Title: Sr. SDET Automation Engineer

Location: Hybrid Santa Clara United States

Job Description:

Meet Yubico: the creator of the most secure passkeys and leading provider of hardware authentication security keys. Our company’s mission is to make secure login easy and available for everyone. Yubico was founded in 2007 by Stina and Jakob Ehrensvard, and is public on Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market: YUBICO. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of government agencies and millions of individuals in over 160 countries that rely on Yubico technology to secure access to computers, online services and mobile apps. Our global customer base includes organizations of varying sizes, from large corporations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Hyatt, to companies like Dyson. We  are a global company with a strong company culture and employees located in over 14 countries. Yubico’s  headquarters are based in Stockholm, Sweden, Santa Clara, CA and Singapore. Aligned with our mission to make the internet more secure for everyone, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations helping at-risk individuals through our philanthropic initiative, Secure it Forward.

The Role:

We are looking for a Sr. SDET Automation Engineer who is passionate in driving test automation strategy and execution across software and hardware products to ensure quality. You are a QA expert, mentor, and developer who thrives and excels at delivering results at scale. Your primary role will be building testing tools, automation frameworks, and collaborating to identify areas suitable for automated testing. You will develop test framework features to enable developers and testers to author automated tests.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining robust, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks (e.g., for UI, API, and integration testing).
• Converting existing manual test cases into automated test suites using tools like Appium, Selenium, and Playwright.
• Performing manual, exploratory, and regression testing when appropriate.
• Developing and executing API and backend tests using tools like Postman or REST Assured, or pure code.
• Contributing to and improving our CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborating with software and hardware engineers, product managers, and other QA professionals to define test strategies and requirements.
• Writing detailed test cases and scenarios using data-driven or behavior-driven (BDD) approaches.
• Tracking, triaging, and reporting on bugs and test coverage metrics to improve overall system quality.
• Helping to integrate automation in hardware/software systems, including USB interfaces, stepper motors, and embedded components.
• Influence best practices for quality engineering, shift-left testing, and test automation adoption.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience with both automated and manual testing.
• 5+ years' experience of working in an SDET position.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science٫ Engineering or related area.
• Significant experience working in/with software development teams and using software QA methodologies and tools.
• Significant experience automating test cases for a complex system.
• Experience with automated testing tools.
• Able to thoroughly define and concisely document bugs.
• Significant experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Experience testing a product encompassing both software and hardware components. 
• Able to document clear٫ concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• The ability to work with and comprehend modern programming languages (e.g., C#, C++, and Python).

Bonus Skills:

• Led or contributed to building a new test framework.
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with USB interfaces, stepper motors, and embedded software.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum development principles.

At Yubico, we offer:

Freedom and Flexibility: At Yubico, we want you to be your most productive selves whether you decide to work 100% from home or choose to work hybrid/onsite. The way we balance the fast-paced demands of a high-growth company and sustainability is making rest a priority.

Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico. 

U.S. benefits designed for your overall well-being:

Health coverage. We’ve got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision. We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family.

Retirement plan. Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year. Immediate vesting.

Wellness reimbursement. We offer $1,200.00 in wellness earnings (prorated based on start date) that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes. This is a taxable benefit if you choose to participate.

Learning and development. We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program. 

Time off. We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year.

Paid parental leave. We love welcoming new family members to our YubiTeam! All parents receive 8 weeks of paid leave. Birthing parents receive an additional 8 weeks of paid leave (16 weeks total). 

Commuter Benefits. If you need to commute to the office, we offer commuter benefits. 

Strong mission & company values. We’re a global team on a global mission to make the internet more secure for everyone. We believe that every person’s work matters. That you should always be nice, stay humble, and have fun, and never take yourself too seriously.

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Yubico offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work. This role has the annual salary range as defined below for a salary pay range for a candidate located in the San Francisco Bay Area. For roles that are filled in other locations, the compensation range will be based on data provided by the Radford McLagan Compensation Database from Aon. Final compensation is also based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Salary Pay Range

$140,000 - $165,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.