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SDET – Automation Engineer

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Job Description & Details

This SDET role is a straight‑up contract gig in Charlotte, NC, focused on building and maintaining automation frameworks for a fast‑moving enterprise testing team. If you’ve spent years writing WinRunner, QTP or SilkTest scripts and want to own the test automation pipeline, this is the kind of hands‑on work that actually moves product quality forward.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

You’ll spend most of your day designing, coding and debugging automated test scripts, then wiring them into a reusable framework that the whole team can run nightly. Expect frequent collaboration with developers to clarify ambiguous requirements, and a lot of time triaging failed runs, digging into logs, and pushing defects upstream. Mentoring junior testers on tool quirks and best‑practice patterns is also on the docket.

The Core Tech Stack

The stack is old‑school but still in production: WinRunner, QTP (QuickTest Professional), SilkTest and TestComplete are the primary automation tools. You need to be comfortable extending those with custom VBScript or C# libraries and stitching them into a framework that can scale across multiple applications. The company relies on these tools for regression coverage, so deep knowledge of their object‑recognition models and limitations is non‑negotiable.

Interview Expectations

  1. Explain how you would refactor a flaky QTP script that intermittently fails due to dynamic object IDs. The interviewer wants to see your strategy for synchronization, object repository management, and whether you can introduce robust error handling without rewriting the whole test.
  2. Design a simple data‑driven framework using TestComplete that can run the same test across three environments. They’re probing your ability to abstract test data, parameterize runs, and integrate results into a CI pipeline.

Application Advice

Tailor your resume to echo the exact tool names – WinRunner, QTP, SilkTest, TestComplete – and highlight any framework you built from scratch. Use verbs like “designed”, “maintained” and “scaled” alongside “automation framework development”. If you have a certification or a project where you reduced manual test time by a measurable percentage, surface that right up front. The ATS will be scanning for those keywords, so keep them prominent in both the skills section and your experience bullet points.