Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) at SpryPoint
Ontario
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Jul 9, 2026
Ontario
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior automation engineering role focused on building a test automation framework from scratch at a utility software company. The position involves designing the framework architecture, writing API, integration, and end-to-end UI tests, embedding them into CI/CD pipelines, and evaluating AI-assisted testing tools. It suits an experienced engineer who codes fluently and is comfortable setting standards that other engineers will follow.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,250 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 2,550–6,400
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).
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 titled 'Senior SDET' and is explicitly framed as a hands-on, high-ownership individual-contributor position — no people-management duties are described. 15-1253 is the primary SOC; 15-1252 is a credible runner-up given the strong developer-coding emphasis and framework-building scope.
The coding language requirement ('at least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript') is a single interchangeable gate; Python is listed first and used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The automation framework requirement ('Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium') is similarly a single interchangeable gate; Playwright is listed first.
AI coding assistant experience (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) is listed under the main 'What You Bring' requirements section with firm language, so it is treated as a hard gate. The specific tools are interchangeable alternatives.
Claude and Claude Code familiarity appear separately under 'Nice to Have' and are marked preferred.
Performance testing (k6 / JMeter) and security testing exposure are listed under 'Nice to Have' and are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The company is Canadian-headquartered (Charlottetown) but explicitly hires across North America with a remote-first policy; the caller has confirmed this is a fully-remote, national US candidate pool.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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