Job Description
5-12 years of experience in Quality Engineering and Test Automation, with strong hands-on automation expertise and functional testing capability.
Role Summary
Hands-on Automation Specialist responsible for developing, maintaining and executing Playwright-based automation across Web, API and end-to-end business workflows. The role will primarily focus on automation engineering while also performing functional/manual testing, test design and defect validation as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Playwright automation using JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Automate Web/UI, API and end-to-end business scenarios across integrated applications.
- Analyze requirements, design test scenarios and identify appropriate candidates for automation.
- Perform functional/manual and exploratory testing for scenarios requiring manual validation.
- Develop reusable automation components and maintain regression suites aligned with enterprise framework standards.
- Perform automation code reviews and ensure adherence to coding and framework standards.
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and support continuous test execution.
- Analyze automation failures, identify defects and support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Perform API and backend/data validation using APIs and SQL as required.
- Collaborate with Test Architects, developers, DevOps and QE teams to implement reliable automation solutions.
- Support test estimation, execution, defect management and release validation.
- Mandatory Skills 5-12 years of experience in Quality Engineering/Test Automation.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Strong experience in Web/UI and API automation.
- Experience using GenAI-assisted coding/testing tools to accelerate test design and automation development.
- Hands-on functional/manual testing experience covering requirement analysis, test design, execution and defect management.
- Experience testing and automating end-to-end business workflows across integrated applications.
- Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs and application integration concepts.
- Experience developing reusable and maintainable automation scripts/components.
- Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or equivalent.
- Proficiency with Git/version control.
- Working knowledge of SQL for data validation.
- Strong analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Good written/verbal communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Good-to-Have Skills Experience with Selenium or other automation frameworks.
- Experience with BDD/Cucumber and JavaScript testing libraries such as Mocha/Chai or equivalent.
- Exposure to Mobile testing/automation using Appium, BrowserStack or equivalent.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Zephyr, Xray, Sauce Labs or similar test/engineering platforms.
- Exposure to additional programming languages such as Java or Python.
Ideal Candidate Profile A strong automation engineer first, with solid Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript expertise, who can also independently perform functional testing, understand complex end-to-end business scenarios and determine the right coverage across automated and manual testing.
Only Candidates who is fitting in above criteria will be interviewed and take forward.