Senior QA Automation Engineer – Playwright

## Senior QA Automation Engineer – Playwright We are seeking an experienced **QA Automation Engineer** with deep, hands-on expertise in **Playwright** to build and maintain automated testing solutions for web applications and APIs. **Location:** Remote **Work Hours:** Must be available during EST/EDT business hours **Employment Type:** Contract ### Key Responsibilities * Design, develop, and maintain a scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript or JavaScript. * Create automated functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and API tests. * Develop reusable fixtures, page objects, utilities, and test-data solutions. * Use Playwright locators, auto-waiting, assertions, projects, and test configuration to create reliable tests. * Execute parallel and cross-browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. * Perform API testing using Playwright’s `APIRequestContext`. * Implement network mocking, request interception, authentication-state reuse, and test-data setup. * Configure Playwright tracing, screenshots, videos, retries, and HTML reporting for troubleshooting. * Reduce flaky tests and improve automation stability, execution speed, and test coverage. * Integrate Playwright tests with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps. * Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams throughout the development lifecycle. ### Required Qualifications * 5+ years of QA automation experience. * At least 2–3 years of recent, production-level Playwright experience. * Strong TypeScript or JavaScript programming skills. * Experience building or significantly enhancing a Playwright framework from scratch. * Strong knowledge of Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, hooks, projects, parallelization, and worker management. * Experience with resilient locators, role-based selectors, auto-waiting, and debugging. * Hands-on experience with Playwright API testing, route handling, network mocking, and authentication. * Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. * Strong understanding of web technologies, REST APIs, SQL, Git, and Agile practices. * Ability to work remotely during EST/EDT hours. ### Preferred Qualifications * Experience with Docker, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or LambdaTest. * Familiarity with Playwright visual comparisons, accessibility testing, and mobile-device emulation. * Experience with Allure, Playwright HTML reports, or ReportPortal. * Exposure to performance, security, or contract testing. * Experience in insurance, banking, financial services, or healthcare is a plus.