Senior Automation Quality Engineer (JavaScript & Playwright)

Cognizant; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking a Senior Automation Quality Engineer in Halifax. The role involves developing automation scripts and conducting comprehensive API testing, requiring strong JavaScript and Playwright skills. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of experience and thrive in a hybrid work environment, balancing in-office and remote work.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellness programs

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years experience in automation frameworks and scripts.
• 2+ years experience with JavaScript and Playwright.
• Experience with CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation test scripts using Playwright.
• Conduct API testing to validate functionality.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Automation framework design

JavaScript expertise

Problem-solving

API automation

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Postman

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Automation Quality Engineer to join in our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. This role is ideal for someone with deep test automation expertise in Java and JavaScript(Playwright), solid QA experience, and a passion for improving quality in complex, evolving systems. If you are driven by quality, love solving complex problems, and thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, we’d love to have you on our team!

Responsibilities

• Develop robust and maintainable automation test scripts using Playwright.
• Write, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications and APIs.
• Develop scalable and reusable test automation frameworks using Selenium, Java, and TypeScript.
• Conduct comprehensive API testing to validate functionality, reliability, and performance.
• Help lead test automation efforts, advocate for automation, contribute to framework design, and suggest process improvements.
• Review automated test runs, report on automated test execution and coverage statuses, and maintain or repair broken automated tests.
• Identify, log, and track software defects, and work with teams to resolve issues.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Required qualifications

• Overall 7 to 10 years hands-on experience in designing automation framework, automation script development and maintenance with strong expertise in Playwright.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in test automation development using JavaScript with Playwright framework.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience in API automation Postman and Rest Assured.
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Testing process/types, Agile experience, and defect management tools like qTest, JIRA, ALM, or TestRail.

Preferred qualifications

• Good to have Retail experience (Order Management, Logistics, Inventory Management, Payment system and Sales).
• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or PyTest.

Additional information

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working Arrangements: We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Halifax, NS location. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.