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Company Domain: Fast casual restaurant

Contract Length: 6 months, potential to convert or extend

Description

Join the Services Engineering team as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), where you’ll design and maintain scalable automation for backend services and APIs. You’ll validate REST and GraphQL endpoints, enforce contract integrity, and ensure reliable service integrations using modern tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Summary:

We’re seeking a Services/API SDET to design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable test automation for our backend services and APIs. You will leverage Playwright’s API testing capabilities and Postman (including Newman in CI) to validate REST/GraphQL endpoints, contracts, and integrations. Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset are essential. This is a platform team supporting different services integrations, so must have a solid understanding of coding standards, software engineering principles, best practices, and shift-left testing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain API test automation using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) and Postman collections.

- Build reusable testing libraries/utilities for authentication (OAuth2/JWT), pagination, idempotency, rate limiting, and error handling.

- Define API test strategy and coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end service tests; prioritize critical paths.

- Validate API contracts against OpenAPI/Swagger; enforce schema and backwards compatibility checks in CI.

- Create robust negative, edge, and resilience tests (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers); use mocking/service virtualization where needed.

- Manage test data and environments (seeding, fixtures, synthetic data); keep tests deterministic and fast.

- Integrate tests into CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure Devops): parallel runs, environment provisioning,

- Participate in design and code reviews, advocate for testability, and document frameworks, patterns, and runbooks.

- Communicate clearly with cross-functional teams and be an effective, dependable team player.

Skills

API, cicd, automation, test automation, quality assurance, automation testing

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Qualifications:

- 3–6+ years in SDET/QA Automation roles focused on services/APIs.

- Hands-on experience with Playwright for API testing (APIRequestContext, fixtures, parallelization) using TypeScript/JavaScript or any similar tools/frameworks.

- Recommended understanding with Postman (collections, environments, scripts) and Newman for CI execution and reporting.

- Strong understanding of HTTP/REST fundamentals (status codes, headers, caching), JSON, and API design; experience with GraphQL preferred.

- Experience validating contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), schema assertions, and compatibility checks.

- CI/CD experience: configuring pipelines, test reporting, and gating on failures/coverage.

- Familiarity with mocking/service virtualization and test data management.

- Solid debugging skills across logs, traces, and network traffic; comfort with curl and CLI tooling.

- Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative, team-first approach.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $75.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Newport Beach,CA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 4, 2025.

h4>About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.