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About the Role
Stuut is transforming accounts receivable for B2B companies, making collections smarter and faster. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Test to drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of automated testing across our platform, ensuring reliable and high-quality releases.
Responsibilities
- Set the Quality & Automation Strategy: define the long-term vision for automated testing, including frameworks, tooling, coverage strategy, and quality gates.
- Build & Scale Automation Frameworks: design and implement robust, maintainable automation across integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
- Drive Test Coverage Planning: lead test planning with product squads, ensuring critical functionality is identified, prioritized, and automated effectively.
- Stabilize Pipelines & Reduce Flakiness: own the health, speed, and reliability of test pipelines — leading efforts to reduce flaky tests and strengthen feedback loops.
- Architect & Maintain Test Environments: collaborate with Infrastructure to build and maintain scalable, realistic test environments aligned with customer use cases.
- Improve Developer Velocity: optimize CI/CD test stages, reduce cycle times, and introduce automation and tooling that accelerates safe deployments.
- Automate New Feature Testing: partner with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to define test strategy and build automation for new features.
- Lead Root Cause Analysis & Triage: guide teams through systematic debugging of failures, ensuring issues are resolved at their true source.
- Influence Engineering Quality Culture: promote strong testing patterns, testability principles, and quality-first thinking across teams.
- Mentor & Level Up the Team: coach engineers in automation best practices, framework design, troubleshooting, and quality ownership.
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of experience in test automation or software engineering, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead test engineering role.
- Have architected or maintained large-scale automation frameworks supporting rapid iteration across backend, frontend, and async systems.
- Understand how to design high-signal, low-maintenance automated test suites for modern stacks including FastAPI, Vue.js, and event-driven systems like Inngest.
- Are comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, RDS PostgreSQL) and testing distributed systems.
- Have a strong understanding of CI/CD and know how to optimize automation workflows for speed, signal, and stability.
- Can convert product requirements into a clear, executable test strategy across multiple layers of the stack.
- Enjoy collaborating with Product, Backend, Frontend, and DevOps teams to elevate quality and reliability.
- Thrive in a role that combines technical depth, automation architecture, and leadership influence in a fast-moving environment.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- Playwright
- Cypress
- pytest
- REST API testing frameworks
- FastAPI
- Vue.js
- Inngest
- Turborepo
- Docker
- Vercel
- AWS EKS
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- RDS PostgreSQL
- CI/CD
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in test automation or software engineering
- at least 3 years in a senior or lead test engineering role
Salary/Compensations
- Top-of-market salary and equity package
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- 401(k) & Match
- Equity
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
About the Company
- Stuut is transforming accounts receivable for B2B companies—making collections smarter and faster for companies that have historically relied on manual processes that are labor intensive and costly.
- Our platform is gaining traction with finance teams across industrials, chemicals, and manufacturing sectors from Fortune 10 brands to scaling midmarkets.
- We're backed by top-tier investors including a16z, Khosla, Activant, 1984 Ventures and Page One.