Whisk - Staff Software Engineer in Test

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering in test (SET/SDET) or similar platform-quality engineering roles • Strong software engineering background with expertise in platform engineering, developer productivity tooling, test infrastructure, or automation frameworks • Experience working in engineering organizations where teams are responsible for product quality and automated testing throughout the development lifecycle • Deep understanding of CI/CD practices, quality gates, release governance, and modern software delivery pipelines • Proven ability to define engineering standards, testing contracts, and integration patterns that enable consistency and scalability across teams • Experience designing and implementing testing strategies across distributed systems, multiple domains, or large-scale engineering organizations • Strong architectural judgment with a pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach to technical decision-making • Ability to influence engineers, technical leads, and engineering leadership without direct authority • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally across Quality, Engineering, Foundation / Platform Engineering, and Delivery organizations • Relevant technical experience may include languages such as TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, Python, or Go; testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, REST-assured, or similar; and platform technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, or equivalent cloud infrastructure. • Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd • You have built quality infrastructure used by multiple teams • You have helped teams move away from centralized testing toward team-owned quality • You have designed CI/CD quality gates that improved confidence without slowing delivery • You know where platform standardization helps and where it becomes a bottleneck • You have strong views on how AI-assisted or spec-driven development should be validated and governed • You can act as a technical leader without needing line management authority • What Success Looks Like • Teams can own automated testing within clear platform standards • Quality gates provide reliable signals without becoming bottlenecks • Testing practices are consistent without centralizing execution • Quality infrastructure supports AI-assisted and spec-driven development • The quality platform becomes a force multiplier for engineering