We are looking for an experienced Automation QA Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Playwright to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications. The candidate should have experience in test automation frameworks, functional testing, regression testing, API testing, and CI/CD integration.

The ideal candidate should be proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, Playwright, and automation framework development, with the ability to work closely with developers, QA teams, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright.
- Build and enhance scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks.
- Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Automate web application testing across different browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit.
- Develop test scripts using JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Identify test scenarios, prepare test cases, and execute automation test suites.
- Validate UI functionality, user workflows, page navigation, forms, and application behavior.
- Perform API testing and validate backend responses.
- Integrate automated test scripts with CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute automated test suites using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Analyze test execution reports, identify failures, and troubleshoot automation issues.
- Collaborate with developers to identify, report, and resolve defects.
- Maintain test scripts and automation frameworks as application features evolve.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Prepare test execution reports, defect reports, and automation coverage metrics.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Skill

Requirement

Playwright

Strong hands-on experience in test automation

JavaScript / TypeScript

Writing and maintaining automation scripts

Automation Framework

Framework development and maintenance

Selenium

Exposure or experience preferred

API Testing

REST API testing and validation

Testing

Functional, Regression, Smoke, and E2E

CI/CD

Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions

Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket

Test Management

Jira, Azure Test Plans, or similar

Database

SQL queries and backend validation

Agile

Scrum methodology and sprint-based delivery

Detailed Technical Requirements

1. Playwright Automation





- Hands-on experience with Playwright automation.
- Knowledge of Playwright locators, selectors, assertions, and browser automation.
- Experience automating complex user workflows.
- Handling dynamic elements, dropdowns, frames, pop-ups, and multiple tabs.
- Experience with waits, timeouts, retries, and synchronization.
- Knowledge of Page Object Model (POM).
- Experience with reusable functions and test utilities.
- Handling screenshots, videos, and traces for failed test cases.
- Experience executing tests in parallel.
- Browser context management and session handling.

2. Programming Skills

- Strong knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Understanding of asynchronous programming, promises, and async/await.
- Experience writing reusable and modular code.
- Exception handling and debugging.
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot automation script failures.

3. Automation Framework

- Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch or enhancing existing frameworks.
- Knowledge of Page Object Model (POM).
- Data-driven testing.
- Test fixtures and hooks.
- Reusable test components.
- Configuration management for different environments.
- Test execution and reporting.
- Framework maintenance and optimization.

4. API Testing

- Experience testing REST APIs.
- API request and response validation.
- HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE.
- Status code validation.
- JSON response validation.
- Authentication and authorization testing.
- Experience using Playwright API testing or Postman.

5. CI/CD and DevOps

- Integrate Playwright automation with CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute automation scripts during build and deployment.
- Configure automated test execution.
- Analyze pipeline failures.
- Generate and publish test reports.
- Experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.

6. Database Testing

- Basic to intermediate SQL knowledge.
- Writing SELECT queries.
- Data validation and reconciliation.
- Backend database validation.




- Verify application data against database records.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Selenium WebDriver.
- Knowledge of BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
- Experience with Docker.
- Cloud testing exposure on AWS or Azure.
- Experience with cross-browser testing.
- Knowledge of performance testing tools.
- Experience with accessibility testing.
- Knowledge of test reporting tools such as Allure or HTML reports.

Educational Qualification

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Relevant experience in software testing and automation.

Experience Required

- 58 years of overall QA experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation.
- Experience in automation framework development.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.

Candidate Screening Criteria

Screening Area

What to Check

Playwright

Hands-on automation scripts and real project experience

JavaScript / TypeScript

Coding and debugging capability

Framework

POM, reusable components, fixtures

API Testing

REST API automation and validation

CI/CD

Pipeline integration and execution

Testing

Functional, regression, and E2E testing

SQL

Basic backend data validation

Communication

Coordination with developers and QA teams

Naukri Boolean Search

Search 1 – Playwright Mandatory

("Playwright" OR "Playwright Automation")
AND (JavaScript OR TypeScript)
AND ("Automation Testing" OR "QA Automation")
AND (Framework OR POM)

Search 2 – Playwright + API + CI/CD

Playwright AND (JavaScript OR TypeScript)
AND (API OR REST OR Postman)
AND (Jenkins OR "Azure DevOps" OR "GitHub Actions")

Search 3 – Playwright + Selenium

Playwright AND Selenium
AND ("Automation Engineer" OR "QA Engineer")
AND (JavaScript OR TypeScript)

Ideal Candidate Profile

A candidate with 5–8 years of QA experience, strong Playwright automation expertise, JavaScript/TypeScript programming skills, automation framework development experience, API testing knowledge, and hands-on CI/CD integration.

Significant for screening: Prioritize candidates who have actually developed and maintained Playwright scripts in a project. Candidates with only manual testing experience or Selenium experience without Playwright hands-on experience should not be shortlisted for a Playwright-mandatory requirement.

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