Senior Playwright QA Engineer - API & UI Automation

Qualysoft GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 74,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualysoft GmbH, on behalf of a leading Austrian telecommunications provider, is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to test and automate business-critical web and API-driven applications, with a strong focus on Playwright and TypeScript. Location: Vienna, hybrid work model (1–2 days on site per month).

You will design and maintain scalable automation, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and drive quality across Agile sprints.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on QA experience testing frontend, backend and API-driven applications.
• Strong QA processes, test design techniques, defect management and risk-based testing.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, including building or maintaining a test framework.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience testing web applications and APIs, including test automation.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Daily use of AI tools in your testing work.
• Familiarity with TestRail or similar test management tools.
• Ownership: you take responsibility for quality outcomes and follow issues through to the end
• Self-organized: you plan your own sprint work and balance testing with automation without being chased
• User-journey focus: you visualize how real customers use the product and test accordingly

Responsibilities

• Test user stories and sprint deliveries against acceptance criteria
• Design, implement and maintain automated UI and API tests with Playwright and TypeScript
• Keep the automation framework scalable, readable and stable, and fix flaky tests at the root cause
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and act on the results
• Perform functional, exploratory, integration and regression testing
• Validate end-to-end business and customer journeys across multiple systems
• Take part in backlog refinement and sprint planning, raising risks and testability questions early
• Report, analyze and track defects through resolution
• Contribute to improving QA practices, automation coverage and team quality standards

Skills

QA experience

Test design

Analytical thinking

AI testing tools

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Jenkins

TestRail

Job description

Qualysoft GmbH, on behalf of a leading Austrian telecommunications provider, is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to test and automate business-critical web and API-driven applications, with a strong focus on Playwright and TypeScript. Location: Vienna, hybrid work model (1–2 days on site per month).

You will design and maintain scalable automation, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and drive quality across Agile sprints.