Top Software Test Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and CI/CD-integrated pipelines. Lead functional, integration, regression, and performance testing across distributed systems and telephony platforms. Mentor engineers, analyze failures using logs/metrics, execute load/stress tests, and improve test infrastructure, reliability, and engineering productivity.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll create and conduct automated tests, resolve technical issues, and collaborate with development teams to ensure software quality.

Own test planning, exploratory and risk-based testing, and automation across sprints. Partner with product teams to define acceptance criteria, maintain test environments, contribute to regression suites, surface defects, and develop a testing specialization (automation, API, performance, security, or release coordination).

Lead quality engineering for Accident Management by defining test strategy, writing automation-ready acceptance scenarios, designing test frameworks, improving CI/CD signals, partnering with QA automation engineers, reviewing automation PRs, and establishing release-readiness evidence across UI, APIs, and observability.

As a Software Engineer, Test & Infrastructure II, you will develop automated test frameworks and validate real-time call flows while collaborating with peers in a hybrid environment.

Build and maintain scalable integration and end-to-end test automation frameworks, optimize CI pipelines and test execution, improve test stability and reporting, support engineering teams with triage and best practices, write technical specs/ADRs, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the company test strategy.

Lead QA activities for an IAM program: design and implement QA methodologies, create and run manual and automated tests, perform code/product reviews, triage defects, validate functionality/performance/security, and support CI/CD, UAT, and release validation across Agile teams.

Design, develop, and execute manual and automated tests for the Clearing platform. Build and maintain automated test frameworks, API and UI automation, and CI pipelines. Ensure system reliability, performance, and stability by collaborating with engineering and product teams. Use Docker/Kubernetes, databases, and AI-powered testing tools to automate test generation and execution.

Develop and maintain automated tests and test frameworks (E2E, unit, integration, performance), integrate testing into CI/CD, collaborate with engineers and product teams to find and document defects, and improve test infrastructure and processes for PDQ products.

The Software Test Engineer will design, implement, and maintain test frameworks for back-end services, ensuring product quality through test case creation and automation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test II, you'll develop automated tests for routing and switching hardware, improving test efficiency while collaborating with engineering teams.

Lead SDET for the VL Autonomy program responsible for expanding the System Integration Testing automation framework and driving overall test strategy. Develop CI/CD test automation, design and maintain API test frameworks, create test scripts/cases/data, perform exploratory/manual testing, mentor and lead QE engineers, coordinate with product owners and cross-functional teams, and participate in design and AVT discussions. Hybrid onsite role in Chicago.

Hands-on SDET responsible for building and maintaining Playwright/TypeScript automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers; debugging flaky tests; designing OpenCode-based agent workflows for test generation and failure triage; developing test data strategies; and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines with reliable gating and artifact retention.

Lead quality efforts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing apps. Design and implement automated test frameworks, build custom tooling and load testing solutions, improve testing pipeline scalability, mentor engineers, and apply GenAI/LLMs to testing and test-generation challenges.

Lead development of automated API, UI, and end-to-end tests for a real-time trading platform. Extend AI-assisted test generation, build scalable CI/CD test frameworks for order lifecycles and market-data streams, reduce flakiness, triage failures, mentor engineers, and drive quality and testability across the product.

The SDET designs, develops, and maintains automated test solutions for SmartRent products, focusing on enhancing automation frameworks, integrating tests into CI pipelines, and improving testing methodologies.

Lead development of scalable test strategy and infrastructure across legacy and microapp platforms. Build end-to-end UI automation, API and contract tests, integrate suites into CI/CD, design performance/load tests, maintain test environments, and champion quality practices while partnering with engineering and product teams.

Own quality engineering for Commerce: run structured manual QA, build E2E automation (storefront, checkout, brand portal), wire tests into CI, define Shopify-specific compatibility playbooks, set quality metrics and gates, participate in planning and spec reviews, and lead the teamto shift coverage left.

As a Senior SDET, you will design and maintain test automation frameworks, embed with product teams to ensure quality, and implement AI-powered testing solutions.

Design and own AI-agent-driven test workflows and the automated verification framework. Build test context, select models and tooling, validate AI-generated code and tests, operate test automation across UI/API/mobile/data, ensure security and compliance, mentor teams, and continuously improve agent orchestration and observability.

Own quality engineering and test automation for BRINC's LiveOps web platform and backend services. Design and maintain automated API, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks, validate security/IAM controls and ML/vision outputs, build test infrastructure, run performance/load testing for real-time streaming and teleoperation, integrate tests into CI/CD, triage failures, and produce quality metrics and release-readiness reports.

Lead test strategy and build scalable automated frameworks to validate performance, reliability, and security of a custom Linux kernel for AI/Compute platforms. Design CI/CD and build automation, develop test suites for kernel and VM software, debug low-level system issues, benchmark performance, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Lead test strategy and build scalable automated test frameworks for a custom Linux kernel. Validate performance, reliability, and security; develop test suites for kernel enhancements and VM software; debug low-level system issues; enhance CI/build automation; provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.

Design and implement automated quality systems for disaster recovery and production environments, enhancing reliability through automation and intelligent diagnostics, while collaborating with QA and engineering teams.