Software Engineer in Test - Playwright

Blue Bridge People; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Bridge People is seeking an SDET to join a growing quality engineering team. This role builds automated test coverage across data, service, and application layers using Playwright with TypeScript and a core Java framework, supporting a bottom-up testing approach.

You will collaborate across Data and Service layers, perform functional testing focused on Application and Service layers, and work with Postgres. This is a remote, long-term contract opportunity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied, hands-on SDET experience.
• Functional testing experience, with specific focus on Application layer and Service layer testing
• QA certification preferred (e.g., ISTQB or equivalent)
• Data layer testing experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test coverage across the Application, Service, and Data layers as part of a collaborative quality engineering team
• Execute a bottom-up testing strategy — establishing strong foundational coverage at the Data and Service layers to inform and support Application layer testing
• Develop and maintain automation using Playwright with TypeScript alongside a Core Java test automation framework
• Conduct functional testing with a specific focus on Application layer and Service layer testing
• Support Data layer testing and validation, including work with Postgres, where applicable

Skills

SDET experience

Functional testing

QA certification

Tools

Postgres

AWS tooling

Parquet files

Glue

Github

Github Copilot

Job description

SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Quality Engineering Team

We are seeking an SDET to join a growing quality engineering team. The ideal candidate is comfortable working within a bottom-up testing strategy where they are building coverage from the data and service layers up through the application layer. This candidate brings a strong, hands-on background in automated QA.

About the Role:

This SDET will work as part of a collaborative quality engineering team responsible for building and maintaining automated test coverage across the application, service, and data layers. The team follows a bottom-up testing strategy, meaning strong foundational coverage at the data and service layers is expected to support and inform testing further up the stack.

This is a remote, contract position.

No C2C

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test coverage across the Application, Service, and Data layers as part of a collaborative quality engineering team
• Execute a bottom-up testing strategy — establishing strong foundational coverage at the Data and Service layers to inform and support Application layer testing
• Develop and maintain automation using Playwright with TypeScript alongside a Core Java test automation framework
• Conduct functional testing with a specific focus on Application layer and Service layer testing
• Support Data layer testing and validation, including work with Postgres, where applicable

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied, hands-on SDET experience
• Functional testing experience, with specific focus on Application layer and Service layer testing
• QA certification preferred (e.g., ISTQB or equivalent)
• Data layer testing experience preferred but not required

Nice to Have

• Data layer testing experience (Postgres experience preferred)
• AWS tooling: S3, Parquet files, Glue, and similar services
• Github
• Github Copilot

This is a remote, long term contract position