Senior QA Engineer & Playwright Automation Lead

Appfire; Polska; Remote; PLN 471,000 - 628,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

26 vacation days

Wellness Days

Private healthcare

Life insurance

MyBenefit 150 PLN/mo

Home Office Allowance 200 PLN

Lunch Card 300 PLN

Job summary

Appfire is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to own automation strategy across UI and API, with Playwright at the core, in a remote-first, international team. You stay hands-on, tackle the hardest quality problems, and set the bar for automation and AI-assisted QA practices.

You will mentor QA engineers, define automation patterns, and collaborate with architects, engineers, and DevOps to ensure reliable CI/CD pipelines and scalable test environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in QA/test engineering with a track record of evolving Playwright automation on large, long‑lived SaaS products.
• Advanced daily use of AI-assisted development for test design, failure analysis, and coaching others; sound judgment on when human verification is required.
• Ability to diagnose and fix systemic quality issues (parallelism, test data, flakiness, pipeline design).
• Strong CI/CD experience running and improving automated suites and working with Docker in cloud-hosted delivery.
• Experience defining automation architecture and quality standards (framework patterns, gates, layering) used beyond a single squad.
• Excellent English and credibility with developers, architects, and leadership on risk and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build and refactor critical Playwright automation (UI and API) and evolve shared patterns, standards, and quality gates across squads.
• Act as the primary technical escalation for unstable suites, CI bottlenecks, test data and environment issues, and critical-path regressions.
• Define and improve test data and environment patterns (isolation, parallelism, fixtures) so automation scales reliably in CI/CD.
• Advise on API, component-level, and E2E test strategy - layering, coverage, and what to automate - in collaboration with architects and engineering leads.
• Mentor QA engineers on Playwright, CI, and AI-assisted workflows (prompting, review, safe use of tools); champion reusable approaches team-wide.
• Work with DevOps and developers on shift-left testing, pipeline reliability, and maintainable test environments (Docker, modern CI/CD).
• Communicate quality trade-offs and risks to product and engineering leadership.

Skills

Playwright

UI automation

API testing

Docker

CI/CD

Mentoring

Remote collaboration

English

Tools

Docker

Job description

Appfire is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to own automation strategy across UI and API, with Playwright at the core, in a remote-first, international team. You stay hands-on, tackle the hardest quality problems, and set the bar for automation and AI-assisted QA practices.

You will mentor QA engineers, define automation patterns, and collaborate with architects, engineers, and DevOps to ensure reliable CI/CD pipelines and scalable test environments.