Senior SDET

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior SDET to join our Medidata team in New York, NY. This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Execution

• Implement Context-Driven Testing and Session-Based Test Management to evaluate risks and test effectiveness.
• Translate user stories/requirements into comprehensive tests.
• Identify tasks, dependencies, and risks during backlog grooming and planning, providing reasonable test estimates and feedback on priorities.
• Investigate, diagnose, and address technical issues and product risks based on impact assessments.
• Understand and proactively apply modern test design principles to increase overall test effectiveness.

Automation & Engineering

• Utilize and enhance automation frameworks to create resilient test scripts across different layers (e.g., UI and API Acceptance Tests).
• Identify gaps in the current automation suite and help prioritize them into the team backlog.
• Assist with effective test reporting and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure CI/CD pipelines have thorough test coverage.
• Contribute to the continuous evaluation of new testing tools, techniques, and strategies.
• Leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate development, but require a strong software engineering foundation.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Collaborate closely with developers and business analysts to provide constructive feedback on software design and testability.
• Drive the adoption of modern test practices, process improvements, and new initiatives across the team.
• Share product knowledge, present ideas to other teams, and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Support team members, represent Medidata at external industry forums, and occasionally participate in the hiring process.

Requirements

• Education & Experience

  • 4 to 8 years of relevant industry experience.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Required Experience & Skills

  • Ability to clearly articulate technical issues and present ideas effectively to cross-functional teams.
  • Experience leveraging AI to supplement coding, testing, and automation workflows.
  • Previous experience in the clinical or life sciences industry is a strong asset.
  • Deep intellectual curiosity and a drive to independently work through complex technical issues.
  • Strong Agile experience and comfortable collaborating with offshore team.
  • Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven ability to validate and troubleshoot REST APIs using a variety of approaches.
  • Experience in UI automation testing.

• Technical Competencies

  • Highly preferred Core Stack Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Playwright, and Cucumber.
  • Preferred Modern Tooling: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions).
  • Encourage the use of AI tools (like GitHub Copilot), but must possess the core engineering skills to critically review, debug, refactor, and refine the generated code.

• Professional Skills

  • Agile Environment: Strong Agile experience and comfortable collaborating with offshore team members.
  • Problem Solving: Deep intellectual curiosity and a drive to independently work through complex technical issues.
  • Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical issues and present ideas effectively to cross-functional teams.
  • Bonus: Previous experience in the clinical or life sciences industry is a strong asset.

We Offer

• Salary: The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the NYC Metro Area is $96,000-128,000. For other locations within the United States, the range is $85,500-114,000.
• Benefits: Medidata provides benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, family leave, flexible paid time off, and 10 paid holidays per year.

About the Company

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Medidata are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Medidata is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Medidata will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until we fill the position.