SDET/ Senior SDET

About Sleek

Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs.

We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space.

We operate 3 business segments:

• Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with :5% market share of all new business incorporations
• Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service
• FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses
  
  

Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 500 staff with an intact startup mindset.

We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia.

Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Singapore.

Mission:

At Sleek, we are on a mission to deliver intelligent, resilient, and high-performance software systems that transform user experiences across industries. We are seeking a SDET who is passionate about quality, automation, and architectural excellence to pioneer our next-generation test automation strategy. If you're eager to drive innovation in test engineering, collaborate cross-functionally, and lead the transformation of quality assurance in a complex, cloud-native, real-time environment, this is your calling.

Outcomes:

Collaborate with domain squads and acquire core business knowledge of Sleek

Support fail-fast culture by executing automated tests upon code commit

Coverage should be above 80% at any point on time for features within automation scope

Support strategic initiatives such as Sleek 2.0 through creation of automated tests

Add in negative validation or scenarios for production issues within 2 weeks of occurrence

All business critical flows (happy path and negative path) should be 100% covered before release

Maintain 100% pass rate for all the automated test execution results and raise failures

Factor in non-functionality requirements into automation suites (e.g. <3s page load times)

Enable developers within squads to maintain and initiate automation of tests once developed (shift-left approach)

Enhance the existing framework to improve reporting capabilities, enabling customized coverage of test execution mapped to the source code

Making sure tests can be executed in parallel for a maximum execution duration of 10 mins for each module, and up to 30 minutes for the entire regression suite

Ensure defect leakage of regression suite is not be more than 5% of total defects found

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience in software development, and 1+ years in testing, with primary programming language being NodeJS
• Deep experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, Robot Framework)
• Proven success integrating test automation with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
• Experience in microservices testing, API validation (e.g., Postman, REST-assured), and backend automation
• Familiarity with container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Hands-on knowledge of performance testing, security testing, and real-time streaming validation is a plus
• Strong understanding of software architecture, testing pyramid, and risk-based testing
• Strong debugging skills and ability to conduct root cause analysis on failures of both automation tests and code
• Experience with AI/ML in testing and tools for visual/UX validation is a strong plus
• Excellent decision making skills, mentoring, problem-solving, and communication skills
  
  

About The Interview Process

The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages.

It might seem like a lot - but fear not - we come prepared! We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish depending on your availability.

Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role.

• Screening Interview: : 30 minute conversation with HR
• Case study: :60 minute live test
• Hiring Manager interview: :45-60 minute interview
• Behavioural fit interview: :45-60 minutes with a member of leadership
• References checks & Offer
  
  

Benefits

• Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment
• Flexibility: You'll be able to work from home 2 days per week. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don't mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year
• Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Additionally, depending on location you'll be able to access our pa flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure
• Personal growth: You'll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you'll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There's also a range of internal and external facing training programmes we run. We're also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional
  
  

Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp. Since we started our journey in 2017, we've been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we've joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy. We have planted over 29,271 trees to reforest our ecosystem and saved 7 tons of paper from landfills by processing over 1.4M pages through SleekSign. We aim to be Carbon Neutral by 2030.