SDET
Resume Template

A free Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) resume, pre-filled and ready to edit. Replace the highlighted placeholders (frameworks, pipelines, numbers) using the side panel on the left, and the resume rewrites itself as you type. Save as PDF when you're done.

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Last updated: May 12th, 2026 | Free, ATS-friendly, no signup

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Maya Rivera Senior SDET

Austin, TX • maya.rivera@gmail.com • +1 (512) 555-0142

Profile Summary

  • Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing test frameworks across SaaS, fintech, and developer tooling, specialized in shift-left automation, performance engineering, and quality signals at scale.
  • Comfortable across the testing stack with UI automation (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium), API testing (REST Assured, Karate, Postman/Newman), performance testing (k6, JMeter, Gatling), contract testing (Pact, WireMock), and CI/CD orchestration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Testcontainers).
  • Strong grounding in test architecture, contract-first integration, page-object plus fixture patterns, and risk-based prioritization. Comfortable applying shift-left automation and test pyramid and risk-based prioritization to drive shorter feedback loops, lower flakiness, and stronger release confidence in quality engineering at scale.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with backend, frontend, DevOps, and product teams in a fully agile environment, contributing to release planning, on-call coverage, and post-mortems.
  • Bias toward reliable test signals over volume, mentor to junior SDETs and developers learning to write better tests, and frequent contributor to internal testing playbooks and quality engineering forums.

Technical Skills

Languages:
Java, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, SQL, Bash, Groovy
UI & E2E Automation:
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, WebdriverIO, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, Percy
API & Contract Testing:
REST Assured, Karate, Postman/Newman, Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, gRPC testing, schema validation
Performance & Load Testing:
k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, Artillery, soak and stress profiles, SLO baselining
CI/CD & Containers:
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Docker, Testcontainers, Kubernetes, parallel sharding
Mocking & Service Virtualization:
WireMock, MockServer, Mountebank, Hoverfly, stub-runner, golden-file replay
Test Data & Environments:
Faker + factory builders, ephemeral Kubernetes namespaces, anonymized snapshots, seed scripts, on-demand previews
Quality Engineering Method:
shift-left automation, test pyramid and risk-based prioritization, contract-first integration, flaky-test triage, escape-rate analysis, Datadog and Grafana dashboards

Education

University of Texas at Austin B.S. in Computer Science
Austin, TX • Sep 2015 - May 2019

Work Experience

Stripe Senior SDET
Austin, TX • 2022 - Present
  • Owned the payment platform test automation framework supporting 150+ microservices and mobile and web checkout flows, leading end-to-end design and operation across framework architecture, test orchestration, and quality signals within a Kubernetes-based deployment context.
  • Architected a Java + TypeScript test framework on top of Playwright, REST Assured, and Testcontainers, applying parallel sharding and container-per-test isolation to bring full-pipeline regression from 38 minutes to ~12 minutes across 210 services.
  • Drove end-to-end UI coverage for the checkout, dashboard, and merchant onboarding flows with Playwright and visual diffing via Percy, applying page-object plus fixtures pattern to bring flaky-test rate from 9.2% to ~1.4% over two quarters.
  • Built API-layer test suites with REST Assured and Karate against 150+ gRPC and REST endpoints, using schema validation, contract assertions, and golden-file replay to catch ~78% of backend regressions before they reached integration.
  • Designed load, stress, and soak tests with k6 and Gatling for the authorization API and webhooks pipeline, baselining against 2,500 RPS and p99 < 180 ms SLOs, and pulling out four scaling bottlenecks during pre-launch hardening.
  • Stood up service virtualization with WireMock and contract testing via Pact between the payments service and 6 downstream consumers, decoupling release cycles and cutting cross-team blocker tickets by ~52%.
  • Built quality dashboards in Datadog and Grafana tracking flakiness, escape rate, MTTR-to-test-fix, and coverage, partnering with 8 squads to drive flaky tests down 65% and lift escape rate from 3.4% to 0.9% in three quarters.
Atlassian SDET
Austin, TX • 2019 - 2022
  • Defined the test strategy across the Jira mobile team's unit, integration, contract, and E2E layers, shifting ~60% of test investment into the integration and contract tiers and shortening release-candidate validation from 5 days to ~2 days.
  • Built E2E coverage for Android and iOS Jira mobile with Appium and WebdriverIO, applying device-farm parallelization on BrowserStack to take regression runtime from 2 hours to ~35 minutes across 48 device-OS combinations.
  • Wrote API contract tests with Pact and Postman/Newman against 40+ Atlassian Cloud APIs, applying provider verification in CI to catch breaking changes before they shipped, eliminating ~7 hotfix releases per quarter.
  • Triaged and root-caused 600+ flaky-test failures across the mobile suite, partnering with feature teams to drive the flaky rate from 12% to ~3% and embedding a shift-left review checklist into PR templates.

