QA Automation Engineer – Playwright

Role Summary

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Playwright automation frameworks and TypeScript or JavaScript scripts.
• Create UI, functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
• Automate web applications across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Implement Page Object Model, reusable utilities, fixtures, test data management, and custom reporters.
• Perform API testing and integrate API validation with UI automation.
• Analyze failures, identify defects, and collaborate with developers on resolution.

Automation Operations

• Participate in requirements analysis, test planning, test case design, execution, and defect management.
• Integrate Playwright with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools.
• Configure parallel execution, retries, sharding, traces, screenshots, videos, and HTML reporting.
• Improve automation stability, execution time, test coverage, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive testing.

Collaboration and Improvement

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA engineers.
• Review automation code and mentor junior QA engineers.
• Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, automation coverage, and product quality.

Required Technical Skills

• 8+ years of software testing or QA automation experience and strong hands-on Playwright experience.
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript programming experience.
• Knowledge of Playwright locators, assertions, fixtures, hooks, configuration, projects, and test runners.
• Experience with Page Object Model, automation framework design, REST API testing, SQL, database validation, Git, and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and independent solution design abilities.

Playwright Capabilities

• Expected capabilities include browser and context management, locators, auto-waiting, web-first assertions, fixtures, hooks, and Page Object Model.
• The role uses parameterization, test data handling, parallel execution, multi-browser testing, authentication, API testing, network interception, and mocking.
• Additional capabilities include screenshots, videos, traces, retry handling, configuration, projects, and HTML or custom reporting.

Preferred and Additional Skills

• Selenium/WebDriver concepts are desirable.
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, performance testing, accessibility testing, security testing, Selenium-to-Playwright migration, Cucumber, and QA automation leadership are beneficial.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Compensation

• Pay is listed as ₹100,000 per month.

Work Location

• The source lists the work location as on the road.