Principal QA Automation Engineer Playwright

• Build and maintain a scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript or JavaScript
• Develop functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and API tests
• Create reusable fixtures, page objects, utilities, and test-data solutions
• Improve existing automation to make tests faster, more stable, and easier to maintain
• Run parallel and cross-browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit
• Perform API testing using Playwright’s APIRequestContext
• Work with network mocking, request interception, authentication-state reuse, and test-data setup
• Configure tracing, screenshots, videos, retries, and reporting to help troubleshoot failures
• Identify and reduce flaky tests
• Improve overall test coverage and execution time
• Integrate Playwright tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
• Work closely with developers, product managers, DevOps, and other team members throughout the development lifecycle

Nice to Have

• Docker experience
• Experience with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or LambdaTest
• Familiarity with visual testing, accessibility testing, or mobile-device emulation in Playwright
• Experience with Allure, Playwright HTML reports, or ReportPortal
• Exposure to performance, security, or contract testing

We’re looking for a Hands on principal QA Automation Engineer with strong Playwright experience to help build, improve, and maintain automated testing for web applications and APIs.

This role is a good fit for someone who has worked hands-on with Playwright in real production environments and has experience building automation frameworks from the ground up., * 10+ years of experience in QA automation

• 5+ years of recent, hands-on Playwright experience in production environments
• Strong experience designing and building automation frameworks from scratch
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript skills
• Professional-level English communication
• Finance industry experience is required
• Good understanding of Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, hooks, projects, parallel execution, and worker management
• Experience creating stable tests using reliable locators, role-based selectors, auto-waiting, and Playwright assertions
• Hands-on experience with API testing using Playwright
• Experience with request interception, route handling, network mocking, and authentication
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, SQL, Git, web technologies, and Agile development
• Comfortable working remotely and collaborating with teams during EST/EDT hours