Apex Trader Funding is a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in futures trading. As a fully remote company, we empower employees through innovation, transparency, accountability, and continuous growth. Our mission is to create opportunity by combining cutting-edge technology with a culture grounded in integrity, collaboration, operational excellence, and long-term success. We believe great results come from diverse perspectives, clear expectations, and trust. At Apex, we encourage individuals to take ownership of their work while participating in a highly skilled, supportive, and results-driven team. Our values, integrity, collaboration, operational excellence, continuous growth, and attention to detail, guide how we work, make decisions, and deliver results.
GENERALSUMMARY We’re looking for a Senior SDET who blends world-class software engineering skills with a passion for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable automated testing systems. In this role, you will design and evolve our automation frameworks, strengthen developer workflows, enhance CI/CD quality gates, and enable the engineering org to deliver high-quality software at speed. You’ll engineer the systems that make quality measurable, repeatable, and automated - not just test the product, but shape how the entire organization tests.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES
- Architect, build, and maintain Playwright-based automation frameworks usingTypeScript/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 intelligenttest 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.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- 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.
DESIRABLE
- Contract testing (Pact), schema validation, or service virtualization.
- Experience with observability systems (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
- Performance testing (Lighthouse, Playwright Tracing, k6).
- Visual regression tools.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).