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# Principal QA Automation Engineer Playwright

- **Company:** The Information Technology
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $41,600.0 - $104,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Code Coverage, Data Systems, DevOps, Firefox, Github, Mockito, Screenshots, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Web Applications, WebKit, Browserstack, Test Runner, Git, Gitlab-ci, Playwright, Browser Testing, Web Technologies, Restful APIs, Api Management, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c68c276b7a888251

## About the Role

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

## Description

* 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


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