Lead SDET - Revex
HighLevel
Skill Required
Key highlights
- 7+ years of experience in software testing and automation required, with 3+ years in lead or senior role
- Lead SDET role with hands-on framework development and mentorship responsibilities
- Strong coding skills required in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Java
- Customer-first approach with focus on real-world reliability and user experience
- Experience developing tools to improve QA organizational productivity required
- HighLevel powers 4 billion+ API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily across 1 million+ domain names
Role overview
HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes. To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, they help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently. Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, their architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability. The company operates as a global, remote-first organization with over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries. This role focuses on going beyond traditional QA, building frameworks, improving testing approaches, and ensuring fast, reliable releases with minimal bug leakage. The Lead SDET will influence architecture, enable shift-left testing practices, and motivate the team to innovate in how they approach product quality. They will drive technical quality initiatives, set examples for the team, mentor peers, and ensure product excellence across performance, scalability, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Set quality standards and best practices across UI, API, performance, and scalability testing
- Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks for UI and API testing
- Conduct code reviews for junior engineers, guide them in understanding the impact of code changes, and enforce scalable automation patterns
- Drive early quality practices by embedding testing in the design and development phase; ensure automation catches bugs as early as possible
- Partner with product and engineering teams to validate scalability, performance, and infrastructure-level quality
- Provide technical quality insights on microfrontend architecture and databases (MongoDB, Firebase, etc.)
- Inspire, mentor, and guide the QA/SDET team to continuously improve their technical skills and testing mindset
- Encourage new approaches beyond traditional testing methods, focusing on efficiency, faster delivery, and minimal bug leakage
- Work with developers, PMs, DevOps, and product stakeholders to ensure quality is owned across the product lifecycle
- Drive RCA for all prod issues and plug the defect leakage gaps
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software testing and automation, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role
- Proven experience building and scaling automation frameworks for both UI and API
- Strong coding skills in languages commonly used for test automation (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java)
- Solid understanding of performance, scalability, and infrastructure testing
- Hands-on experience with microfrontend architectures and databases like MongoDB and Firebase
- Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring team members
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automation for continuous testing
- Proven experience managing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications
- Ability to influence product architecture and design with a quality-first mindset
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
- Customer-first approach: ensuring quality translates to real-world reliability and user experience
- Experience in developing tools which helped QA org to improve the productivity
Additional details
- HighLevel is an Equal Opportunity Employer with affirmative action regulations; demographic information may be voluntarily provided for government compliance purposes and is kept separate from application and hiring decisions
- Company privacy policy is available for review before submitting application
- Originally posted on Himalayas
- HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations monthly for more than 1 million businesses
- Company YouTube Channel and Blog Posts available for learning more