Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET

Position: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Ensora Health is the leading provider of software and services for mental and behavioral health therapists, trusted by over 200,000 individual providers and more than 28,000 practices.  Our unmatched expertise, partnership, and breadth of products allow us to fine-tune solutions that meet the specific needs of everyone from solo practitioners to larger practices. With AI-enabled solutions that span practice management to electronic medical records and e-prescribing to billing, we help eliminate administrative complexity and create harmony between therapists, their clients, and the whole healthcare community.
** Job Description
**** Job Description
** As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will lead automation efforts and champion AI-driven testing strategies to improve efficiency, coverage, and reliability across

We are looking for an SDET with deep expertise in test automation and a strong command of AI-driven testing strategies. This role will lead automation efforts, mentor junior team members, and champion the use of AI to improve test efficiency, coverage, and reliability across distributed, cloud-native systems. To ensure that we have a repeatable process and systems to thoroughly test and uncover defects, quality engineering uses best of breed tools for automation and testing frameworks in conjunction with in-house tooling, infrastructure and services.

SDETs are embedded in each agile development team to facilitate and lead the testing strategy and test automation requirements for every iteration and release. The quality engineering team also regularly meets to review and improve overall testing processes, automation, innovations and best practices. Each quality engineer works both independently and as part of a product group, where SDETs write functional tests and the quality engineering framework team supports the testing infrastructure and automation.

In addition, they provide guidance for best practices and develop testing systems for smoke testing, behavioral testing, stress testing, performance testing, as well as supporting quality metrics.

The SDET is a strong voice for quality that actively pursues quality improvements, writing code, developing new infrastructure and tests to support our fast paced, highly diversified development organization.
** Responsibilities
* ** Assist in architecting and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks using PHP, C# and Playwright.
* Lead the adoption of AI tools (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Git Hub Copilot, Testim) to enhance test generation, prioritization, and defect prediction.
* Integrate AI-assisted testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops and Git Hub Actions.
* Collaborate with developers to ensure testability and quality in design.
* Conduct performance, load, and security testing using both traditional and AI-enhanced tools.
* Work within cloud and containerized environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, MCP servers).
* Mentor junior SDETs and drive innovation in test practices.
* Work together with product managers, agile product owners, architects, tech leads and engineers to ensure the quality of our products
* Participate in technical discussions for products and test infrastructure
* Execute Quality best practices, tools, and methodologies
* Identify areas for improved testing efficiencies, test automation and implementation of automated test solutions
* Constantly evaluate the test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, coding standards, etc.)
* Participate with developers in writing prolific test case code using PHP, C# and .NET
* Build and maintain efficient test frameworks and pipelines for performance, stress, and integration tests
* Work in an agile model as part of a team to develop fully automated test cases for functional, unit, and integration testing
* Take a hands-on approach to implementing QE processes right from requirements analysis, test design, implementation, automation, execution, maintenance and analysis
** Qualifications
* ** 3+ years of experience in test automation or software development.
* Solid Proficiency in PHP, C# and .NET and test frameworks relevant to your tech stack.
* Proficiency in SQL (Maria

DB, MySQL, SQL Server)
* Hands-on experience with Playwright and AI tools for testing, code generation, or data analysis.
* Familiarity with Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, and CI/CD best practices.
* Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and MCP servers.
* Strong understanding of software architecture, testing best practices, and AI/ML fundamentals.
* Excellent communication, leadership, and mentoring skills.
* Solid test design skills, test case writing, automation and analysis
* Experience with shell to utilize command line tools
* Experience with continuous integration tools
* Experience with testing frameworks like PHPUnit, xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest.
* Knowledge of mocking and dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Moq,…