SDET Lead

About Liven Join the revolution in hospitality tech! Liven is a leading global data, technology, and customer experience provider for the hospitality industry. With over 6,000 venues and millions of diners served across Australia, the USA, and Southeast Asia, we process more than 120 million transactions worth over AUD 3 billion annually.

Our platform helps businesses save more and work smarter by integrating every aspect of their operations—from ordering and payments to back‑of‑house management. Powered by AI‑enriched insights and automated workflows, we enable smarter decision‑making and smoother operations at scale, freeing our teams to focus on solving complex problems, delighting guests, and driving growth.

Key Milestones

Expansion: Acquired OrderUp, Abacus, Zeemart, Copper and Nomnie, forming Asia Pacific’s largest end‑to‑end group in hospitality technology.

Global Reach: Operating from Melbourne to New York, Singapore to Jakarta, and Chennai, spanning major cities worldwide.

About the Role As an SDET Lead at Liven, you will play a hands‑on technical leadership role in shaping our quality engineering practices and automation strategy. You’ll architect and develop testing frameworks, guide engineering teams on testability, and ensure our backend services—built in Express.js (Node.js) and Go—are reliable and scalable.

What You'll Do

Lead and contribute hands‑on to the design, development, and evolution of testing architecture and automation frameworks.

Architect and implement high‑quality automated test suites (unit, integration, contract, and E2E) for Node.js/Express and Go services.

Integrate automated tests efficiently within CI/CD pipelines.

Collaborate with engineers to embed testability into system design and promote high‑quality code practices.

Drive exploratory testing and guide advanced testing efforts for complex, distributed systems.

Define quality standards, testing strategies, and metrics across engineering teams.

Mentor SDETs and engineers, uplifting skills and fostering a strong automation and quality culture.

Qualifications

8–12 years of experience in test automation, software engineering, or quality engineering.

Strong hands‑on programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Go.

Extensive experience architecting and scaling automated testing frameworks.

Proficiency with automated testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, Supertest, Go test, Testify, or Ginkgo.

Strong experience with E2E tools like Playwright or Cypress.

Solid understanding of API testing using tools such as Postman or REST‑assured.

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD environments.

Excellent debugging, problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized test environments.

Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact).

Experience with performance testing and profiling methodologies.

Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Background working with large‑scale distributed systems.

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