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About this template

A SDET Resume Template,
by a Tech Resume Writer.

Quick intro: I'm a former Google recruiter who founded an engineering CV writer service specialized in IT roles. I build SDET CVs every day, based on what I see hiring managers at competitive tech companies expect a QA automation engineer to actually deliver. So when I tell you what works on a SDET resume, it comes from screening these resumes on the recruiter side, not from a blog post.

The paid service is a full rewrite, where we sit down together and pull out the test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and quality signals behind your daily work. Not everyone wants that custom rewrite, so I built this free SDET resume template for people who want to start from scratch and walk away with an ATS-compliant first draft today. Give it a try.

How it works

How to use this template
to write a SDET resume

The structure was written by a former Google recruiter. The placeholders push you to be specific exactly where SDET hiring managers look: the frameworks you owned, the pipelines you cut, and the quality numbers you moved.

Strong SDET bullets don't show up in one draft. They build in five layers. Layer one names the action. Layers two and three add the framework you used and the surface or pipeline it sat in. Layer four spells out the testing method (the pattern, the strategy, the SLO, the mocking approach). Layer five quantifies what changed: regression runtime, flaky rate, escape rate, contract breakage caught, coverage uplift, services covered. Bullets that land at layer five are the ones an SDET hiring manager actually circles. The framework lives in How to Write Bullet Points for Tech Resumes.

  1. 01 Task What you did
  2. 02 Frameworks Playwright, REST Assured, k6, Pact
  3. 03 Pipelines GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, data
  4. 04 Method Shift-left, contract, SLO, mocking
  5. 05 Metric Quantified impact

This template wires the five layers straight into your bullets so you don't carry the framework in your head. The rail lines up neatly: framework picks feed layer 2, the CI/CD and container picks feed layer 3, the methodology fields feed layer 4, the runtime and rate inputs land at layer 5. The sentence skeletons cover layer 1. Why this matters: you only have to drop in real tools and real numbers. The structure does the rest, and the resume reads at layer 5.

  1. Pick your stack

    Tap a chip to swap Playwright for Cypress or Selenium, REST Assured for Karate or Postman/Newman, k6 for JMeter or Gatling, GitHub Actions for Jenkins, WireMock for MockServer, Pact for Spring Cloud Contract. Every mention updates at once.

  2. Drop in your numbers

    Pipeline runtime cut, flaky rate dropped, escape rate held, contract breaks caught, services covered, RPS and p99 SLOs baselined, blocker tickets reduced, hotfixes avoided. No numbers yet? The defaults pass for a senior SDET resume.

  3. Save as PDF

    Click Download. The page generates a real vector PDF with selectable text and clean US Letter formatting. ATS-parsable.

Resume Sample

SDET Resume Examples

Three sample SDET resumes at different career stages: a developer-to-SDET pivot two years in, a senior SaaS automation IC, and a Fortune-100 lead SDET running quality engineering across multiple squads. Use them as inspiration when filling the template above.

Entry-level SDET Resume Sample 2 years

Junior SDET Resume Example

Developer-to-SDET pivot. Builds test automation on consumer fintech card and expense flows.

