AI Automation Test Engineer - Playwright (Web & Mobile)

IT Seals India Pvt Ltd.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Seals India Pvt Ltd. seeks an AI Automation Test Engineer to migrate Java Selenium suites to Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) and embed AI-assisted testing. You will lead migration scope, implement end-to-end automation, and optimize QA workflows with AI-driven data and failure triage.

You’ll work across CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI), containerized runs with Docker, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve coverage, reliability, and speed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 5–7 years of test automation experience with at least 2 years hands-on Playwright.
• Demonstrable experience migrating Java Selenium to Playwright (TS/JS).
• Strong programming in TypeScript/JavaScript with async/await.
• Working proficiency in Java to aid migration and refactor.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Playwright-based end-to-end automation across Chromium, Firefox, WebKit.
• Build scalable Page Object Model framework with config-driven environments.
• Implement API testing within Playwright and Postman for coverage.
• Use tracing, video, and network interception to diagnose failures quickly.
• Perform AI-assisted test generation, data synthesis, and self-healing locators.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java Selenium migration

AI/LLM in testing

API testing

CI/CD tooling

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / CS / IT

Tools

Postman

Newman

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an AI Automation Test Engineer with strong hands‑on Playwright expertise to build, scale, and maintain intelligent test automation for web and mobile applications. This role has a specific mandate: migrate and modernise existing Java‑based Selenium test suites to Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript), while embedding AI‑assisted techniques (AI‑generated test cases, self‑healing locators, MCP‑enabled tooling, LLM‑based test data and failure triage) into the day‑to‑day QA workflow.

The ideal candidate has already led or contributed materially to a Java Selenium Playwright migration, can quantify the outcome (execution time, flakiness, maintenance effort), and is comfortable using AI tooling as a force multiplier rather than a novelty.

Role & responsibilities

Playwright Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain end‑to‑end automation suites using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Build scalable framework architecture Page Object Model / fixtures, reusable components, config‑driven environments, parallel and sharded execution.
• Implement API testing within Playwright (requestcontext) alongside UI coverage, plus Postman/Newman where required.
• Use Playwright's tracing, video, screenshot, and network interception/mocking capabilities to make failures diagnosable on the first pass.
• Implement visual regression and accessibility checks (e.g. Playwright snapshots, axe‑core integration).

Selenium Playwright Migration

• Audit the existing Java‑based Seleniumsuites: assess coverage, redundancy, flakiness, and business criticality to define migration scope and sequencing.
• Define the migration strategy and roadmap wave planning, coexistence approach, and criteria for rewrite vs. retire vs. defer.
• Convert Java Selenium test scripts, locator strategies, waits, and utilities into TypeScript/JavaScript Playwright idioms (auto‑waiting, web‑first assertions, locators over raw selectors) a cross‑language rewrite, not a line‑by‑line port.
• Re‑map Java‑side supporting layers (TestNG/JUnit structures, Maven/Gradle build config, custom utilities, reporting hooks) to their Playwright/Node equivalents.
• Run both suites in parallel during transition and reconcile results to prove functional equivalence before Selenium decommissioning.
• Report migration KPIs: coverage parity, execution time reduction, flakiness rate, maintenance effort saved.

AI‑Enabled Quality Engineering

• Use AI tooling to accelerate test case generation, test data synthesis, and script scaffolding from requirements, user stories, or Figma designs.
• Work with MCP (Model Context Protocol) serversand AI agent frameworks to enable AI‑driven test execution, exploration, and reporting.
• Implement self‑healing locators and AI‑assisted failure triage to reduce false positives and manual analysis time.
• Apply AI to log/defect clustering, root‑cause suggestion, and risk‑based regression selection.
• Critically validate all AI‑generated output — accountability for correctness stays with the engineer.

Mobile Automation

• Automate Android and iOS applications using Appium (and Playwright for mobile web / responsive viewports).
• Execute across real devices, emulators/simulators, and cloud device farms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, LambdaTest).
• Validate compatibility across OS versions, screen sizes, and form factors; ensure Google Play and Apple App Store guideline compliance.

CI/CD, Reporting & Collaboration

• Integrate suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI) with quality gates and scheduled regression runs.
• Containerise execution (Docker) and manage parallel/grid execution for speed at scale.
• Publish actionable reporting and QA metrics — pass rate, flakiness, coverage, defect leakage, mean time to detect.
• Manage defects end‑to‑end in Jira; drive clear reproduction steps and fast developer turnaround.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, daily stand‑ups, and QA reviews in an Agile/Scrum environment; contribute to shift‑left and test‑first practices.
• Mentor junior QA engineers on Playwright and AI‑assisted testing practices.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 5 to 7 yearsof overall test automation experience, including at least 2 years hands‑on Playwrightin a production delivery context.
• Demonstrable experience migrating test scripts from Java Selenium to Playwright — able to walk through scope, approach, pitfalls, and measured outcomes.
• Strong programming ability in TypeScript/JavaScript, with a solid grasp of async/await patterns, Node tooling, and npm ecosystem.
• Working proficiency in Java — sufficient to read, interpret, and refactor existing Selenium/TestNG codebases during migration.
• Deep understanding of Selenium WebDriver — architecture, explicit/implicit waits, grid, and its limitations relative to Playwright.
• Practical experience applying AI/LLM toolsto testing (test generation, script authoring, triage, self‑healing) — including awareness of their failure modes.
• Exposure to MCP serversor comparable AI‑agent tooling for test execution or orchestration.
• API testing proficiency — REST, JSON schema validation, auth flows, Postman.
• Mobile automation with Appium; working knowledge of Android Studio and Xcode basics.
• Git‑based workflows, code review discipline, and CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Strong analytical, debugging, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have

• Playwright component testing; contract testing (Pact).
• Performance testing — k6, JMeter, Gatling; Lighthouse for web performance.
• Accessibility testing to WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 standards.
• Cloud platform familiarity (Azure, AWS, GCP) and observability tooling.
• Test management integration (Zephyr, Xray, TestRail) and BDD (Cucumber, Playwright‑BDd).
• Security testing basics (OWASP Top 10 awareness).
• ISTQB certification or equivalent.