# Software Engineer in Test (SDET) (Ingeniero de Software en Pruebas) - Remote First at Clara Software Engineer in Test (SDET) (Ingeniero de Software en Pruebas) - Remote First at Clara in Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia; Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico; Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil. Remote. Posted October 5, 2026. - Company: Clara - Location: Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia; Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico; Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil - Workplace: Remote - Experience: 4+ years - Posted: 2026-10-05 - Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara/jobs/5257408007 - Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/software-engineer-in-test-sdet-ingeniero-de-software-en-pruebas-remote-first-cla-vfejsm ## Description **Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation.** More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others. We are looking for a **Fullstack/Backend Engineer focused on QA Automation** — a software engineer who builds the infrastructure, frameworks, APIs, and tooling that make automated quality possible at Clara. This is an **engineering craft** role (closer to SDET / SET / platform engineer than classic manual QA): you write production-grade code that enables pods and QA to generate, run, and trust automated tests. ### The Role You build and maintain the systems behind Clara's QA platform: Playwright-based frameworks, services and APIs that support test execution and reporting, CI wiring, and internal tools (e.g. test case / run persistence on Clara's React/Next stack). You collaborate with the QA Automation Lead, Pod Leads, and product engineers so automation is reusable, agent-ready, and owned as real software — not a pile of brittle scripts. ### What You Own - **Automation infrastructure** — Design and implement shared frameworks and libraries for web/API automation (Playwright preferred), with stable selectors, modular architecture, and clear extension points for pods. - **Tooling & services** — Build backend APIs and fullstack components that store test cases, record run results, expose reports, and integrate with delivery workflows (e.g. Linear webhooks, Slack notifications, GitHub Actions). - **Enablement for AI-assisted QA** — Structure frameworks and contracts so agents and CLIs can generate and execute specs reliably (ticket → matrix → runnable tests → evidence). - **CI/CD for quality** — Implement and harden pipelines for smoke and regression suites; reduce flakiness; make failures diagnosable. - **Engineering quality of test code** — Treat automation as a first-class codebase: reviews, tests for helpers, versioning, documentation, and refactoring for maintainability. - **Partnership** — Work with QA engineers on adoption and with product engineers on testability (APIs, data-testid / ARIA, environments, test data hooks). ### What Distinguishes This Role - Stronger software engineering depth than a traditional QA Engineer JD (services, APIs, data models, frontend for internal tools). - Focused on **enabling** automation at scale — not owning all manual exploratory testing for every pod. ### Technical Skills - 4+ years of software development experience (backend and/or fullstack), with demonstrable automation or developer-tooling delivery. - Proficiency in **TypeScript/JavaScript** for Playwright (or equivalent E2E frameworks) and willingness to work in Clara's backend stack (**Java / Spring Boot**) where services or integrations require it. - Experience building and maintaining **test automation frameworks** (web and API); understanding of the test pyramid and when to prefer API vs UI coverage. - Backend fundamentals: REST APIs, relational databases, authentication basics, and clean service boundaries. - Fullstack comfort for internal tools: React / Next.js (or similar) for dashboards and test-management UIs is a strong fit with Clara's internal scaffold direction. - CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar), Docker familiarity, and Git-based collaboration. - Ability to debug flaky tests, environment issues, and integration failures systematically. ### Soft Skills - Builder mindset: you ship frameworks and tools that other engineers adopt. - Clear documentation and communication with QA and product engineering partners. - Comfortable with ambiguity and iterating from working prototypes to reliable platform pieces. - Collaborative code review habits; you raise the bar on test-code quality. - Good English (written and verbal); Spanish is a plus. ### Nice-to-Have - Prior SDET / SET / Test Infrastructure Engineer experience. - Mobile automation (Appium) or BrowserStack. - Workflow orchestration (n8n), Linear/GitHub API integrations, or AI/agent tooling for test generation. - AWS and observability basics for running automation reliably in shared environments. - Fintech / payments domain exposure. - Experience replacing external test-management tools with internal systems.   **Where we work** This is a remote-first role: you'll work from home day to day. You'll ramp up in person with the team, and come together in person for team moments, events and customer visits through the year. ### Why Clara - **A high talent-density team** driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership. - Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one. - An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths. - English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day. ### How we work - **Clarity** — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters. - **Simplicity** — If it can be simpler, it should be. - **Ownership** — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait. - **Pride** — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver. - **ABC (Always Be Changing)** — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning. - **Inclusivity** — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara. If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.