Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in Farmington, Hills, MI. Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain UI and API automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript
• Expand and enhance automation frameworks by creating reusable fixtures, API clients, utilities, and coding standards
• Build automated coverage for modern web applications and REST APIs
• Integrate and execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines
• Investigate failures using test traces, application logs, network activity, API responses, and SQL validation
• Validate application processing and backend data using SQL
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, and risk-based manual testing
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, edge cases, risks, and testability concerns
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and other quality team members throughout the development lifecycle
• Participate in code reviews and improve the reliability and maintainability of the automation suite
• Identify flaky, redundant, slow, or low-value tests and address root causes

AI-Assisted Quality Engineering: SDETs are expected to leverage approved AI capabilities in their daily work to improve speed, coverage, and effectiveness; This includes:

• Generating and refining Playwright TypeScript tests for UI and API scenarios
• Identifying missing scenarios, edge cases, negative paths, and requirement gaps
• Accelerating test-data creation, SQL queries, API requests, and reusable automation components
• Analyzing failures, logs, stack traces, and test execution results
• Refactoring repetitive, flaky, or difficult-to-maintain automation code
• Creating technical documentation, test summaries, and defect details
• Understanding unfamiliar application code and identifying areas of testing risk
• Sharing effective AI-assisted testing practices with other team members
• Hands-on experience using Playwright with TypeScript for UI and API automation
• Strong TypeScript programming fundamentals
• Experience designing maintainable automation frameworks-not simply creating test scripts
• Experience testing modern web applications
• Experience testing REST APIs
• Strong understanding of REST, JSON, authentication, response validation, and negative API testing
• SQL experience for backend data validation
• 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 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