Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled Playwright Automation Engineer with 35 years of experience in software testing and test automation. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript, along with strong knowledge of web application testing, API testing, and CI/CD integration.You will work closely with developers, product teams, and QA engineers to improve test coverage, identify defects early, and ensure reliable releases.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright.

- Develop automated test scripts using TypeScript/JavaScript for functional, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing.

- Automate testing of modern web applications across multiple browsers using Playwright.

- Build reusable test components, fixtures, utilities, and page objects.

- Perform API testing and automation using Playwright API capabilities and/or tools such as Postman.

- Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective test scenarios and automation scripts.

- Execute automated test suites, analyze failures, troubleshoot issues, and report defects with clear supporting evidence.

- Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

- Work closely with development teams to identify testability issues and improve overall product quality.

- Maintain test data and support testing across development, QA, staging, and production-like environments.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, defect triage, and release activities.

- Continuously improve automation coverage, execution speed, stability, and maintainability.

Required Skills & Experience

- 3-5 years of experience in software testing, with strong hands-on experience in test automation.





- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation.

- Strong programming skills in TypeScript and/or JavaScript.

- Experience designing or contributing to automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM) or similar patterns.

- Valuable understanding of DOM, HTML, CSS, XPath, and browser-based application testing.

- Experience with API testing, REST APIs, JSON, and HTTP methods/status codes.

- Experience with cross-browser and end-to-end testing.

- Hands-on experience with Git and source-control workflows.

- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

- Strong understanding of testing concepts, including functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing.

- Experience with defect tracking and Agile tools such as Jira or equivalent.

- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, hooks, assertions, tracing, screenshots, videos, and reporting.

- Experience with parallel execution and optimizing automation suites for faster execution.

- Knowledge of database validation and SQL.

- Experience testing applications built using React, Angular, or similar modern web frameworks.

- Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.

- Experience with test reporting solutions such as Allure or equivalent.

- Understanding of accessibility, performance, and security testing concepts is an advantage.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Ability to work independently as well as within cross-functional Agile teams.

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a hands-on automation engineer who can take ownership of Playwright-based test automation, develop reliable and maintainable test suites, troubleshoot complex failures, and contribute to improving the overall quality engineering process.

📌 Playwright Automation Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 ETG Global Services
📍 Hyderabad