Senior SDET (Remote) - Playwright Automation Lead

Apex Trader Funding Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Trader Funding Inc. is seeking a Senior SDET to design and evolve scalable automated testing systems. You will shape our Playwright-based framework, improve CI/CD quality gates, and enable the engineering org to deliver high-quality software rapidly.

You will build reusable test infrastructure, mentor teammates, and drive testing improvements across UI, API, and distributed systems while ensuring traceability and reliable metrics.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in software testing/engineering with senior-level automation experience.
• 3+ years designing Playwright automation frameworks.
• 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

Playwright automation

TypeScript/Node.js

CI/CD

API testing

Test automation

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Lighthouse

k6

Job description

Apex Trader Funding Inc. is seeking a Senior SDET to design and evolve scalable automated testing systems. You will shape our Playwright-based framework, improve CI/CD quality gates, and enable the engineering org to deliver high-quality software rapidly.

You will build reusable test infrastructure, mentor teammates, and drive testing improvements across UI, API, and distributed systems while ensuring traceability and reliable metrics.