Keywords: Playwright, TypeScript, AI-Focused Quality Engineering, UI & API Testing

Location: India preferred

About the Role

Client is looking for a strong, independent test engineer to take full ownership of driving quality engineering across multiple project streams. The primary focus is to rapidly scale test automation coverage across all modules/projects, drive technical QA practices, and design and incorporate AI into testing strategies, solutions, and quality processes to meet ambitious target timelines.

Responsibilities

- Writing, executing, and maintaining automated tests for both UI and REST API.
- Architecting and designing E2E test automation frameworks across multiple projects, including building or significantly redesigning existing frameworks.
- Performing manual test execution and exploratory testing.
- Conducting code and PR reviews for quality engineering deliverables.
- Conducting single-user performance testing and analyzing bottlenecks.
- Incorporating AI-driven practices into testing strategies, solutions, workflows, and quality processes.




- Integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
- Identifying technical risks, raising flags, and proposing actions..

Requirements

- Deep hands-on expertise in both UI and API test automation (Playwright / TS).
- Strong automation architecture and framework design experience from scratch.
- Proven hands-on AI testing experience and practical application of AI into testing strategies (candidates who have simply used AI-assisted coding tools like Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT will be NOT considered).
- Proven experience leading QA automation across multiple projects/modules.
- Solid understanding of single-user performance analysis (browser dev tools, network profiling, identifying execution bottlenecks).
- Solid code review capabilities and strict adherence to coding standard.

Nice to Have

- Experience with mobile application testing and mobile test automation.
- Experience integrating test runs into CI/CD pipelines.

📌 Senior Qa Engineer - (AI + Playwright) (Pune)
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