Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright & API Testing

Bytes Group; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Bytes Group is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript, complemented by strong manual testing across web apps, APIs, and backend systems.

You will collaborate with Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and DevOps to embed quality across the lifecycle and support continuous delivery in a fast-paced Agile environment. At least three days onsite per week are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of commercial software testing experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated tests using Playwright with TypeScript.
• Experience implementing automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM) or similar design patterns.
• Solid manual testing experience across web apps, APIs, backend systems, and end-to-end processes.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs using Postman or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated UI and API tests using Playwright with POM principles.
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across web apps, APIs, and backend services.
• Create and maintain test cases, test scenarios, plans, and data for manual and automated testing.
• Conduct API testing using Postman, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Integrate automated tests within CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.

Skills

QA automation

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

Manual testing

API testing

CI/CD

GitHub

SQL

SDLC/STLC

communication

problem solving

Agile

Team collaboration

Education

ISTQB Foundation Certification

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/IT

Tools

Playwright

Postman

GitHub

CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

JMeter/k6 (desirable)

Job description

Bytes Group is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript, complemented by strong manual testing across web apps, APIs, and backend systems.

You will collaborate with Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and DevOps to embed quality across the lifecycle and support continuous delivery in a fast-paced Agile environment. At least three days onsite per week are required.