Priya Naidu

Junior SDET

San Francisco, CA · priya.naidu@gmail.com · +1 415-555-0117 · linkedin.com/in/priyanaidu

Profile Summary
  • Junior SDET with 2 years of experience writing test automation for consumer fintech card and expense flows, pivoting from a backend developer role with a strong feel for writing testable code, debugging async issues, and shipping under code review.
  • Hands-on coverage across TypeScript, Java, Playwright, REST Assured, Pact, WireMock, k6 (intro), and GitHub Actions, with working knowledge of Testcontainers and Docker Compose.
  • Eager collaborator with senior SDETs, backend engineers, and Product in 2-week sprints, contributing to test plan reviews, PR reviews, and on-call shadow rotations.
  • Career pivot bringing 2 years of Python backend background from a Plaid junior engineering role, with a developer's instinct for where tests buy real signal versus busywork.
Technical Skills
Languages:
TypeScript, Java, Python, SQL, Bash
UI & E2E Automation:
Playwright, Cypress (intro), Selenium WebDriver (proficient)
API & Contract Testing:
REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Pact, schema validation, JSON contract assertions
Mocking & Test Data:
WireMock, Faker, factory builders, golden-file replay (intro)
CI/CD & Containers:
GitHub Actions, Docker Compose, Testcontainers, Vercel preview environments
Performance:
k6 (intro), baseline load profiles, p95/p99 reporting
Method:
Test pyramid, shift-left, PR-gated test execution, bug bashing
Certifications:
ISTQB Foundation Level
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology B.S. in Computer Science Atlanta, GA · Sep 2019 - May 2023
ISTQB Foundation Level (CTFL) Online · 2024
Work Experience
Brex Junior SDET San Francisco, CA · Aug 2024 - Present
  • Built Playwright E2E coverage on the corporate card and expense flows in TypeScript, lifting passing-test coverage from 34% to 72% across 4 critical paths under senior code review.
  • Wrote REST Assured API contract tests against 22 endpoints on the spend-policy service, catching 9 breaking changes pre-merge in the past two quarters.
  • Set up WireMock stubs for 3 downstream consumer integrations, eliminating ~70% of flaky cross-team blockers in PR CI.
  • Triaged 180+ flaky-test failures, partnering with engineers to drop the flaky rate on the card-issuance suite from 11% to ~4%.
  • Contributed to a GitHub Actions matrix refactor that cut the PR test job from 14 minutes to ~6 minutes by parallelizing across Node versions.
Plaid Junior Backend Engineer (pre-pivot) San Francisco, CA · Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
  • Built 8 features across the bank-link API in Python, partnering with senior engineers on code reviews and pair-programming sessions.
  • Wrote pytest unit and integration tests for owned modules, lifting coverage from 56% to 88% with zero escapes on those modules in 4 releases.
  • Contributed to the team's Postman/Newman regression suite for the linked- accounts API, which sparked the eventual move into a dedicated SDET track.

Senior SDET Resume Sample 7 years

Senior SDET Resume Example

SaaS-scaleup automation IC. Owns the marketing-hub regression program from framework architecture to release dashboards.

Marcus Tan

Senior SDET

Cambridge, MA · marcus.tan@gmail.com · +1 617-555-0188 · linkedin.com/in/marcustan

