Software Development Engineer III

What You'll Be Doing - Understand product requirements, architecture, and customer workflows and design effective validation strategies. - Build and scale API/UI automation frameworks and reusable engineering guardrails across DRE. - Develop automated coverage for new product features, customer workflows, regressions, and production issues. - Perform release validation and continuously reduce the manual effort required for releases. - Move validation earlier in the SDLC by integrating automated checks into development, PR, and CI/CD workflows. - Build developer tooling that provides fast and actionable feedback to engineering teams. - Expand automation coverage across Windows, Linux, Airwave, and other areas with limited current coverage. - Convert customer and requirement scenarios into reusable automated validation contracts. - Investigate failures across UI, APIs, backend services, logs, databases, containers, devices, and environments. - Debug backend/cloud issues and contribute code fixes when required. - Use AI coding tools and agents to accelerate development, automation, test generation, debugging, failure analysis, and maintenance. - Improve the reliability, maintainability, and execution speed of existing automation. - Contribute to Hard Commits, P3s, PFRs, backend/cloud engineering, and other DRE priorities as required. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Release teams to improve release confidence and developer velocity. Skills & Abilities (Required) 3–5 years of relevant software testing/automation engineering experience. - Strong software testing fundamentals and ability to design comprehensive validation strategies. - Strong programming fundamentals in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or equivalent. - Hands-on API testing and API automation experience. - Hands-on UI automation experience using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent. - Experience designing/building reusable automation frameworks or test infrastructure. - Good understanding of backend systems, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, retries, queues, and failure handling. - Ability to read, debug, modify, and test existing backend code. - Strong debugging/RCA skills across application, API, backend, logs, database, automation, and environment layers. - Experience integrating automated validation into PR and CI/CD workflows. - Git/GitHub and modern software-development workflow experience. - Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted development tools as part of day-to-day engineering. - Strong ownership, problem-solving, and communication skills. Bonus Points if You Have - Hands-on backend/cloud development experience. - Docker/Kubernetes experience. - SQL/database debugging. - Windows/Linux automation. - Device-management or enterprise SaaS experience. - Performance, reliability, scalability, or resilience testing. - Internal developer-tooling experience. -…