Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright Testing

Senior QA Automation Engineer (Manual + Playwright)

Experience :** 4 - 8 Years

Job Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled QA Engineer with strong experience in both Manual and Automation Testing. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in designing test strategies, executing manual testing activities, and building scalable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring software quality throughout the SDLC by performing functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing while contributing to automation initiatives and continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manual Testing : Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories.

• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test data.

• Execute Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, System, UAT, and Exploratory Testing. Perform end-to-end validation of application workflows.

• Conduct cross-browser, cross-platform, and responsive testing.

• Identify, document, track, and verify defects using defect management tools such as JIRA.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Stakeholders to ensure quality deliverables. Participate in requirement reviews and provide early quality feedback.

• Automation Testing : Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Automate functional, regression, and end-to-end test scenarios. Develop reusable page objects, utilities, fixtures, and test components.

• Implement data-driven and keyword-driven automation approaches where applicable.

• Execute automated test suites and analyze failures. Improve automation coverage and framework maintainability.

• Ensure adherence to automation best practices and coding standards.

API Testing :

• Perform REST API testing using Postman and automation tools.

• Validate request/response payloads, headers, authentication, status codes, and business rules. Develop and maintain API automation test suites.

• Perform API integration and contract validation testing.

CI/CD & Quality Engineering :

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines.

• Participate in release validation and production readiness activities.

• Monitor test execution reports and quality metrics.

• Support continuous testing practices within Agile development environments.

• Contribute to quality processes, standards, and test strategy improvements.

Required Skills :

• Testing: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke & Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Exploratory Testing, End-to-End Testing

• Automation : Playwright, TypeScript or JavaScript, Page Object Model (POM), Test Fixtures, Parallel Execution, Test Data Management, Automation Framework Design, Reporting and Logging, API & Database, REST APIs, Postman, JSON/XML, SQL Queries, Database Validation

Tools & Technologies :

• Playwright, TypeScript / JavaScript, Git, GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket, JIRA, Jenkins / Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions, Maven/NPM Package Management

Agile :

• Scrum Methodology, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

Preferred Skills :

• Experience building automation frameworks from scratch.

• Exposure to Performance Testing and Security Testing.

• Experience with Mobile or Web Application Testing.