PactFi
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
3w ago
130000 –139000 USD / yearUSASeniorRemoteplaywrightautomationci/cddevopsapi testingui testingdistributed systems
Senior SDET role focused on scaling test automation for a fintech platform using Playwright and AI-assisted practices.
Conditions
- Competitive salary + equity.
- Healthcare coverage.
- 401k
Other
- Private asset markets (PE, Private Credit, VC, Real Estate) have 10x to 9.8T in AUM over the past decade and are projected to grow to $17T in the next five years. However, digital infrastructure has not kept pace, with most of the market operating predominantly in error-prone, internal-only software solutions.
- PactFi provides secure, end-to-end, operational infrastructure for managing complex private credit transactions. Our web-based application brings together all parties involved in such a transaction to more efficiently allocate capital, complete KYC, share documents, manage funds flow, and more. The platform is secured to a bank-grade standard, and we have received our SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.
- PactFi was developed in close partnership with two of the industry's largest players, both of whom represent the top 3 players in the private credit space by both size (AUM) and deal activity.
- We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help scale end-to-end test automation for a modern fintech platform.
- This role is both hands-on and strategic, requiring expertise in:
- Playwright-based automation engineering
- Distributed system validation (API, UI, data layers)
- AI-assisted testing and automation practices
- Responsible for transforming test automation into an AI-augmented quality system to enable:
- Faster, reliable releases with solid understanding of CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
- Strong regression signal with minimal noise
- Scalable and maintainable test coverage across critical business workflows
- Automation Strategy & Leadership
- Own design and evolution of automation testing framework (primarily Playwright)
- Establish best practices for E2E, integration, and regression testing
- Drive test coverage across critical financial workflows (deal lifecycle, cash flows, reporting, etc.)
- Mentor engineers and QA contributors; set test quality and maintainability standards
- Hands-On Engineering
- Build and maintain robust Playwright test suites (TypeScript/JavaScript)
- Develop reusable testing utilities, fixtures, and CI/CD integrations
- Implement parallelization, test isolation, and flakiness mitigation strategies
- Integrate tests into CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Product & Domain Alignment
- Translate complex financial workflows (e.g., loan servicing, covenant tracking, capital calls) into deterministic test cases
- Validate data integrity across systems (APIs, databases, reporting layers)
- Collaborate with product and domain experts to identify edge cases and risk scenarios
- Quality & Reliability
- Define SLAs for test reliability and pipeline performance
- Monitor and improve test signal vs. noise
- Introduce observability into testing (logs, traces, artifacts)
- Lead incident retrospectives related to quality gaps
- AI-Driven Testing & Development
- Implement and scale AI-assisted test case generation from product requirements, user stories, and production data
- Leverage LLM-based tools to generate, refactor, and maintain Playwright test suites
- Build workflows for automated test creation, prioritization, and gap detection using AI
- Evaluate and integrate tools for self-healing tests, intelligent selectors, and failure triaging
- Partner with engineering to incorporate AI into broader development workflows (code generation, debugging, QA automation)
- Establish guardrails and validation strategies to ensure correctness and determinism in AI-generated tests
- Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in QA automation, SDET, or software engineering roles
- Deep expertise with Playwright (2+ years required) in production environments
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript
- Experience designing scalable test frameworks from scratch
- Solid understanding of CI/CD systems and modern DevOps practices
- Experience testing API-driven architecture and distributed systems
- Domain Expertise
- Previous experience in fintech, capital markets, or lending platforms.
- Familiarity with:
- Loan lifecycle and servicing
- Private credit structures
- Cash flow modeling and waterfall structures
- Financial reporting and reconciliations
- Nice-to-Have
- Experience with data validation pipelines (SQL, dbt, etc.)
- Exposure to backend languages (Python, Java, or Go)
- Experience with performance or load testing tools
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
- What Success Looks Like
- High-confidence releases with minimal regression risk
- Stable, fast CI pipelines with meaningful test coverage