SDET: Playwright & TypeScript Automation Engineer

FastTek Global; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental

Vision

PTO Program

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting and 3%

Job summary

FastTek Global in Okemos, Michigan is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to advance our quality engineering efforts. This hands-on role combines Playwright automation, API testing, SQL validation, exploratory, and targeted manual testing, with an emphasis on writing maintainable TypeScript and contributing to automation architecture.

You will work with Playwright, TypeScript, Jenkins, GitHub Copilot, Bitbucket, and Oracle, expanding the framework, building reusable fixtures,

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

Strong TypeScript fundamentals

Automation design

UI testing

API testing

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Git-based workflows

Diagnostic debugging

Manual testing

Angular testing

REST API testing

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Jenkins

GitHub Copilot

Oracle

Job description

FastTek Global in Okemos, Michigan is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to advance our quality engineering efforts. This hands-on role combines Playwright automation, API testing, SQL validation, exploratory, and targeted manual testing, with an emphasis on writing maintainable TypeScript and contributing to automation architecture.

You will work with Playwright, TypeScript, Jenkins, GitHub Copilot, Bitbucket, and Oracle, expanding the framework, building reusable fixtures,