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Randstad Digital
Smithfield, RI Contractor
POSTED ON 7/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/21/2026
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, TypeScript/JavaScript


Kafka, RESTful APIs, microservices


CI/CD orchestrated by a dedicated DevOps 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/TypeScript 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 DevOps 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.


Salary : $69

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