Automation Architect & QA Lead - Playwright + TypeScript

Contour Software Pvt Ltd; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Contour Software Pvt Ltd in Karachi is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead / Automation Architect to shift the team from manual testing to automation-driven QA. You will personally strengthen the automation foundation with Playwright in TypeScript and guide a global QA team to scale automation efforts from the Karachi office.

The selected candidate will own the automation strategy, design scalable suites, and help prioritize test investments across functional, API, and end-to-end

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA lead with automation focus.
• Expertise in Playwright, TypeScript, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience scaling automated QA across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own test automation strategy and roadmap, leading Playwright initiatives.
• Design and build scalable Playwright TypeScript suites with fixtures, parallelization, and reporting.
• Organize test layers: smoke, core regression, release regression across functional, API, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Assess and prioritize manual tests for automation, redesign, consolidation, or retirement.

Skills

Playwright

Automation architecture

TypeScript

CI/CD

QA leadership

Tools

Playwright

Job description

Contour Software Pvt Ltd in Karachi is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead / Automation Architect to shift the team from manual testing to automation-driven QA. You will personally strengthen the automation foundation with Playwright in TypeScript and guide a global QA team to scale automation efforts from the Karachi office.

The selected candidate will own the automation strategy, design scalable suites, and help prioritize test investments across functional, API, and end-to-end