AI Playwright Automation Architect

GSPANN Technologies, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GSPANN Technologies, Inc. is seeking an AI Playwright Automation Architect to design enterprise-wide test automation strategies and AI-powered Quality Engineering practices.

You will focus on modern framework architecture, migration from legacy tools, and mentoring QE teams. You will drive adoption of Playwright across UI, API, and end-to-end testing, integrate with CI/CD, and lead modernization efforts with AI-enabled quality improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering and test automation.
• Hands-on Playwright expertise and framework design from scratch.
• Experience migrating Selenium to Playwright and integrating CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-wide QA and test automation strategy.
• Create reusable automation components, fixtures, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish best practices to reduce flakiness and improve reliability.
• Lead automation coverage across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
• Develop framework governance, coding standards, and quality metrics.
• Modernize legacy frameworks to Playwright-based solutions with migration roadmaps.
• Integrate automation with CI/CD platforms like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Optimize pipelines through parallelization, selective execution, and quality gates.
• Leverage AI/LLMs for test generation, defect analysis, and optimization.
• Mentor QE teams and advise client stakeholders on improvements.
• Evaluate emerging testing and AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Test Automation

Framework Architecture

Playwright

CI/CD

Git Workflows

Node.js

Selenium Migration

LLMs

Prompt Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Description

GSPANN is hiring an AI Playwright Automation Architect to design enterprise-wide test automation strategies and AI-powered Quality Engineering practices, focusing on modern framework architecture and team mentorship.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-wide Quality Engineering and test automation strategy.
• Create reusable automation components, fixtures, utilities, reporting frameworks, and execution standards.
• Establish best practices to improve automation reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and reduce test flakiness.
• Lead automation coverage strategy across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop framework governance models, coding standards, and quality metrics.
• Modernize legacy Selenium or other automation frameworks to Playwright-based solutions and establish migration roadmaps.
• Integrate automation suites with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Optimize pipeline execution through parallelization, selective execution, reporting, and quality gates.
• Accelerate adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities for test generation, defect analysis, requirement understanding, test optimization, and productivity acceleration.
• Provide architectural guidance on enterprise AI adoption within Quality Engineering practices.
• Mentor Quality Engineering teams, conduct code reviews, and coach engineers on best practices.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand business challenges, recommend Quality Engineering improvements, and act as a trusted technical advisor.
• Evaluate emerging testing, automation, and AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

Skills and Experience

• Bring 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Framework Architecture.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on expertise in Playwright with proven experience designing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Work with UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing methodologies.
• Manage Git workflows, branching strategies, merge/rebase concepts, pull requests, conflict resolution, and repository management.
• Utilize Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Bring extensive experience with Node.js ecosystem, npm/yarn, package management, and build processes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in migrating Selenium or legacy automation frameworks to modern Playwright-based solutions.
• Apply practical experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies in software testing and quality engineering.
• Develop comprehensive understanding of AI concepts including Prompt Engineering, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, semantic search, agents, tools, memory, and secure enterprise AI adoption.
• Work with enterprise standards for secure and responsible AI adoption practices.
• Manage strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Bring excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.