Profile Summary
  • Senior SDET with 7 years of experience building test automation for SaaS marketing and CRM platforms, specialized in Playwright framework architecture, contract testing, and CI/CD-integrated regression at scale.
  • Hands-on coverage across TypeScript, Java, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured, Karate, Pact, WireMock, k6, Testcontainers, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
  • Deep expertise in page-object plus fixture patterns, provider verification in CI, service virtualization, and parallel sharding for long-running regression suites.
  • Cross-functional partner working with backend, frontend, DevOps, and product on release planning, post-mortems, and on-call coverage. Co-runs the org's flaky-test triage rotation.
  • Mentors 3 mid-level SDETs and 2 dev-to-SDET career switchers, authored 4 internal testing playbooks, and contributes to the SDET hiring loop.
Technical Skills
Languages:
TypeScript, Java, Python, SQL, Bash, Groovy
UI & E2E Automation:
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, WebdriverIO, Percy, visual diffing
API & Contract Testing:
REST Assured, Karate, Postman/Newman, Pact, schema validation, gRPC testing
Performance & Load Testing:
k6, Gatling, SLO baselining, soak and stress profiles
CI/CD & Containers:
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Testcontainers, Kubernetes, parallel sharding
Mocking & Service Virtualization:
WireMock, MockServer, stub-runner, golden-file replay
Quality Engineering:
Shift-left automation, test pyramid, contract-first integration, escape-rate analysis
Observability:
Datadog dashboards, Grafana, Splunk, on-call coverage
Education
Northeastern University B.S. in Computer Science Boston, MA · Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
Work Experience
HubSpot Senior SDET Cambridge, MA · Aug 2022 - Present
  • Own the marketing-hub regression program across 85 microservices with Playwright, REST Assured, Pact, and Testcontainers, supporting 6 product squads.
  • Architected the page-object plus fixture framework in TypeScript, cutting full regression runtime from 52 minutes to ~18 minutes via parallel sharding on GitHub Actions.
  • Stood up Pact contract testing between the marketing-hub service and 9 downstream consumers, eliminating ~6 hotfix releases per quarter from missed contract breaks.
  • Built k6 load and soak profiles for the email-sending API baselining against 1,200 RPS and p99 < 220 ms, surfacing 3 backpressure issues pre-launch.
  • Drove the org's flaky-test triage rotation, bringing flaky rate from 7.8% to ~1.6% over 3 quarters through quarantine policy and root-cause reviews.
  • Mentored 3 mid-level SDETs and contributed to 6 hiring loops as a senior interviewer; authored 4 internal testing playbooks.
Drift SDET Boston, MA · Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
  • Built E2E test coverage for the conversational marketing chatbot across 40+ flows in Cypress, lifting passing-test coverage from 41% to 82%.
  • Owned the REST API regression suite against 60+ endpoints with Postman/Newman and Karate, catching ~85% of API regressions pre-staging.
  • Set up the team's first Jenkins parallel sharding pipeline, taking nightly regression from 3 hours to ~45 minutes.
  • Triaged 400+ flaky failures, partnering with engineers to drop flaky rate from 14% to ~4% and embedding a shift-left test review in PR templates.

Lead SDET Resume Sample 11 years

Lead SDET Resume Example

Fortune-100 quality engineering lead. Owns the card-payments quality program across 3 squads and a compliance audit trail.

Renata Oduya

Lead SDET

New York, NY · renata.oduya@gmail.com · +1 212-555-0193 · linkedin.com/in/renataoduya

Profile Summary
  • Lead SDET with 11 years of experience leading quality engineering on regulated financial-services platforms, specialized in framework governance, contract-first integration, and compliance-grade audit trails for quality signals.
  • Hands-on coverage across Java, Python, TypeScript, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, REST Assured, Karate, Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, JMeter, Gatling, and Jenkins.
  • Deep expertise in cross-squad framework governance, shift-left quality programs, SOX and PCI test-evidence pipelines, and multi-vendor QA team partnerships across 3 product squads and 2 offshore vendors.
  • Cross-functional leader partnering with engineering, risk, compliance, and product on quality roadmaps, defining RFC processes for test architecture and chairing the quality engineering guild.
  • Tech lead for 9 SDETs across 3 squads, mentoring 4 senior SDETs toward staff trajectory, and author of the org's SDET career framework.
Technical Skills
Languages:
Java, Python, TypeScript, Groovy, SQL, Bash
UI & E2E Automation:
Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, visual diffing
API & Contract Testing:
REST Assured, Karate, Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, schema validation, gRPC testing
Performance & Load:
JMeter, Gatling, k6, soak profiles, capacity modeling, SLO governance
CI/CD & Containers:
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Testcontainers, parallel sharding
Quality Engineering:
Framework governance, RFC processes, escape-rate review, flaky-test SLOs
Compliance:
SOX, PCI-DSS test evidence, audit trails, change-control gates
Leadership & Certs:
ISTQB Advanced (Test Manager + Test Analyst), mentorship, hiring loops, vendor management
Education
Columbia University B.S. in Computer Science New York, NY · Sep 2010 - May 2014
ISTQB Advanced Level (Test Manager + Test Analyst) Online · 2019 and 2021
Work Experience
American Express Lead SDET New York, NY · Mar 2021 - Present
  • Tech lead for the card-payments quality program across 3 product squads and 2 offshore QA vendors, owning framework governance, SLOs, and the SDET career framework.
  • Led the migration from Selenium-based legacy regression to a Playwright + Karate framework in Java and TypeScript, retiring 180k lines of legacy test code and cutting full regression runtime by 3.4x.
  • Architected the SOX and PCI-DSS test-evidence pipeline in Jenkins generating audit-ready reports per release, reducing compliance evidence prep from 4 weeks per quarter to ~3 days.
  • Drove the flaky-test SLO program across squads, dropping flaky rate from 10.2% to ~1.1% and lifting weekly release confidence to a recorded 0 rollbacks across 38 releases.
  • Defined the org's SDET RFC process, shepherding 14 RFCs through review and adoption; chairs the bi-weekly Quality Engineering Guild across 6 product orgs.
  • Mentored 4 senior SDETs toward staff trajectory and contributed to 9 hiring loops per year as a senior interviewer and bar-raiser.
Bloomberg Senior SDET New York, NY · Sep 2014 - Feb 2021
  • Owned the terminal-data API regression suite against 200+ endpoints with REST Assured and Karate, catching ~92% of API regressions pre-release across 4 service teams.
  • Built the firm's first contract-testing program with Spring Cloud Contract between the market-data service and 14 downstream consumers, ending a recurring class of release- blocker incidents.
  • Designed JMeter load and soak profiles for the real-time quotes pipeline, baselining against 8,000 RPS and p99 < 95 ms and surfacing 6 capacity gaps before peak earnings windows.
  • Mentored 6 junior and mid-level SDETs and contributed to the org's switch to a shift-left model with per-PR contract validation.
  • Authored the firm's internal flaky-test classification taxonomy, adopted across 5 product orgs as the basis for quarantine and escape-rate reporting.

