AI-Assisted SDET: Playwright & API Automation

FastTek Global; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental (FastTek pays a big

Vision

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

Job summary

FastTek Global in Okemos, MI is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design and implement automated UI and API tests using Playwright with TypeScript. You will expand the framework, create reusable fixtures, and validate data with Oracle SQL while collaborating with developers and product owners.

This hands-on role emphasizes quality engineering, AI-assisted testing practices, and continuous integration through Jenkins, Git-based workflows, and robust test architectures to

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience using Playwright with TypeScript for UI and API automation.
• Strong TypeScript programming fundamentals.
• Experience designing maintainable automation—not simply creating test scripts.
• Experience testing modern web applications, preferably Angular.
• Experience testing Java-based REST APIs.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST, JSON, authentication, response validation, and negative API testing.
• SQL experience for backend data validation, preferably with Oracle.
• Experience executing automated tests through Jenkins or another CI/CD platform.
• Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative development workflows.
• Ability to diagnose failures across the UI, API, database, test code, test data, and environment layers.
• Experience with exploratory and manual testing in addition to automation.
• Ability to work independently and communicate defects and quality risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain UI and API automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Expand the existing Playwright framework and establish reusable fixtures, API clients, utilities, and coding standards.
• Create automated coverage for Angular applications and Java-based REST APIs.
• Integrate and execute automated tests through Jenkins.
• Investigate failures using Playwright traces, application logs, network activity, API responses, and SQL.
• Validate application processing and data using Oracle SQL.
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, and risk-based manual testing.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria for gaps, edge cases, risks, and testability.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and testers throughout story development.
• Participate in code reviews and improve the reliability and maintainability of the automation suite.
• Identify flaky, redundant, slow, or low-value tests and address their underlying causes.

Skills

Playwright with TypeScript

API testing

SQL validation

Exploratory/manual testing

CI/CD

Git/Bitbucket

Automation architecture

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Copilot

Bitbucket

Oracle

Playwright

Job description

FastTek Global in Okemos, MI is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design and implement automated UI and API tests using Playwright with TypeScript. You will expand the framework, create reusable fixtures, and validate data with Oracle SQL while collaborating with developers and product owners.

This hands-on role emphasizes quality engineering, AI-assisted testing practices, and continuous integration through Jenkins, Git-based workflows, and robust test architectures to