Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in JavaScript and Playwright to design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end (E2E) automation solutions for modern web applications.

The ideal candidate should have 6–10+ years of overall IT/software testing experience, including at least 1–3 years of dedicated hands-on experience with Playwright using JavaScript. The role requires a combination of hands-on automation development, framework ownership, technical leadership, quality engineering best practices, and collaboration with development and product teams

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust E2E automation frameworks using Playwright and JavaScript.Define the overall automation approach, framework architecture, coding standards, and reusable automation components.Build scalable test suites for functional, regression, integration, smoke, and cross-browser testing.Implement automation design patterns such as Page Object Model (POM), fixtures, reusable utilities, and data-driven testing.Develop and execute API automation and backend validation where required.Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.Optimize test execution through parallelization, effective test-data management, and improved framework performance.Perform failure analysis, debugging, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for complex application issues.Work closely with developers, architects, product owners, and business analysts to establish comprehensive test coverage.Review automation code and ensure adherence to coding, security, maintainability, and quality standards.Identify automation opportunities and continuously improve automation coverage, execution efficiency, reliability,



and maintainability.Mentor junior QA and automation engineers and provide technical guidance on automation practices.Define and monitor quality engineering metrics and provide clear reporting on testing progress, risks, defects, and release readiness.Participate in Agile ceremonies, estimation, sprint planning, release planning, and quality governance activities.

Skill Requirements

6–10+ years of total IT/software testing and Quality Engineering experience.Minimum 1–3 years of strong hands-on Playwright automation experience with JavaScript.Strong programming and scripting skills in JavaScript.Strong experience designing and maintaining E2E automation frameworks.Strong knowledge of Playwright capabilities including:

- Locators and assertions
- Fixtures
- Browser contexts
- Hooks
- Parallel execution
- Test configuration
- Reporting
- Trace/debug capabilities
- Cross-browser execution

Good understanding of Page Object Model and reusable automation design patterns.Strong experience in functional, regression, integration, and cross-browser testing.Experience with REST API testing and API automation.Experience integrating automation suites with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent CI/CD platforms.Strong working knowledge of Git/version control.Good understanding of Agile/Scrum and up-to-date software development practices.Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Must Have Skill

Playwright,CI/CD,JavaScript

Good to Have Skill

Other Requirements

xperience with TypeScript and Node.js.API automation using Playwright, Postman/Newman, or similar technologies.SQL and database validation experience.Exposure to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.Experience with Docker/containerized test execution.Knowledge of accessibility and performance testing.Experience with test reporting solutions such as Allure.Exposure to AI/GenAI-assisted test automation, test-case generation, or intelligent defect analysis.

📌 Senior Test Specialist (Chennai)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Chennai