Senior QA Engineer with Playwright - Only W2

Role: Senior QA Engineer with Playwright Remote (USA / Canada) - Candidates can be either in USA or Canada Job Type: W2 Contract Responsibilities

• Verify completed work against acceptance criteria, design intent, and expected behavior, including adjacent regression risk areas.
• Own the staging release process determine readiness, execute releases, and return failed items with clear reproduction details.
• Run, triage, and maintain Playwright, unit, and integration test suites to ensure continuous coverage and reliability.
• Diagnose and repair flaky or outdated tests, identifying gaps, duplicates, and inaccurate test-plan status.
• Document defects in Linear with reproduction steps, severity, environment details, and expected versus actual behavior.
• Provide Product stakeholders with concise release candidate summaries and contribute actively to standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• Strong product judgment with the ability to identify gaps between technically passing implementations and intended outcomes.
• Strong Playwright skills including running, debugging, repairing end-to-end tests, and diagnosing flaky behavior.
• Working knowledge of Next.js, React, TypeScript, browser developer tools, and application logs.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted QA or development tools such as Claude, Claude Code, or equivalent.
• Clear written communication for defect documentation and release candidate summaries.
• Experience owning a staging promotion or release process, ideally with GitHub Actions CI/CD. (Optional)