Senior QA Engineer (Playwright)

About CES

CES is a software product development, quality engineering, and digital transformation consulting company with more than 26 years of experience. We serve SME and enterprise clients around the world, including Fortune 500 companies, across a broad range of industries. Our long-term client relationships reflect a consistent focus on innovation.

The Opportunity

Own quality across an entire platform, from test strategy and framework architecture to AI-assisted testing and performance engineering. If you have built automation frameworks from scratch and want to shape how a team approaches quality, read on.

Role Snapshot

• Title: Senior QA Engineer
• Experience: 7+ years in Automation Testing
• Work Mode: Chennai ( Hybird) / Remote
• Shift: 1 PM to 10 PM
• Key Skills: Playwright, TypeScript, AI-assisted testing, test automation framework design, contract testing, CI/CD quality gates, performance engineering, test strategy

Why This Role

• Real ownership. You will be the single point of ownership for QA across the platform, setting strategy, standards, and release gates.
• Build from scratch. You will design automation frameworks with Playwright and TypeScript and make the architectural decisions.
• Hands-on AI in testing. You will configure AI agents to generate test cases, use AI for coverage analysis and defect triage, and define the guardrails that keep it reliable.
• Influence beyond testing. You will review requirements and architecture, support release decisions, and shape engineering standards and quality culture.

What You'll Do

• Define and maintain the testing strategy, quality standards, and release gates, and drive shift-left practices.
• Build Playwright and TypeScript automation frameworks from scratch, with reporting, parallel execution, and reusable components designed to scale.
• Develop AI-assisted testing workflows. Configure AI agents to generate test cases, use AI for coverage analysis and defect triage, and govern AI-generated artifacts.
• Design contract and integration tests between microservices to protect API schema and backward compatibility across releases.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD with quality gates, automated security checks, and pipeline health and automation metrics.
• Select and implement performance testing tools, define NFRs and SLAs, set baselines, and detect and prevent performance regressions.
• Work with Engineering, Product, and Architecture to review requirements and architecture, raise risks early, and support release and production-readiness decisions.
• Mentor engineers on QA and AI-assisted testing, and drive adoption of modern testing approaches.

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript.
• A track record of building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Practical experience applying AI to testing, with a clear view of the guardrails it needs.
• Experience with contract and integration testing in a microservices environment.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates.
• Performance engineering experience, from tool selection to regression prevention.
• The ability to influence stakeholders, raise risks early, and mentor engineers.

Why CES

• Opportunity to work with advanced tools and technologies.
• Encouragement and support for innovative ideas and execution.
• Global exposure through team collaboration, client portfolio engagement, and professional relationship building.
• Learning and development programs that help employees enhance their skills.
• An enabling and empowering work environment.