Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Job Description:

Immediate Joiners or less than 30 days notice period.

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Playwright and WebdriverIO. The role will automate critical business workflows, strengthen regression coverage, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and drive continuous improvement in software quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain scalable Playwright and WebdriverIO automation frameworks.

• Automate critical business workflows and comprehensive regression test suites.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.

• Execute automated tests across development, staging, and production environments.

• Analyze failures using Datadog, cloud logs, and monitoring tools.

• Partner with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to resolve defects.

• Improve test coverage, automation efficiency, and quality engineering practices.

• Produce automation metrics, dashboards, and quality reports.

• Support release validation, deployments, and production troubleshooting.

Mandatory Skills:

• 5+ years of professional experience in QA and software testing.

• 3+ years of hands-on Playwright framework design and implementation experience.

• Strong expertise in automation framework design, test development, and execution.

• JavaScript, TypeScript, or a comparable programming language.

• Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong debugging, log analysis, and defect troubleshooting skills.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Webdriver IO automation framework.

• AI-assisted testing tools and intelligent test automation.

• Playwright Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.

• Datadog, cloud logging, and observability platforms.

• Performance and load testing tools.

• API testing with REST and GraphQL frameworks.

• Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Git, and test management tools.

Core Competencies:

• Quality engineering and test automation.

• Framework architecture and maintainability.

• Defect investigation and root-cause analysis.

• Collaboration and stakeholder communication.

• Attention to detail and delivery ownership.

• Adaptability and continuous learning.