: QA Automation Engineer – PlaywrightExperience

8+ years in Software Quality Assurance / Test Automation

Role

Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience in software testing and solid hands-on expertise in Playwright automation. The candidate should have solid knowledge of UI, API, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing, along with experience designing scalable automation frameworks and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks using Playwright.
- Create and execute UI, functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
- Develop automation scripts using TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Automate web applications across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
- Implement Page Object Model (POM), reusable utilities, fixtures, test data management, and custom reporters.
- Perform API testing and integrate API validation with UI automation.
- Analyze test failures, identify defects, and work closely with developers to resolve issues.
- Participate in requirements analysis, test planning, test case design, execution, and defect management.
- Integrate Playwright automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools.
- Configure parallel execution, retries, test sharding, trace collection, screenshots, videos, and HTML reporting.
- Maintain automation suites and improve test stability, execution time, and coverage.
- Perform cross-browser and responsive testing.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with developers, product owners, and other QA engineers.
- Review automation code and mentor junior QA engineers.
- Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, automation coverage, and overall product quality.

Required Technical Skills
- 8+ years of experience in Software Testing / QA Automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
- Strong programming experience in TypeScript or JavaScript.




- Excellent knowledge of Playwright locators, assertions, fixtures, hooks, configuration, projects, and test runners.
- Experience with Page Object Model and automation framework design.
- Strong understanding of Selenium/WebDriver concepts is desirable.
- Experience with REST API testing using tools such as Postman, Playwright APIRequest, or similar.
- Good knowledge of SQL and database validation.
- Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Understanding of Docker and cloud-based test execution is desirable.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.

Playwright Skills Expected
- Browser and context management
- Locators and locator strategies
- Auto-waiting and web-first assertions
- Fixtures and hooks
- Page Object Model
- Parameterization and test data handling
- Parallel execution
- Multi-browser testing
- Authentication/session management
- API testing
- Network interception and mocking
- Screenshots, videos, and traces
- Retry and failure handling
- Playwright configuration and projects
- HTML/custom reporting
- CI/CD integration

Good to Have
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Performance testing knowledge.
- Accessibility testing.
- Security testing awareness.
- Experience migrating automation frameworks from Selenium to Playwright.
- Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
- Experience leading QA automation initiatives.

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Key Competencies

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Positive understanding of software development and testing life cycles.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to independently design automation solutions.
- Ability to mentor and guide junior QA engineers.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.

Pay: ₹100,000.00 per month

Experience

- QA Automation Engineer – Playwright: 8 years (Required)

Work Location: On the road

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