Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead QA automation activities across multiple applications and releases.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Playwright.
• Build and enhance scalable and maintainable Playwright automation frameworks.
• Develop automation using JavaScript/TypeScript, including reusable utilities, functions, fixtures, and test components.
• Define automation strategies, test approaches, standards, and best practices.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, smoke, and sanity testing.
• Identify scenarios suitable for automation and maximize automation coverage.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze automation failures, troubleshoot issues, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Work closely with developers, BAs, product owners, and other QA engineers throughout the SDLC.
• Review automation code and ensure adherence to coding and testing standards.
• Mentor QA engineers and provide technical guidance on automation practices.
• Manage defects, prioritize issues, and coordinate defect resolution with development teams.
• Prepare test plans, test scenarios, test reports, automation metrics, and QA status reports.
• Support release validation and production-readiness activities.
• Continuously improve test automation frameworks, execution time, reliability, and coverage.

Required Skills

• QA/testing experience with strong automation expertise.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript programming experience.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of automated UI and end-to-end testing.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, and UAT testing.
• Experience with API testing and web services.
• Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Git and source-control practices.
• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Skills

• Experience with Playwright Test.
• TypeScript-based automation frameworks.
• API automation using Playwright/API clients or tools such as Postman.
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Docker/containerized test execution.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar defect/test management tools.
• Experience with cross-browser and parallel test execution.
• Experience with cloud-based testing environments.
• Knowledge of performance, security, or accessibility testing is a plus

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree