Description
Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform,where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.
We're looking for a Senior SDET to own quality engineering end-to-end. This is a greenfield opportunity , you'll define the strategy, choose the tools, and build the automation infrastructure from scratch. You'll work directly alongside our engineering team as the first quality engineer, so you need to be self-sufficient, opinionated, and driven. This is a 70/30 role: 70% automation, 30% exploratory and manual testing.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement our QA strategy from the ground up
- Build and maintain automated test suites across API, UI, and integration layers
- Integrate testing into our CI/CD pipelines and own the quality gates
- Perform exploratory and manual testing on new features and releases
- Define quality metrics and report on them to the wider team
- Collaborate with engineers to improve testability at the design stage
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate test creation and coverage
Requirements
- 5+ years in SDET, QA Engineering, or similar
- Strong hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured, or similar)
- Proficiency in Typescript and Python
- Experience building test infrastructure from scratch , not just inheriting existing frameworks
- Solid understanding of CI/CD and integrating tests into pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Familiarity with AI-assisted testing tools and an appetite to keep up with the space
- Comfortable working independently without a QA team around them
Nice to Have
- C# and/or Java experience is an advantage
- Experience with contract testing (Pact or similar)
- Performance testing exposure (k6, Locust)
- Accessibility testing awareness (WCAG, axe-core)
- Temporal.io experience
Additional Information
Compensation starts at 6,000 EUR per month, with the final offer determined by the candidate’s seniority and experience.