Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Vault

Description

Keeper Security is hiring an experienced SDET Automation Engineer, Vault to develop and execute automated test scripts, enhance test suites, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless user experiences across web applications. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL metro area.

Keeper’s cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. Keeper is published in 23 languages and sold in over 150 countries Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and help drive the quality, reliability, and automation maturity of Keeper’s enterprise-grade secrets management platform.

About Keeper

Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at KeeperSecurity.com.

About the Job

As a SDET Automation Engineer within Keeper’s Quality Engineering organization, you will develop and execute automated test scripts using the Playwright framework, ensuring seamless functionality for web applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and implement effective test automation strategies, while maintaining and enhancing existing test suites in alignment with application updates.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset, deep automation expertise, and the ability to influence quality strategy across teams. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, security engineers, SRE, and product teams to deliver high-quality, resilient features for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and execute automated test scripts using Playwright and related frameworks
• Design and implement end-to-end automation strategies for Vault web applications and user workflows
• Maintain and enhance existing automated test suites as application functionality evolves
• Automate manual test scenarios using API-driven and UI-based test workflows
• Perform functional, regression, integration, exploratory and cross-browser testing
• Validate application behavior across Chrome, Firefox, Safari and other supported environments
• Identify, document and track software defects and verify fixes through retesting
• Analyze test failures, logs and application behavior to isolate root causes and improve defect quality
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows and help improve release confidence
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to test architecture, coding standards and automation best practices
• Partner with software engineers to improve testability, automation coverage and overall product quality
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms to improve test development, debugging, root-cause analysis, documentation and workflow efficiency

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in SDET, test automation, software engineering or a related technical testing role
• Strong programming or test automation experience using JavaScript/TypeScript & Python
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end automated tests using Playwright, Cypress or similar frameworks
• Strong understanding of test automation design, code quality and maintainable test architecture
• Experience testing modern web applications across multiple browsers
• Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or SQL Server
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated build systems and defect tracking tools
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across application, API and automation layers
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Engineering, Product and QA teams in an Agile development environment
• Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve automation development, debugging, analysis and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing browser extensions or Electron-based desktop applications
• Experience with additional testing frameworks such as Jest or RobotJS
• Experience testing security-sensitive, identity or cybersecurity products
• Familiarity with accessibility, performance or reliability testing
• Experience working in fast-paced SaaS environments

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships
• Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life
• Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401K (Roth/Traditional)
• A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)

Keeper Security, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Classification: Exempt

Keeper Candidate Privacy Notice

This notice explains how Keeper Security processes your personal data during recruitment. Depending on the role and location, the Controller of personal data (the organization responsible for determining why and how personal data is processed) will be Keeper Security Inc. (US), Keeper Security EMEA Ltd. (Ireland), or Keeper Security APAC K.K (Japan).

1. Data We Collect

Information You provide:

• Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter
• Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility
• Application responses and uploaded documents

Information We generate:

• Interview notes, assessments, communications
• Scheduling information

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• Recruiter/referral information who submit your profile
• References (with your consent, before final offer)
• Public professional profiles
• Background verification (post offer)

Voluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information

• We may ask you to voluntarily provide diversity information including race/ethnicity, gender, disability status and veteran status (US). Providing this information is optional and Keeper collects this data in order to comply with EEOC and similar requirements

2. How We Use Your Data

• Assess your application and suitability
• Manage interviews and recruitment workflow
• Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)
• Comply with employment law obligations

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• Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)
• Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)
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Internal:

• HR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration

*Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.

Third Parties:

Service providers who assist with:

• Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers
• Background verification vendors (post offer)
• Recruitment agencies (where applicable)
• Tools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data

Keeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place.

5. International Transfers

Your data may be accessed by Keeper entities globally as needed for the purposes of hiring and decision making. We protect any such data transfer between Keeper entities using appropriate safeguards under applicable data protection laws.

6. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.

7. Retention

We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it.

Exceptions:

• You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)
• You're hired (transfers to employee records)

8. Your Rights

You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:

• Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements
• Object to or restrict processing
• Withdraw consent (where applicable)
• Request data portability
• Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority

If you become an employee, your rights regarding your employee record are governed by our internal Employee Privacy Notice and certain data will be retained as required under relevant laws such as employment or tax law. 

When you request access to your personal data, some information may be redacted if it includes the personal data of other individuals or information that we must protect in order to preserve their privacy rights.

9. Automated Decisions

Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.

10. Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: [email protected]