Job description
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 inintegrity, collaboration, operational excellence, and long-term success.
We believe great results come from diverse perspectives, clear expectations, and trust. At Apex,we encourage individualsto 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).
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.