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SDET, DevOps, Backend Developer

Job in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, 02917, USA
Listing for: Randstad Digital
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-30
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    DevOps, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Testing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 69 - 70 USD Hourly USD 69.00 70.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
job summary:

Improving automated suite stability through better patterns, observability, and test governance.

Reducing false positives and improving signal-to-noise across CI test runs.

Enhancing visibility in test coverage, execution results, and pipeline health.

Establishing and evangelizing best practices across backend and frontend test frameworks.

Ensuring automation serves as an enabler of faster, safer releases.

Tools & Technologies Used on the Team

Karate for API, microservice, and Kafka workflow testing

Cypress for Angular UI testing

Java, Type Script/Java Script

Kafka, RESTful APIs, microservices

CI/CD orchestrated by a dedicated Dev Ops partner

Cloud-native architecture (AWS), distributed systems

location:
Smithfield, Rhode Island

job type:
Contract

salary: $69 - 70 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education:
Bachelors

responsibilities:
  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience with automated testing for modern applications.
  • Strong experience with API and UI automation frameworks.
  • Proven SQL skills - confident writing joins, filters, aggregations, and using SQL to inspect, validate, and prepare test data.
  • Experience with test data strategies: mocking, seeding, synthetic data creation, and validating backend state through SQL queries.
  • Moderate Java proficiency - enough to work within and extend our Karate-based test framework and shared utilities.
  • Working knowledge of JavaScript/Type Script sufficient for Cypress-based test authoring and maintenance.
  • Proven understanding of testing strategies for REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems (Kafka experience a plus).
  • Experience collaborating in Agile environments and partnering with developers and Dev Ops engineers.
  • No financial/quantitative domain knowledge required - you'll partner with the product team to define test scope.
qualifications:

Ability to diagnose failures across distributed systems and trace issues across logs, services, and test layers.

Strong debugging skills and comfortability with reading application code when tests fail.

Familiarity with observability tools (logging, dashboards, alerts) to monitor test stability.

Experience improving test suites for reliability, maintainability, and execution time.

A mindset focused on quality as a shared responsibility across the squad.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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