Senior SDET

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound. 

  

Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences. We invite you to join us in this transformation. 

Job DescriptionThink you know Bose? Look closer.

We’ve spent more than 60 years finding new ways to bring quality audio products to people—in their homes, in cars, planes, and just about anywhere there is an opportunity to enjoy music. Our legendary QuietComfort® noise cancelling headphones, SoundLink® speakers, and home theater systems may ring a bell with you. Behind every iconic Bose product is a rigorous commitment to quality — ensuring every connection, every feature, and every listening experience performs as intended, every time. Bose relies on exceptional people to create and deliver those products to our customers.

The future of consumer electronics at Bose isn’t just about award-winning speakers or headphones. It’s about the end-to-end consumer experience enabled by connected features and services. Helping people feel more connected, productive, and inspired through exceptional product experiences. At Bose, we’re obsessed with delivering amazing experiences through superior technology and design. That experience depends on reliability, performance, and seamless integration across hardware, firmware, cloud services, and mobile applications — areas where strong automation and quality engineering leadership make a measurable impact.

As we expand our team, we are building a modern Quality Engineering organization that will drive automation-first strategies and embed quality deeply into our CI/CD pipelines across all consumer product lines.

About the Role

As a Senior SDET based in Framingham, you will help define and build Bose’s cloud quality engineering strategy for AWS-based platforms and distributed services.

 

This is a hands-on build-and-lead role. You will design scalable test infrastructure, improve automation coverage, and embed quality into CI/CD pipelines and cloud development workflows.

 

You will work closely with Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Release Engineering, and Software teams to improve reliability, reduce defects, and enable faster, safer releases.

 

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable automation frameworks for API, integration, system, regression, and performance testing
• Develop reusable validation infrastructure for cloud-native services, microservices, and event-driven systems
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with clear quality gates and failure triage workflows
• Partner with DevOps to improve pipeline speed, parallelization, and infrastructure efficiency
• Define and track metrics for automation coverage, test reliability, release confidence, and defect detection
• Lead test strategy for AWS-hosted services and production-readiness validation
• Drive defect triage and root cause analysis using logs, telemetry, and observability tools
• Improve test environment setup, service mocking, test data management, and reporting
• Establish automation standards and best practices across engineering teams
• Mentor engineers and promote high-quality, maintainable test code

 

What You BringExperience & Technical Depth

• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, SDET, or test automation
• Strong experience testing cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, microservices, and APIs
• Proven success building or scaling automation frameworks from the ground up
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with Java or C++ is a plus
• Experience with integration, system, regression, performance, load, and scale testing
• Strong debugging, defect triage, and root cause analysis skills

 

AWS & Cloud Expertise

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as:
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudWatch
  • IAM
• Experience validating cloud workloads running in Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools for cloud diagnostics and reliability analysis

CI/CD & Automation

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD systems such as:
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
• Strong understanding of pipeline orchestration, automation reliability, and release quality gates
• Ability to define and use quality KPIs to improve engineering decisions and release confidence

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to lead across cross-functional teams and influence cloud quality strategy
• Strong communication skills with both technical teams and leadership
• Passion for raising the quality bar through scalable automation and engineering discipline

Why This Role Matters

• Direct impact on the reliability and scalability of Bose’s connected cloud platforms
• Opportunity to build foundational automation and validation capabilities across AWS-based services
• High-visibility role influencing release confidence, engineering efficiency, and product quality
• Key contributor to reducing customer-facing defects and protecting the Bose brand through exceptional connected experiences

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $123,000-$169,050.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary. In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences. We are a proudly independent company—driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we’re creating what’s next—pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let’s Make Waves.

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Bose is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. The EEOC’s “Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal” Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf. Bose is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Please include "Application Accommodation Request" in the subject of the email.

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