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Lead SDET

Wispr Flow· Software - Platform
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San Francisco, Remote (US)$130k - $170kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to build the quality practice behind Flow. Own test strategy, write automation, and personally investigate the product while helping the QA team grow.

Responsibilities

  • Build reliable automation. Develop and maintain automated tests for critical journeys across desktop, mobile, backend services, and integrations. Choose the right mix of unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage.
  • Make regression testing continuous. Partner with engineering to run automated checks against internal builds, integrate them into CI/CD, and establish dependable release gates.
  • Test beyond the happy path. Personally explore real-world voice workflows, permissions, device and network changes, cross-app behavior, and updates. Catch usability and consistency issues as well as functional bugs.
  • Own release confidence. Prioritize testing by risk, investigate failures, and use test results, telemetry, and customer impact to make clear release recommendations.
  • Bring quality into development. Work with engineering, product, design, and support from planning through launch. Turn requirements, incidents, and escaped defects into better coverage.
  • Lead through doing. Set standards, coach our QA team and testing partners, and coordinate coverage while remaining hands-on and driving testing yourself.

Qualifications

  • An experienced quality engineer. You’ve owned testing for complex software and built or maintained automated suites that teams rely on.
  • A capable programmer. You can write readable test code, build fixtures and test harnesses, debug failures, and keep automation reliable in CI.
  • A systems thinker. You reason across clients, APIs, operating systems, and integrations. You know where mocks help and where real devices and end-to-end checks are essential.
  • An incisive investigator. You turn vague reports into reproducible bugs, use logs and other evidence to isolate causes, and distinguish product failures from test or environment failures.
  • Product-minded and detail-oriented. You care about usability, responsiveness, accessibility, and trust, and know which risks matter most to users.
  • A hands-on leader. You communicate clearly, coach others, and build useful processes in a fast-moving team. Experience with native apps, audio, speech recognition, or AI output evaluation is a plus.

Skills

Required:Automation testingCI/CD integration
Nice to have:Exploratory testing

Benefits

  • Equity on employee-friendly terms, including extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs.
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

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