SDET Lead - Playwright Framework Architect (Remote)

dutch; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working location

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Flexible PTO

Mental Wellbeing Options

Robust Holiday Schedule

RRSP

Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Dutch Vet is seeking an SDET to own test infrastructure and quality strategy across our applications. You'll design test frameworks, drive testability standards, and build automation that catches regressions across the full testing pyramid.

You will report to the Director of Quality Assurance. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support to ensure testability, scalability, and reliable releases while advancing Playwright-based testing and CI/CD practices in a fully remote

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a software engineering or SDET role with strong programming fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience building test frameworks from scratch.
• TypeScript or JavaScript proficiency for framework code.
• Experience designing CI/CD test pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
• Understanding of the testing pyramid and test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the Playwright-based test framework architecture, including page object patterns, test data management, and CI integration.
• Drive a testability contract with developers and advocate for testable architecture in design and code reviews.
• Own the testing strategy across the pyramid — ensure the right tests exist at the right layer.
• Build and maintain tiered CI pipelines: smoke on deploy, regression nightly, full suite weekly.
• Automate revenue-critical and marketing-critical flows (checkout, registration, analytics/tracking, SEO validation).
• Write production monitoring tests that verify system and vendor availability (Stripe, Calendly, fulfillment integrations).
• Identify, triage, and track bugs with clear reproduction steps and root cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering, product, and customer support to review requirements and provide early feedback on testability and risk.

Skills

SDET experience

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

CI/CD pipelines

API testing

Mobile test automation

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Maestro/Appium

Job description

Dutch Vet is seeking an SDET to own test infrastructure and quality strategy across our applications. You'll design test frameworks, drive testability standards, and build automation that catches regressions across the full testing pyramid.

You will report to the Director of Quality Assurance. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support to ensure testability, scalability, and reliable releases while advancing Playwright-based testing and CI/CD practices in a fully remote