Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Require ADP I or II clearance. 4 days a week onsite. Locations: Okemos or Farmington Hills, MI.

Key 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.

AI‑Assisted Quality Engineering

• Generate and refine Playwright TypeScript tests for UI and API scenarios using GitHub Copilot and other approved AI tools.
• Identify missing scenarios, edge cases, negative paths, and requirement gaps.
• Accelerate test data creation, SQL queries, API requests, and reusable automation components.
• Analyze failures, logs, stack traces, and Playwright traces.
• Refactor repetitive, flaky, or difficult‑to‑maintain automation code.
• Create technical documentation, test summaries, and defect details.
• Understand unfamiliar application code and identify areas of testing risk.
• Share effective AI‑assisted testing practices with other team members.
• Accountability: SDETs must independently review all AI‑generated output for correctness, security, maintainability, test value, and alignment with established standards; AI‑generated code must not be accepted solely because it compiles or passes once.

Required Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience using Playwright with TypeScript for UI and API automation.
• Strong TypeScript programming fundamentals.
• Experience designing maintainable automation—not merely 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.