Test Automation Engineer - Playwright
Job Overview
Role Overview:
We are seeking a skilled Test Automation Engineer with Playwright experience to drive quality assurance across agile projects. You will be responsible for reviewing requirements, designing test strategies, automating test cases, and ensuring robust test coverage throughout the software development lifecycle. This role demands strong collaboration, attention to detail, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Role and Responsibilities:
Embracing Agile principles and practicing Scrum, you will take responsibility for delivery of assigned projects from inception through to delivery, by providing:
Review requirements (functional and non-functional) and design specifications, which may include interacting with subject matter experts to understand requirements, processes, and metrics, to ensure appropriate test coverage. Highlight any issues discovered during the review process
Identify and communicate test plan / cases to automate based on automation framework and approach
Create and execute test scenarios and test cases, maintaining requirements traceability
Conduct formal test case review sessions and incorporate feedback
Identify test data requirements. Communicate test data requirements early; working with team to ensure test data will be available prior to test phase commencement.
Execute testing according to the guidelines detailed in test strategy and test plan
Evaluate deviations from expected results to determine risk, impact, and priority of defects
Concisely document defects, ensuring the test steps are repeatable for replication of defects.
Identify and track issues, risks, and action items
Participate in daily stand-ups, escalating issues as appropriate
Work with vendors, global team, and local team to address any defects
Produce test result metrics and reporting to track test progress and quality effectiveness
Strong time management, prioritization, and organizations skills
Identify potential process improvements
Skills and Experience:
As a Test Automation Engineer, you will have:
Experience in writing automated test code following best approaches and practices (i.e. POM, DRY, KISS),
Experience in maintaining the code and managing code changes
Experience with Playwright, Playwright Ecosystem, and JavaScript\TypeScript
Experience with Test Management software
Defect management tools (i.e. JIRA)
Understanding of current technologies, Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Agile/Scrum Development methodologies
Testing RESTful APIs (using Postman or other)