Sr. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST (SDET) at Kelly Services
Atlanta, GA
$56.59–$61.59/hrfrom the description
Jul 15, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A 12-month contract role focused on building and maintaining automated test frameworks for enterprise cloud-based applications. Day-to-day work involves designing scalable automation solutions covering UI, API, and backend services, creating reusable testing libraries, and integrating quality checks into CI/CD pipelines. Suited to an experienced automation engineer comfortable working across distributed systems with tools like Selenium or Cypress and languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
Senior level · 5+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 290 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 220–380
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $108,127 (middle half $84,672–$129,404). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is a 12-month contract engagement, posted at $56.59–$61.59/hr.
The posting is hybrid (not fully remote), based in Atlanta, GA.
Programming language requirement is 'one or more of Java, JavaScript, C#, or Python' — Java is listed as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives; all are equally acceptable.
Selenium, Cypress, and REST Assured are listed together as interchangeable automation framework options under the required section; Selenium and REST Assured are also emitted separately to reflect both UI and API testing gates, with alternatives cross-referencing each other.
AWS services (EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CodePipeline) appear under 'Desired Skills' and are consolidated into a single AWS skill marked preferred.
Docker, Terraform/Chef/Puppet, and WireMock/Mockito all appear under 'Desired Skills & Experience' and are marked preferred accordingly.
CI/CD is inferred as a hard gate from the required section's mention of 'CI/CD quality pipelines' in the role framing and the required source control experience; no specific CI/CD tool is named as required.
An alt SOC of 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted given the role's emphasis on building automation frameworks and reusable libraries from scratch, which overlaps significantly with software development work.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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