Remote Senior SDET: Playwright & CI/CD Automation Leader

Rippling, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Trader Funding is seeking a Senior SDET to blend world-class software engineering with scalable automated testing. You will design and evolve automation frameworks, strengthen developer workflows, and enable the engineering org to deliver high‑quality software rapidly.

You’ll own testing ecosystems and drive improvement across UI, API, and distributed systems. Lead the development of testing infrastructure, mentor peers, and ensure telemetry and dashboards provide actionable insights.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in software testing/engineering with senior-level automation experience.
• Strong engineering background: TypeScript/Node.js, async patterns, SOLID principles.
• Strong API and network-level understanding.
• CI/CD experience with Docker and execution pipelines.
• Strong debugging skills across UI, API, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain Playwright-based automation frameworks using TypeScript/Node.js.
• Develop reusable fixtures, helpers, abstractions, and test infrastructure.
• Implement network mocking/stubbing, service virtualization, API layers, data factories, and contract testing.
• Build selector strategies, concurrency models, and fault‑tolerant automation. Integrate suites into CI/CD with parallelization, retries, flake analysis, and intelligent test selection.
• Own quality-related telemetry: traces, screenshots, logs, metrics.
• Build quality dashboards tracking stability, coverage, and reliability. Influence system design for testability.
• Build component, integration, and contract testing layers.
• Mentor QAEs, STEs, and developers on testing best practices.
• Document patterns, tools, and guidelines. Drive evolution of testing ecosystem.

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

Async patterns

SOLID principles

API knowledge

Distributed systems

Debugging skills

Tools

Docker

Playwright

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Apex Trader Funding is seeking a Senior SDET to blend world-class software engineering with scalable automated testing. You will design and evolve automation frameworks, strengthen developer workflows, and enable the engineering org to deliver high‑quality software rapidly.

You’ll own testing ecosystems and drive improvement across UI, API, and distributed systems. Lead the development of testing infrastructure, mentor peers, and ensure telemetry and dashboards provide actionable insights.