Senior Quality Assurance Engineer; f​/m​/d – SDET; Software Developer in Test

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (f/m/d) – SDET (Software Developer in Test)

Permanent employee,Full-time
· Berlin, Germany

At Wire, we’re on a mission to revolutionise secure collaboration, making privacy the foundation of modern communication. Join us to play an important role in our dynamic team.

Wire is the leading end-to-end encrypted communication platform, trusted by businesses, critical infrastructure providers, and governments worldwide. We prioritise privacy as a fundamental right, delivering the most secure communication experience across various industries. Our cutting‑edge encryption technology and robust security measures have made us a trusted partner in the technology, finance, healthcare, and government sectors. If you’re passionate about redefining secure communication and want to be part of an innovative team, join us as a Quality Assurance Engineer – Web.

Together, let’s build a world where privacy and security shape the future of communication.

Employment Type:

Permanent

Previous working experience: 5+ years

Working hours:

40hrs/week

Working

Location:

Berlin or remote Germany

Desired start date:
As soon as possible

We are hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – SDET to strengthen our automated testing capabilities and drive the quality and reliability of our platform. In this role, you will build, improve, and maintain automation frameworks, enhance our CI/CD pipelines, and promote a culture of continuous testing across the organisation.

You will work cross‑functionally with Backend, Platform, and QA Engineers and operate within the Platform/Backend discipline while supporting multiple scopes. As an active member of our QA Guild, you will contribute to shared best practices, tooling, and testing standards. Your work will directly influence how we build, release, monitor, and scale our platform.

• Improve the testability of software: work closely with scopes & platform teams to help drive & improve the testability of our software.
• Develop and maintain test frameworks design and executing automated tests, improving CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high product reliability and quality.
• Daily collaboration with platform & Backlend to enhance test coverage, streamline deployment processes, and monitor system health through automation and observability tools.
• CI/CD Integration:
  Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines. Work with platform & backend & security to establish best practice.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining clear test reporting for both the scope QA & Clients.
• Work as a core developer across several functions to develop automation tests, and are responsible for managing and configuring our test frameworks.
• Experience in implementing & improving monitoring & observability practices. You will be a key contributor to co‑ordinating and defining how we test within a devops and continuous testing environment.

Skills:

• Programming:
  Proficient in at least one programming language
• Automation Frameworks:
  Experience with automated frameworks such as Selenium or Playwright
• SSDLC understanding: A good understanding of the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC)
• Agility:
  Familiar with agile delivery practices
• Have a “Shift left testing mindset”:
  Demonstrable professional competency in test execution, root cause analysis and attention to detail, with the aim to ”fail fast” and promote the need to test as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
• Version control:
  Experience with versioning & version control
• CI/CD tools: experience with CI/CD tools & the ability to transfer skills to the frameworks in place at Wire.
• Experience with Unit, black box and white box testing techniques
• Experience in working in a fast paced environment that has the passion to scale & improve testing practices
• 5–7 Years of experience of working within a SDET role & proficient in one or more programming languages.
• Experience of executing & managing security testing principles and policies such as (Pen testing, SAST/DAST) and experience in contributing to security focused audits & certifications.
• Strong experience with one or more test…