Senior Test & Release Engineer

Soraban builds AI-powered tax workflow software for accounting firms. Our platform processes high volumes of tax documents during seasonal peaks, and reliability, scale, and correctness are critical for our customers.

We’re an onsite engineering team, with offices in San Francisco, CA and Tempe, AZ.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Test & Release Engineer to own test strategy, test automation, manual testing, and release quality across the platform.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You will define test plans, perform exploratory testing, build and maintain automation, manage test infrastructure, and enforce quality gates for every production release.

You may need to review work from contract SDETs, but you are expected to write and own tests yourself.

Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Coverage
  • Define test plans for new features and system changes
  • Translate requirements and user flows into risk-based test cases
  • Identify high-risk areas and maintain strong regression coverage
  • Define and track measurable test coverage goals
• Test Automation
  • Build and maintain end-to-end tests using Playwright
  • Design coverage across UI and API layers
  • Work with dev team to integrate tests into the CI/CD pipelines
  • Reduce flakiness and improve execution speed
• Release Quality & Gates
  • Define and enforce release readiness criteria
  • Validate staging before production deploys
  • Support rollback and hotfix validation
  • Reproduce incidents and prevent regressions
  • Reduce escaped defects over time
• Test Infrastructure & Data
  • Own test environments and test data management
  • Ensure staging environments are production-representative where appropriate
  • Maintain stable CI test pipelines and reporting
• Release Process
  • Work within git-based release workflows (branching, tagging, hotfixes)
  • Validate release artifacts before production deploys
  • Improve release discipline and rollback safety
• Performance & Risk Validation
  • Partner with engineering to validate performance for major changes
  • Support load or stress testing when required
  • Ensure system behavior is acceptable under peak conditions
• Collaboration
  • Work closely with Product to clarify acceptance criteria
  • Partner with Engineers during development to prevent defects early
  • Review and guide contract SDET contributions as needed

Required Experience

• 5+ years in SDET/test engineering roles
• Strong experience with Playwright or similar E2E automation frameworks
• Strong hands-on manual and exploratory testing experience
• Experience building automated test suites from scratch
• Deep understanding of functional, regression, and integration testing
• Experience with git-based release workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems
• Strong debugging skills and ability to isolate root causes
• Experience managing test data and environments

Nice to Have

• Experience testing SaaS platforms with multi-tenant architectures
• Experience with tax or other document-heavy workflow software systems
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Exposure to performance or load testing frameworks
• Experience working in high-reliability or seasonal peak systems

Interview Process

• Phone screen
• Take home test automation assignment
• Technical interview over Zoom
• Conversation with the CEO
• Offer

We're a small team and move quickly. If you're someone who thrives with ownership, can work independently, and loves breaking things (in the best possible way), we’d love to hear from you.

Important Notes:

• Instead of a cover letter, please share links to work we can review (e.g., products, repos) to quickly assess fit.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.
• Principals only; please do not contact us if you are a recruiter.