QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright automation to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and maintainable automated test solutions. The ideal candidate should have a solid foundation in automation engineering, experience migrating manual test cases to automation, and the ability to integrate automated testing into modern CI/CD pipelines.

Project Objectives
Analyze and automate legacy/manual test suites using Playwright.
Ensure secure and reliable execution of automated tests within CI/CD pipelines.
Improve regression testing efficiency through Playwright's parallel execution capabilities.
Maintain high-quality automation frameworks and comprehensive test reporting.

Key Responsibilities
1. Manual to Automation Migration
Analyze and understand existing manual test cases, including test steps, test data, expected results, and dependencies.
Identify gaps, ambiguities, and missing scenarios in legacy test suites.




Convert prioritized manual test cases into robust Playwright automation scripts following established coding standards.
Rationalize existing test cases by eliminating duplicates, improving clarity, and identifying critical regression coverage.

2. Playwright Automation Development
Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript
Implement reliable locator strategies using:
data-testid
Role-based selectors
Stable DOM locators
Utilize Playwright features such as:
Auto-waiting
Assertions
Trace Viewer
Screenshots and video recording
Parallel execution
Test tagging and sharding
Network interception
Handle complex UI scenarios including dynamic elements, iFrames, multiple browser tabs/windows, and file uploads/downloads.

3. API Testing & Data Validation
Develop and maintain API automation using:
Playwright API Request Context
Rest Assured (Java)
Perform API validation using Postman where required.
Validate end-to-end business

📌 Test Automation Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Trantor
📍 Bengaluru