Employer description & source details
If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career! Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition. The Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role is critical in driving engineering-led quality by ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our products. This role contributes directly to customer experience, release confidence, and overall product stability through strong automation practices and proactive quality ownership. By strengthening test automation, CI/CD integration, and defect prevention strategies, this role will significantly reduce production defects, improve system stability, and accelerate development velocity. Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and backend testing. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, improve pipeline efficiency, and establish effective release gates. Improve test environment reliability through better environment management, test data practices, and flaky test reduction. Lead performance testing, including load, stress, and scalability testing; identify bottlenecks and work with engineering teams on solutions. Debug complex failures across distributed systems and services, lead root cause analysis, and help prevent recurring issues. Use AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools, such as Claude, Cursor