AI-Driven SDET Engineer | TypeScript & Playwright

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

LogicGate is seeking a Software Engineer: Test (SDET) for a hybrid role in Chicago/Remote. You will design and scale automated testing frameworks using TypeScript and Playwright, embed AI-driven tooling, and expand test coverage across backend APIs and systems.

Collaboration across product, development, and DevOps in an Agile environment will be key to delivering reliable releases. The role emphasizes automated test strategy, cross-team mentoring, and data-driven testing approaches, with a focus

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional experience in software test automation, systems validation, or backend engineering within a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Strong programming experience using TypeScript or a comparable scripting language, alongside practical exposure to automated testing frameworks.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code) as part of a normal workflow—writing effective prompts, building reusable skills or custom instructions, and knowing when to trust, verify, or discard AI-generated output.
• Deep command of Fowler's Testing Pyramid and the ability to apply it pragmatically - knowing what belongs at the unit, integration, and end-to-end layers and why.
• Mentoring and coaching: experience coaching or upskilling less-automation-savvy testers or engineers.
• Autonomous Troubleshooting: demonstrated ability to independently debug distributed backend microservices by parsing logs and utilizing core enterprise monitoring platforms like Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks and end-to-end regression suites using TypeScript and Playwright, augmented by AI-driven code generation, to take validation tasks from requirements through continuous deployment.
• Testing Pyramid Validation: write clean automation code to validate backend APIs and integration layers, adhering to the testing pyramid for a stable deployment lifecycle.
• Swarm Testing & Edge Cases: expand team testing efforts, validate edge cases, error conditions, and happy paths while guiding the broader Engineering Department and QA Analysts on automated testability best practices.
• Systematic Debugging: diagnose and isolate test automation failures and platform defects by reading distributed system logs, analyzing API console data, and utilizing AI-powered Datadog monitoring patterns to accelerate root-cause resolution.
• Technical Documentation: author clear technical documentation within the codebase and Confluence, including test strategies, automation runbooks, and defect reports to support knowledge sharing.
• Test Data Infrastructure: work with PostgreSQL and advanced platform data stores, using AI tools to query, manage, and optimize automated test data flows.
• Agile Collaboration: partner with product managers, developers, QA Analysts, and DevOps in Agile sprints, estimating validation effort and mapping task priorities.
• Code Reviews & Quality Culture: participate in peer code reviews for application features and test suites, providing feedback and ensuring quality conventions.
• Testing Standards & Strategy: help define QA expectations and translate direction into practices the framework and QA function can follow.
• QA Analyst Enablement: mentor QA Analysts to build automation skills and shift time from manual regression to automated coverage.

Skills

TypeScript

AI coding aids

Testing Pyramid

Automation

Debug distributed systems

Code reviews

Tools

Datadog

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Neo4j

Redis

Job description

LogicGate is seeking a Software Engineer: Test (SDET) for a hybrid role in Chicago/Remote. You will design and scale automated testing frameworks using TypeScript and Playwright, embed AI-driven tooling, and expand test coverage across backend APIs and systems.

Collaboration across product, development, and DevOps in an Agile environment will be key to delivering reliable releases. The role emphasizes automated test strategy, cross-team mentoring, and data-driven testing approaches, with a focus