Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Vault
Remote, US·Posted today
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<p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>About Keeper</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>About the Job</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Develop, maintain and execute automated test scripts using Playwright and related frameworks</li> <li>Design and implement end-to-end automation strategies for Vault web applications and user workflows</li> <li>Maintain and enhance existing automated test suites as application functionality evolves</li> <li>Automate manual test scenarios using API-driven and UI-based test workflows</li> <li>Perform functional, regression, integration, exploratory and cross-browser testing</li> <li>Validate application behavior across Chrome, Firefox, Safari and other supported environments</li> <li>Identify, document and track software defects and verify fixes through retesting</li> <li>Analyze test failures, logs and application behavior to isolate root causes and improve defect quality</li> <li>Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows and help improve release confidence</li> <li>Participate in code reviews and contribute to test architecture, coding standards and automation best practices</li> <li>Partner with software engineers to improve testability, automation coverage and overall product quality</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience in SDET, test automation, software engineering or a related technical testing role</li> <li>Strong programming or test automation experience using JavaScript/TypeScript & Python</li> <li>Hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end automated tests using Playwright, Cypress or similar frameworks</li> <li>Strong understanding of test automation design, code quality and maintainable test architecture</li> <li>Experience testing modern web applications across multiple browsers</li> <li>Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or SQL Server</li> <li>Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated build systems and defect tracking tools</li> <li>Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across application, API and automation layers</li> <li>Ability to collaborate effectively with Engineering, Product and QA teams in an Agile development environment</li> <li>Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve automation development, debugging, analysis and documentation</li> </ul> <h2>Preferred Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li>Experience testing browser extensions or Electron-based desktop applications</li> <li>Experience with additional testing frameworks such as Jest or RobotJS</li> <li>Experience testing security-sensitive, identity or cybersecurity products</li> <li>Familiarity with accessibility, performance or reliability testing</li> <li>Experience working in fast-paced SaaS environments</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships</li> <li>Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life</li> <li>Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance</li> <li>401K (Roth/Traditional)</li> <li>A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p>Classification: <strong>Exempt</strong></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p> </p> <p class="pf0"><strong><span class="cf0">Keeper Candidate Privacy Notice</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">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).</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 1. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Data We Collect</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Information You provide:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Application responses and uploaded documents</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Information We generate:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Interview notes, assessments, communications</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Scheduling information</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Information From Others:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Recruiter/referral information who submit your profile</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">References (with your consent, before final offer)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Public professional profiles</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Background verification (post offer)</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> Voluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">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</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 2. </span><strong><span class="cf0">How We Use Your Data</span></strong></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Assess your application and suitability</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Manage interviews and recruitment workflow</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Comply with employment law obligations</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 3. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Legal Basis</span></strong></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Legal and regulatory compliance obligations; explicit consent where required</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 4. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Who We Share Information With</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Internal: </span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">HR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">*Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Third Parties:</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Service providers who assist with:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Background verification vendors (post offer)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Recruitment agencies (where applicable)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Tools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Keeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place.</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 5. </span><strong><span class="cf0">International Transfers</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">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. </span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">6. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Security</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">7. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Retention</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it. </span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Exceptions:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">You're hired (transfers to employee records)</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 8. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Your Rights</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:</span></p> <ul> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Object to or restrict processing</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Withdraw consent (where applicable)</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Request data portability</span></li> <li class="pf1"><span class="cf1">Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority</span></li> </ul> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">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. </span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">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.</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1"> 9. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Automated Decisions</span></strong></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.</span></p> <p class="pf0"><span class="cf1">10. </span><strong><span class="cf0">Contact</span></strong><span class="cf1"> - Candidates can send privacy questions to: privacy@keepersecurity.com</span></p> <p> </p></div>