Applause is raising the bar for digital quality and employee experience. Recognized as a Top Workplace, Applause provides award-winning software testing, AI training, and UX research solutions to top brands. Our fully managed services leverage a global team and the world's largest independent testing community. We improve digital experiences for global innovators like Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Vodafone, and BMW.

We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking AI-Enabled Playwright Test Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain robust end-to-end test automation frameworks using Microsoft Playwright, while leveraging AI-powered tools including Anthropic's Claude to accelerate test creation, improve coverage analysis, and drive intelligent defect detection. You will sit at the intersection of traditional software quality engineering and up-to-date AI-assisted development, helping the team ship faster with greater confidence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Playwright Test Automation
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable end-to-end, component,



and API test suites using Microsoft Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
- Implement the Page Object Model (POM) and other maintainability patterns to ensure test suite longevity.
- Write cross-browser test scenarios targeting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with full parallel execution.
- Integrate Playwright test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
- Analyze and triage test failures, distinguishing flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive remediation.
- Develop performance and accessibility checks alongside functional test scenarios.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies, contributing QA estimates, risk assessments, and shift-left testing strategies

AI-Assisted Quality Engineering
- Use AI (via the Anthropic API, Claude.ai, or similar) to generate, refactor, and review Playwright test code from plain-language requirements or user stories.
- Leverage

📌 Software Development Engineer in Test (India)
🏢 Applause
📍 India