QA Automation Engineer – Playwright

Job Description: QA Automation Engineer – PlaywrightExperience

8+ years in Software Quality Assurance / Test Automation

Role

Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience in software testing and strong hands-on expertise in Playwright automation. The candidate should have solid knowledge of UI, API, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing, along with experience designing scalable automation frameworks and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks using Playwright.
• Create and execute UI, functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
• Develop automation scripts using TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Automate web applications across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Implement Page Object Model (POM), reusable utilities, fixtures, test data management, and custom reporters.
• Perform API testing and integrate API validation with UI automation.
• Analyze test failures, identify defects, and work closely with developers to resolve issues.
• Participate in requirements analysis, test planning, test case design, execution, and defect management.
• Integrate Playwright automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools.
• Configure parallel execution, retries, test sharding, trace collection, screenshots, videos, and HTML reporting.
• Maintain automation suites and improve test stability, execution time, and coverage.
• Perform cross-browser and responsive testing.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with developers, product owners, and other QA engineers.
• Review automation code and mentor junior QA engineers.
• Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, automation coverage, and overall product quality.

Required Technical Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Software Testing / QA Automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Strong programming experience in TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Excellent knowledge of Playwright locators, assertions, fixtures, hooks, configuration, projects, and test runners.
• Experience with Page Object Model and automation framework design.
• Strong understanding of Selenium/WebDriver concepts is desirable.
• Experience with REST API testing using tools such as Postman, Playwright APIRequest, or similar.
• Good knowledge of SQL and database validation.
• Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of Docker and cloud-based test execution is desirable.
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.

Playwright Skills Expected

• Browser and context management
• Locators and locator strategies
• Auto-waiting and web-first assertions
• Fixtures and hooks
• Page Object Model
• Parameterization and test data handling
• Parallel execution
• Multi-browser testing
• Authentication/session management
• API testing
• Network interception and mocking
• Screenshots, videos, and traces
• Retry and failure handling
• Playwright configuration and projects
• HTML/custom reporting
• CI/CD integration

Good to Have

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Performance testing knowledge.
• Accessibility testing.
• Security testing awareness.
• Experience migrating automation frameworks from Selenium to Playwright.
• Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Experience leading QA automation initiatives.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of software development and testing life cycles.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently design automation solutions.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior QA engineers.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.

Pay: ₹100,000.00 per month

Experience:

• QA Automation Engineer – Playwright: 8 years (Required)

Work Location: On the road