Job Description
Seeking a Senior SDET – Integration & Platform for a client engagement in Washington, DC. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain comprehensive test strategies for a complex, workflow-driven distributed microservices platform supporting enterprise workforce management. You will serve as a senior technical leader ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance by building robust automation frameworks for UI, API, and message-based architectures (Kafka), while mentoring team members, establishing quality gates, and embedding automated suites directly into CI/CD pipelines. This position is remote, with mandatory travel provided for quarterly PI planning sessions, and potential on-site requirements in Washington, DC, Wilmington, or Philadelphia as project needs evolve.
Job Responsibilities
Automation Frameworks: Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for UI and API testing using Playwright, Selenium, REST-assured, Karate, Java, and TypeScript.
Integration & Microservices Validation: Validate distributed microservices, state-heavy systems, REST APIs (functional, performance, security, authn/authz), and event-driven message architectures (Kafka).
Resiliency & Data Integrity: Execute database validations (SQL) to ensure data referential consistency, verify state transitions, and build tests for resiliency scenarios such as retries, failure handling, and idempotency.
CI/CD & Operational Insights: Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket) and leverage monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ELK) to analyze logs and system behavior under peak load.
Quality Leadership: Partner with developers, product owners, and architects to set quality gates, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence across modern and legacy mainframe/batch integrations.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC (Remote) |
| Job Type | Contractor |
| Salary | $45–$48 Per Hour |
Qualifications
Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree (or 7+ years of equivalent experience) plus 5+ years of hands-on experience in manual and automated testing of complex enterprise systems.
Core Technical Skills: Proven proficiency in Java and TypeScript for automation scripting, with strong experience in UI, API, and microservices testing.
Data & Delivery: Strong SQL skills for relational and NoSQL database validation, paired with solid experience working in Agile/DevOps environments.
About Company
Trispark Inc. is a Texas-based IT, Engineering, Healthcare Staffing and Emerging Technology Solutions company helping organizations build high-performing technology teams and accelerate digital transformation.
Our Core Capabilities • IT Staffing: Contract, Contract-to-Hire, Direct Hire & SOW • Software Development & Engineering • Cloud & DevOps • Data Engineering & Analytics • AI/ML, Generative AI & Agentic AI • RPA & Intelligent Automation • Enterprise Applications & IT Consulting • Cybersecurity & Technology Infrastructure • Cross-Border Technology Workforce Solutions
This is a 12+ months extandable contract opportunity with one of our fortune 500 Clients.
Skills
- Automation testing
- Java
- TYPESCRIPT
- Apache Kafka
- Apache JMeter
Skills
- Apache Kafkaunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Home Automationunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Software Design for Test (SDET)unmatched
- Systems Reliabilityunmatched
- Systems Scalabilityunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Test Strategyunmatched
- User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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