Frequently asked

Your Questions about the SDET Resume Template, Answered

Yes, the whole thing is free. No signup, no email gate, no paid plan hiding under it. Open the page, drop in your real frameworks and quality metrics, save the PDF, and you are done.

Yes. The exported PDF stays single-column with the section headers ATS systems read by default (Profile Summary, Technical Skills, Education, Work Experience). No tables, no images, no two-column tricks. Workday, Greenhouse, and iCIMS handle it cleanly. If you want a second pair of eyes on the export, drop it into our ATS Checker.

You can. Press Edit at the top of the preview and click into any sentence on the paper to type over it. The side-panel placeholders keep flowing in as you change them; everything else is plain editable text you can rewrite to match your real testing work.

Hit Download. The browser builds the PDF on the spot, no print dialog, no signup, no server in the loop. The output is real vector text on US Letter, parsed by ATS systems exactly the same way they parse any clean resume export.

Yes, swap the defaults. The template leans Playwright + REST Assured + k6 + GitHub Actions + Pact + WireMock + Testcontainers because that mix shows up most in 2026 senior SDET JDs, but every reference is a placeholder. Use the chips to swap Playwright for Cypress or Selenium, REST Assured for Karate or Postman/Newman, k6 for JMeter or Gatling, GitHub Actions for Jenkins or GitLab CI. The side panel rewrites the resume across every mention.

No. SDET hiring managers screen on substance: the frameworks you actually built, the flakiness you brought down, the pipeline runtime you cut, the contract tests you stood up, the SLOs you held. Layout origin is not on the rubric. What does cost interviews is a template padded with vague QA-speak, which this one is structured to prevent. The skeleton came from a former Google recruiter; the substance is yours.

Yes. Fill the template, save the PDF, then drop it into the free resume review at the bottom of this page. I read every submission personally within 12 hours and reply with notes on framework framing, metric phrasing, scope, seniority, and where the SDET-specific signals are weak.

Why trust this template

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google recruiter and tech resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre

Former Google recruiter · Tech resume writer

I built this SDET template from the patterns I saw work, not from generic QA advice. Below is the data behind every bullet, skills line, and metric placeholder.

  • Experience Hundreds of SDET and QA engineer resumes screened across SaaS, fintech, and infrastructure tooling during my Google recruiter years and at TechieCV. The Profile Summary and Skills sections mirror what survives the 6-second screen for an automation-heavy QA hire.
  • Expertise Bullets modeled on senior offers. The most-recent-role section is structured the way IC4 to IC6 SDETs write their experience when they land scaleup and Fortune-100 interviews: framework ownership, CI/CD-integrated test orchestration, and quality metrics tied to release reliability.
  • Trust Stack reflects the 2026 hiring bar. Playwright + REST Assured + k6 + GitHub Actions + Pact is the default toolchain on the rail; suggestion chips cover realistic alternatives (Cypress, Selenium, Karate, JMeter, Gatling, Jenkins, WireMock) so you can match your real toolchain without losing keyword fit.
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