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About the Role
Wispr is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to establish and lead the quality assurance practice for their product, Flow. This role involves owning test strategy, developing automation, and guiding the QA team while actively investigating the product.
Responsibilities
- Build reliable automation for critical journeys across desktop, mobile, backend services, and integrations.
- Develop and maintain automated tests, choosing the appropriate mix of unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage.
- Make regression testing continuous by partnering with engineering to run automated checks and integrate them into CI/CD.
- Establish dependable release gates.
- Test beyond the happy path by exploring real-world voice workflows, permissions, device and network changes, cross-app behavior, and updates.
- Catch usability and consistency issues as well as functional bugs.
- Own release confidence by prioritizing testing by risk, investigating failures, and making clear release recommendations based on test results, telemetry, and customer impact.
- Bring quality into development by working with cross-functional teams from planning through launch.
- Turn requirements, incidents, and escaped defects into improved test coverage.
- Lead through doing by setting standards, coaching the QA team and testing partners, and coordinating coverage while remaining hands-on.
Requirements
- Owned testing for complex software.
- Built or maintained automated test suites that teams rely on.
- Can write readable test code, build fixtures and test harnesses, debug failures, and keep automation reliable in CI.
- Reasons across clients, APIs, operating systems, and integrations.
- Knows where mocks help and where real devices and end-to-end checks are essential.
- Turns vague reports into reproducible bugs.
- Uses logs and other evidence to isolate causes.
- Distinguishes product failures from test or environment failures.
- Cares about usability, responsiveness, accessibility, and trust.
- Knows which risks matter most to users.
- Communicates clearly.
- Coaches others.
- Builds useful processes in a fast-moving team.
- Experience with native apps, audio, speech recognition, or AI output evaluation is a plus.
Skills
- Automation testing
- Test strategy
- CI/CD integration
- Regression testing
- Usability testing
- Functional testing
- Risk assessment
- Telemetry analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Programming
- Debugging
- Systems thinking
- Native app testing
- Audio testing
- Speech recognition evaluation
- AI output evaluation
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Experienced
About the Company
- Wispr is an AI research and product company building the voice interface for computing.
- They are building toward an interface that can perceive, understand, and take action with earned trust.
- Their goal is to build the first voice interface used every day by a billion people.
- They are a talent-dense team that holds strong opinions, tests them quickly, and builds technology that sparks joy.
Equal Opportunity
- We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification.
- We're rethinking how humans interact with AI, and doing that well demands diversity of perspective and experience.
- We're committed to a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.