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 stable 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 flows across both UI and API layers.
- Perform backend validation using SQL whenever applicable.

4. CI/CD Integration & Reporting

- Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines using:
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Maintain and enhance execution reports using:
- Playwright HTML Reports
- Allure Reports
- Extent Reports
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for automation failures and proactively reduce flaky tests through engineering best practices.

5. Delivery & Governance

- Collaborate with technical leads to support:
- Sprint planning and estimation
- Velocity tracking
- Burn-down management
- Change control for expanding automation scope
- Maintain project documentation, including:
- Automation coverage reports
- Known limitations and gaps
- Execution guides and handover documentation
- Traceability between requirements and automated test cases

Required Skills

Playwright (Mandatory)

- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation.
- Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript (preferred) or Java .
- Expertise in:
- Reliable locator strategies
- Auto-waits
- Assertions




- Responsible use of retries
- Dynamic element handling
- iFrames
- Multiple browser windows/tabs
- File upload/download automation
- Parallel execution

Automation Engineering

- Strong understanding of automation framework design patterns, including:
- Page Object Model (POM)
- Fixtures-based architecture
- Data-driven testing
- Reusable utilities and common libraries
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills using:
- Logs
- Trace Viewer
- Screenshots
- Video recordings

Selenium

- Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver using Java.
- Experience migrating Selenium-based automation to Playwright is preferred.

API Testing

- Hands-on experience with:
- Rest Assured
- Playwright API
- Postman
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and request/response validation.

CI/CD & DevOps

- Experience with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Understanding of:
- Pipeline execution
- Automated test triggers
- Build artifacts
- Test reporting

Version Control

- Proficiency with Git, including:
- Branching strategies
- Pull Requests
- Code reviews

Good to Have

- Appium
- Docker
- Selenium Grid
- Containerized test execution
- SQL for backend validation
- Jira, Zephyr, Xray, or TestRail
- Experience in regulated industries such as Healthcare or FinTech
- Awareness of audit trails and PII/PHI compliance requirements

Process & Delivery Expectations

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Ability to participate in sprint ceremonies and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Strong documentation skills with focus on traceability and maintainability.
- Ability to deliver high-quality automation within project timelines while adhering to engineering best practices.

📌 Test Automation Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Trantor
📍 Bengaluru