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Progyny, Inc.Director, SDET
Director SDET ensuring quality, reliability, and scalability in Progyny’s technology platform. Driving automation and shaping engineering culture while supporting family building journeys.
About the role
- Own the quality strategy for key initiatives across frontend, backend, and data pipelines; define test approaches, quality gates, and release criteria for distributed, event-driven systems.
- Design and build robust automation (TypeScript and C#) for UI (Playwright), API/contract (REST/GraphQL, Pact), and event streams (Kafka-centric validation and consumer tests).
- Implement CI/CD quality gates: parallelized test suites, flaky-test detection, test impact analysis, and fast feedback loops using pipelines and containerized runners.
- Expand non-functional coverage: performance/load (k6/JMeter/Gatling), resiliency/chaos scenarios, reliability SLOs, accessibility (WCAG), and basic security/OWASP checks.
- Build test data and environments: deterministic data sets, mocks and service virtualization (e.g., WireMock), and cloud-native ephemeral environments (AWS, IaC) to increase speed and repeatability.
- Partner across disciplines to design for testability, drive defect prevention, and deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Integrate and validate AI-driven services: establish evaluation datasets, bias/guardrail checks, and offline/online metrics to ensure safe and consistent behavior.
- Level up the team: mentor engineers on testing best practices, code reviews, debugging, and observability-driven testing.
- Operational excellence: instrument tests and systems for telemetry; analyze failures, reduce flakiness, and continuously optimize execution time and coverage.
- Document quality architecture with diagrams, flows, and clear test plans (Miro or similar) to align teams on approach and outcomes.
- Collaborate with Principal/Distinguished Engineers to design highly testable, resilient solutions and evolve our quality platform.
- Contribute to mobile testing where applicable (device farms, cross-platform validation).
- Pitch in as needed to support team and organizational goals.
Requirements
- Proven experience: 7+ years in software quality/test engineering (or equivalent software engineering with testing focus) delivering automation and quality outcomes for production systems at scale.
- Leadership background: 2+ years leading test strategy or quality initiatives, mentoring peers, and establishing engineering standards.
- Automation expertise: Advanced skills in at least one OOP language and modern JavaScript/TypeScript; hands-on with Playwright or Cypress (UI), REST/GraphQL testing (Postman/Newman, REST Assured, Pact), and test design patterns.
- Event-driven & backend testing: Experience validating service-oriented and event-based architectures (e.g., Kafka), including consumer-driven contracts, idempotency, ordering, and replay scenarios; API and data-pipeline validation.
- Cloud proficiency: Practical experience with AWS services, containers (Docker), CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins/CircleCI), and familiarity with IaC concepts (Terraform/CloudFormation) for ephemeral test environments.
- Performance & reliability: Comfort with performance profiling, load testing, resiliency/chaos techniques, and observability (logs, metrics, traces) to drive root-cause analysis.
- Quality practices: Strong grasp of the test pyramid, risk-based testing, TDD/BDD, test data management, and measuring quality via meaningful KPIs (e.g., escape rate, flake rate, MTTR).
- Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional communication; able to influence design for testability and drive consensus on quality standards.
- Documentation: Ability to express test strategies and architectures with clear diagrams/flows and articulate trade-offs.
- Adaptability: Comfortable in fast-paced environments, balancing innovation with operational feasibility.
- Nice to have: Mobile testing experience; security testing exposure (OWASP); accessibility tooling; basic ML/AI evaluation techniques.
Benefits
- The People!
- 90% healthcare premiums company covered
- HSA company contribution
- 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Monthly contributions for life activities & wellness
- Access to LinkedIn learning with monthly dedicated time to explore
- Hybrid, remote-friendly workplace
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