
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Backbase (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Backbase· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam·
Role details
Level
Senior
Job description
The Job In Short
As a Senior SDET, you don't just find bugs; you prevent them. You act as a quality architect for a complex business domain, partnering with Product and Engineering to "shift left" and bake quality into the design. You combine deep technical expertise with mentorship, driving test automation, AI adoption, and a culture of quality ownership across your team.
Meet the Job
- Drive Strategy: Champion the "Shift Left" approach, utilizing the V-Model to map acceptance criteria to unit, integration, and regression levels.
- Automate Everything: Build and own the test infrastructure, coding robust automation for all acceptance suites within our CI/CD pipelines.
- Innovate: Implement AI-driven testing tools to accelerate test case generation and visual regression checks.
- Coach & Mentor: Guide engineers on TDD/BDD practices, ensuring the entire team writes high-quality, testable code.
- Quality Gatekeeper: Challenge requirements early to ensure they are unambiguous, complete, and fully testable before a single line of code is written.
How About You
- Tech Stack:.Senior-level proficiency in Java is mandatory, along with proficiency in at least one other language (Python or JavaScript), with the ability to code complex automation.
- Tooling Expert: Hands-on mastery of frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) and CI/CD configuration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Methodology: Deep understanding of the SDLC, the V-Model, and how to define provable acceptance criteria.
- Forward-Thinking: Experience with or a strong desire to apply AI testing techniques to modern quality challenges.
- Mindset: A proactive collaborator who takes full ownership of domain quality and thrives on solving impediments independently.
Why work at Backbase
- Culture: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement.
- Work model: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally.
- Perks: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one.
- Engineering focus: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots.