Senior SDET, PAM at Keeper Security
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Aug 3, 2026
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Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level SDET role on a Privileged Access Management team, responsible for architecting and building automation frameworks that validate complex, security-sensitive access workflows across cloud infrastructure, identity providers, and enterprise environments. The role centers on automation framework design, CI/CD integration, and system-level quality engineering — not manual testing or security analysis. Candidates must be US Persons due to FedRAMP compliance requirements.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 880–1,550
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 5, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role is fully remote but also mentions a hybrid option for candidates near El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL; Chicago is used as the primary metro since it is the larger of the two named markets.
Python and JavaScript/TypeScript are listed as 'and/or' — Python is named first and is the primary; JavaScript and TypeScript are alternatives satisfying the same requirement.
Playwright and Pytest are listed as 'such as' examples of modern automation tools under the requirements section, making them hard gates on the automation-tool capability; each is emitted separately since they serve distinct purposes (browser automation vs. Python test framework), with the other noted as an alternative per the posting's framing.
GitHub Actions is listed under responsibilities with 'or similar' framing; it is captured as a hard gate on CI/CD tooling capability since it appears in the requirements section context.
Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS appear together under 'Familiarity with containerized or cloud-native environments' in the requirements block — 'familiarity with' is a softer qualifier, but the skill sits in the hard-requirements section, so it is treated as a gate.
AI-assisted tools (Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) are explicitly required ('Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively') in the requirements section.
SSH, RDP, and VNC appear only under Preferred Qualifications ('Exposure to remote access protocols'), so they are marked preferred.
PAM/identity-centric security product experience appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The posting requires candidates to be a US Person (due to FedRAMP compliance) but does not gate on holding or obtaining a formal US security clearance — clearance is set to None.
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