of it.
Give clear, proactive updates on testing status, risk, and blockers, to your team and to leadership.
Work with product, dev, and QA to nail down scope, acceptance criteria, and what "good enough" actually means.
Mentor junior developers through code review, test design, and automation practices as they grow into more dev-focused work including how to work effectively with AI agents themselves.
Actively pilot and give feedback on agentic AI tools as part of an early-stage rollout, helping shape how the team adopts them.
Help shape test strategy and automation architecture as agents take on more of the day-to-day testing load.