Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

As a Junior SDET at OrderMesh Inc, you'll join our automation-first quality team and help build test coverage across a complex microservices platform (Kafka, MongoDB, REST APIs, async workflows). This is a great entry point into modern quality engineering: you'll work alongside senior SDETs and developers to write and maintain automated tests, learn how quality gates fit into CI/CD, and grow your skills in test automation, observability, and distributed systems testing. This role is about learning and contributing hands-on not about owning strategy solo with plenty of mentorship and room to grow.

What You'll Do
- Write and maintain automated tests for APIs, UI, and service-level validation using TypeScript, Node.js, and Playwright, under the guidance of senior team members.
- Support the build-out of load and resilience testing suites with Grafana k6, learning how to benchmark and stress-test distributed systems.
- Help integrate test execution into GitHub Actions pipelines, ensuring your tests run cleanly on commits, PRs, and deployments.
- Get hands-on exposure to distributed-systems testing: Kafka event flows, service mocking with Microcks, and validating contracts between services.
- Help maintain test observability dashboards in Grafana and learn to read quality metrics alongside logs and performance data.
- Perform exploratory testing to complement automated coverage and catch edge cases.
- Collaborate with developers, SREs, and product managers, and actively ask questions to build your understanding of the platform.