Senior AI SDET Engineer at Octaura
New York, NY
$150,000–$180,000from the description
Jul 29, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SDET role at a fintech company building trading infrastructure for loans and CLOs. The engineer will own performance testing strategy (load, stress, endurance, capacity, and scalability testing), contribute to automation framework architecture using TypeScript and Playwright, and help establish AI-assisted engineering practices across the quality engineering organization. The role involves hands-on coding, mentoring, and close collaboration with software engineers and architects.
Senior level · 7+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 65 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 40–120
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 $133,411 (middle half $102,189–$162,640). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role sits at the intersection of performance engineering and automation framework development, making it a genuine hybrid between 15-1253 (QA/Testing) and 15-1252 (Software Developers). Performance engineering is listed as the primary focus, and the automation work is substantial and production-quality, but the organizational home is the Quality Engineering org — 15-1253 was chosen as primary.
k6, Artillery, Gatling, JMeter, and Locust are presented as interchangeable options ('one or more … or equivalent'); k6 is listed first and used as the canonical name with the others as alternatives.
Playwright is listed under 'Strongly preferred' language in the required qualifications section, but given the role's explicit TypeScript/Playwright platform focus throughout the responsibilities, it is treated as a hard gate.
Java, Python, and C# are explicitly labeled 'Good to have' in the posting and are marked accordingly as preferred.
AI tooling is called out as a significant part of the role (agentic development practices listed as a primary focus), but no specific AI product is named — captured generically as preferred.
The posting states the base pay range is for New York specifically; the role does not appear to be remote-eligible based on the office perks described (daily breakfast, onsite gym).
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI code generation tools.
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