Senior Quality Engineer-Playwright

What you'll do:

• Playwright automation: Design, build, and maintain a robust Playwright framework for web apps, including parallelization, test sharding, and cross-browser coverage.
• Shift quality left: Embed testing in the SDLC; coach engineers on testability and quality patterns.
• Increase coverage & speed: Prioritize high-value test cases and drive meaningful coverage.
• API & integration testing: Build reliable API tests (REST).
• CI/CD integration: Run tests in pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps), enable fast feedback with artifacts, traces, and flaky-test quarantine.
• Observability for tests: Leverage Playwright’s traces, videos, and screenshots; integrate with logging/monitoring to speed up root cause analysis.
• Non-functional quality: Partner to introduce basic performance and security checks into pipelines.
• Quality leadership: Define quality strategy, standards, and KPIs; mentor SDETs/QEs; influence architecture for reliability.

What you'll bring:

• 7–10+ years in QA/SDET roles, with 3+ years hands-on in Playwright building frameworks and large test suites.
• Strong in TypeScript/JavaScript (or Python) and modern testing patterns (Page Object Model / Screenplay, fixtures, custom reporters).
• Deep knowledge of Playwright features: test runner, traces, network interception/mocking, retries, testStep, fixtures, auto-waits, web-first assertions.
• Experience with API testing, schema/contract validation, and service-level tests.
• Solid CI/CD experience (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps) and containerization (Docker).
• Practical experience with test data mgmt, synthetic data, and environment setup (including ephemeral envs).
• Familiarity with accessibility testing (axe), basic performance checks (Lighthouse, Web Vitals), and security basics (OWASP top 10 awareness).
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and mentoring skills.