Automation QA Lead & Playwright Architect

Perseus Group, Constellation Software; Canada; On-site; CAD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Perseus Group, a Constellation Software unit, seeks a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to drive automation and elevate QA. You will personally enhance the automation foundation with Playwright in TypeScript and lead a global QA team to deliver automation at scale, using data to prioritize investments.

The role emphasizes building scalable automation, establishing standards, and integrating AI-assisted testing inside CI/CD, while partnering with Development and DevOps to improve release

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software quality assurance and testing experience.
• Expert-level experience building enterprise-scale test automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable tools, with strong TypeScript or JavaScript skills.
• Strong software engineering skills, preferably in TypeScript and JavaScript, including Git, API testing, SQL, debugging, and code review.
• Experience integrating automated regression testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
• Experience scaling automation capability through coaching, standards, and delegation.
• Proven use of quality metrics, dashboards, and KPIs to drive decisions and outcomes.
• Experience testing complex web-based enterprise applications in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and excellent verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Own test automation strategy and roadmap for Playwright framework and CI/CD integration.
• Design and build scalable Playwright suites in TypeScript with fixtures, workers, parallelization, and reporting.
• Organize workflow-based testing suites with smoke, core regression, and release regression layers across functional, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Assess manual test inventory and decide on automation, redesign, consolidation, or retirement.
• Collaborate with Development and DevOps to enhance automated regression pipelines and testing environments.
• Apply AI-assisted tools to test generation, maintenance, coverage analysis, and defect identification.

Skills

Playwright/automation

TypeScript/JavaScript

CI/CD integration

QA metrics & KPIs

Agile testing

Communication

Problem solving

Automation leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Perseus Group, a Constellation Software unit, seeks a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to drive automation and elevate QA. You will personally enhance the automation foundation with Playwright in TypeScript and lead a global QA team to deliver automation at scale, using data to prioritize investments.

The role emphasizes building scalable automation, establishing standards, and integrating AI-assisted testing inside CI/CD, while partnering with Development and DevOps to improve release