Software Engineer 2 (SDET) at Illumina

Design, build, and modernize automated test frameworks, tooling, and suites into scalable platforms for our industry-leading DNA sequencing instruments.
Author and run API, UI, service-level, functional, and end-to-end tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery.
Own test coverage and quality for features from design through production release, building deep full-stack understanding of the platform to validate system behavior and shape robust test strategies.
Automate tests in parallel with feature development to provide early validation and fast feedback.
Drive shift-left practices, partnering with developers so unit and integration coverage catches defects before they reach system-level testing.
Act as a true engineering partner to developers - improving code quality, testability, and design rather than serving as a downstream tester.
Perform exploratory testing to surface issues automation cannot easily catch, and convert findings into durable automated coverage.
Build and enhance test infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for reliable nightly, regression, and release validation runs, applying AI-based solutions to improve pipeline efficiency, failure analysis, and reliability.
Support and improve environment setup, deployment workflows, and orchestration across cloud and distributed systems.
Apply AI-assisted tools across the testing lifecycle - authoring, debugging, coverage, code review, edge-case discovery, root cause analysis, and release documentation.
Continuously identify testing gaps and propose AI-assisted approaches to improve validation coverage and efficiency.
Participate in design and code reviews, advocating for testability, observability, reliability, and overall system quality.
Contribute to release-process compliance and identify opportunities for process and tooling improvement.
Collaborate across time zones with project managers, developers, and quality assurance peers in Singapore and the United States, jointly accountable for product quality, and help drive automation and AI adoption across testing workflows.
Tech Stack
Java, Python, and C#, depending on the functional component
TypeScript / JavaScript
Playwright, Karate, Cucumber/Gherkin, pytest
GitHub Actions, Jenkins
PostgreSQL
Docker, Kubernetes (K3s)
Linux Shell
AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, LLM-based agents and workflows)

Software Engineer 2 (SDET)

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