Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Filevine
$160,000–$185,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior test automation engineer role on a telephony platform, responsible for designing and building automated test frameworks and custom tooling across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing applications. The work is heavily backend-oriented, with a focus on testing asynchronous and event-driven systems where conventional UI-driven automation falls short. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable applying GenAI/LLM tools to testing challenges and mentoring others.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 850–3,050
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 $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109). 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 (6)
The posting does not specify a city; Filevine is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, but the role appears to be open to remote candidates based on the compensation structure and no stated location requirement — remote=true is a reasonable inference.
C# and Java are listed as interchangeable options ('such as C# or Java'); C# is named first and is Filevine's primary stack language, so it is used as the primary skill name with Java in alternatives.
GenAI/LLMs applied to engineering productivity and test generation is listed in the required Qualifications block, making it a hard gate despite its emerging nature.
The 'Nice to Have' section lists telephony/VoIP testing, AI/conversational agent testing, front-end frameworks, mocking/stubbing, GitLab, CI/CD, and Playwright — all marked preferred. Note that mocking/stubbing and CI/CD appear under 'Nice to Have' even though they read as advanced techniques; section placement governs.
The role is tooling-heavy and backend-leaning with significant custom framework development, which creates genuine ambiguity with 15-1252 Software Developers; 15-1253 is chosen because the primary mission is quality assurance and test automation ownership across the platform.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): asynchronous/event-driven service testing, AI/conversational agent testing.
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