Senior QA Automation Lead - Playwright & API (Remote)

Cognizant; Halifax; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Automation Test Lead to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for web applications. You will build end-to-end test automation with Playwright, UI and API test suites, and API testing strategies.

You will lead a team, mentor automation engineers, and drive QA process improvements while working in a remote-capable role open to qualified applicants in Canada.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of QA Automation and Software Testing experience with Playwright and TS.
• 3+ years building hybrid or custom automation frameworks with Playwright (JS/TS/Python/Java).
• Experience in agile teams using BDD, Cucumber, Github Actions, and Jenkins.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining automated testing frameworks and suites.
• Strong expertise in functional, integration, regression, system, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience establishing QA metrics, quality gates, defect management, release readiness.
• Ability to lead test automation strategy and framework modernization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end test automation frameworks using Playwright.
• Develop robust UI and API test suites to validate complex web applications, microservices, and backend integrations.
• Develop and maintain API testing strategies, validating integrations, functionality, security, and data accuracy.
• Analyze test results, identify defects, and work closely with developers to resolve issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation efficiency, and overall QA processes.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and provide detailed test execution reports.
• Define, monitor, and report on key quality metrics, identifying opportunities for process improvement and risk reduction.
• Mentor automation engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, framework guidance, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

QA Automation

Playwright

TypeScript

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

Test frameworks

Tools

Cucumber

Github Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Automation Test Lead to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for web applications. You will build end-to-end test automation with Playwright, UI and API test suites, and API testing strategies.

You will lead a team, mentor automation engineers, and drive QA process improvements while working in a remote-capable role open to qualified applicants in Canada.