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Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Air · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

onsiteunknownPosted Sep 3, 2026SeleniumJavaScriptPythonPostgreSQLJIRAJava

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**Company Description** Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers. **Job Description** We are seeking an exceptional Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as our quality champion and join our team to support our company’s product development process. You will work hand-in-hand with our development team to identify elements that need improvement and revision—whether that involves minor performance glitches or critical bugs. You will be responsible for constructing and performing both automated and manual testing while producing associated documentation to help with finding and correcting problems in the future. Through focus testing and automation, you will identify high-impact areas to enhance platform quality, maintain an excellent user experience, and drive new feature functionality. This role is full-time and located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA. **It may require up to 10% travel.** **Scope of Responsibilities** - Create, design, and develop automated testing, including creating and running automated regression test scripts - Formulate detailed test plans; create test cases, test scripts, test data, and expected results for both manual and automated testing - Assist in managing development/DevOps processes toward a CI/CD workflow with a continuous release focus - Work directly with the development team to iteratively plan, test, and release high-quality feature development - Understand customer requirements and help design solutions to meet them - Generate team metrics and insights to improve development practices - Proactively identify opportunities to reduce risk and improve performance - Manage and track defects/bugs using JIRA and coordinate defect review meetings to prioritize defects - Coordinate with the development team for feature release and defect management **Qualifications** - U.S. Citizenship is required - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience **Required Skills** - Prior experience working in a product organization - 3+ years of Software Development in Test experience, including testing methodologies, standard QA/development tools, and the ability to operate within short-release cycles - 3+ years of software test automation experience with: Selenium, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL - Minimum 3 years hands-on experience developing regression and functional test plans, managing defects, and implementing automated testing - Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills - Ability to balance long-term roadmap vision with shifting short-term priorities in an agile, startup environment - Exceptional written and verbal communication with both client-facing and technical teams - Ability to work autonomously with little supervision in a fast-paced environment - Self-motivated and organized **Desired Skills** - Current U.S. security clearance, or ability to obtain one with sponsorship - Experience/exposure to startup or entrepreneurial environments - Experience and interest in National Security - Proficiency working with Java applications - Experience with performance/stress/load/volume testing - Understanding

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