The Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in automation testing plays a key role in building and maintaining robust Playwright-based automation frameworks and performance test suites. This role ensures the delivery of scalable, high-quality software that supports business objectives around customer satisfaction and platform reliability. A Typical Day in the Life Includes: • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright with JavaScript. • Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product owners to understand application designs and translate specifications into comprehensive automated test coverage. • Perform functional and end-to-end testing on web UI and API layers, validating features against acceptance criteria before, during, and after automation coverage. • Implement and monitor automated functional, regression, smoke, and performance test suites for web applications and RESTful services. • Configure, run, and monitor test execution in cloud and containerized environments (Docker, cloud hosted runners). • Conduct performance and load testing to identify bottlenecks and validate application scalability. Develop test strategies, plans, and cases that ensure thorough coverage across functional, integration, and API layers. • Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and drive shift-left quality practices. • Coordinate with development and deployment teams to triage defects, resolve issues, and enable bug-free product releases. Generate and present sprint-level summary reports (Allure, HTML reports) highlighting test results, coverage, flakiness, and improvement areas. • Mentor peers on Playwright best practices, test design patterns, and framework contributions. Basic Qualifications: • 5–7 years of hands-on experience in automation testing with strong expertise in Playwright. Strong coding skills in JavaScript / TypeScript with strong fundamentals in ES modules, async/await, and promises. • Proficiency building test frameworks using Playwright with runners such as Playwright Test, Cucumber-JS (BDD), Mocha, or Jest, and package management with npm or yarn Experience with REST API test automation using JavaScript/TypeScript (Playwright APIRequest, Supertest, Axios) or equivalent tooling in Python. • Strong manual and functional testing skills, including test case design, exploratory testing, and defect triage across web and API layers. Solid grasp of functional testing techniques — boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, positive/negative flow validation, and end-to-end scenario coverage. • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions, including pipeline authoring and parallel test execution. • Solid understanding of SQL and hands-on experience with data validation and back-end data testing. • Familiarity with reporting tools such as Allure, and version control workflows using Git. • Working knowledge of Docker and running automation in containerized or cloud environments. Preferred Qualifications: • Exposure to observability tooling (logs, metrics, traces) to debug flaky or failing tests. • Experience testing data platforms, ETL pipelines, or data-mesh style architectures. • Contributions to internal frameworks, page-object libraries, or open-source QA tooling.