The role involves designing and maintaining Playwright frameworks for UI and API test automation, optimizing test suites, integrating tests into CI/CD, and mentoring teammates in best practices.
About the role
We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer with strong Playwright experience to design, build, and scale automated UI and API test frameworks. You’ll partner with developers, product, and DevOps to ship high quality releases in a CI/CD environment.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities
What you’ll do
- Design and maintain Playwright frameworks (TypeScript/JavaScript) for UI and API test automation.
- Build reliable, parallelizable test suites; optimize for speed, stability, and flake reduction.
- Integrate tests into CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins) and enable quality gates.
- Create robust test data strategies and environment configs; mock/stub dependencies where needed.
- Define and maintain test strategy, coverage, and traceability against requirements/user stories.
- Collaborate on shift‑left quality: code reviews, PR checks, service contracts, and observability.
- Analyze failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
- Contribute to non‑functional coverage (accessibility, performance sanity) where feasible.
- Mentor teammates in Playwright best practices, patterns, and coding standards.
Qualifications
Must‑have skills
- 4+ years in test automation with at least 2+ years hands‑on in Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
- Strong in modern test design: Page Object Model (or Screenplay), fixtures, custom reporters, test data mgmt.
- Experience with web technologies (DOM, CSS selectors, async waits, network interception).
- CI/CD integration and pipeline scripting (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins).
- API testing (Playwright request context, REST/GraphQL), JSON schemas, contract tests.
- Solid debugging skills across browser/devtools; handling flakiness and parallelization.
- Version control (Git), code reviews, and clean coding practices.
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