SDET - Playwright

Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable test automation for a ServiceNow Platform. The selected candidate will leverage Playwright's capabilities to build a comprehensive test suite. This role requires strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset.

• Design, implement, and test automation using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
• Build reusable testing libraries and utilities for authentication (OAuth2/JWT), pagination, idempotency, rate limiting, and error handling.
• Define test strategy and coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end service tests, prioritizing critical paths.
• Create robust negative, edge, and resilience tests, using mocking where needed.
• Manage test data and environments, including seeding, fixtures, and synthetic data, to keep tests deterministic and fast.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) for parallel runs and environment provisioning.
• Participate in design and code reviews, advocate for testability, and document frameworks, patterns, and runbooks.
• Communicate with cross-functional teams and be a dependable team player.

• 3 6+ years in SDET/QA Automation roles focused on the Playwright tool.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright using TypeScript/JavaScript or similar tools/frameworks.
• CI/CD experience, including configuring pipelines, test reporting, and gating on failures/coverage.
• Familiarity with mocking and test data management.
• Solid debugging skills across logs, traces, and network traffic; comfort with curl and CLI tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• An understanding of ServiceNow is preferable.