Hybrid QA Automation Engineer — Playwright & CI/CD

Private Identity; Woonsocket (RI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Identity is seeking a QA/Automation Engineer who will own the quality gate for production builds. You will run focused manual passes, then extend the Playwright suites you own, ensuring repeatable coverage from UI to API surfaces, and drive quality decisions with clear, written context.

You will collaborate with the customer’s engineers and our international team, scheduled three days in Woonsocket, RI, and two days remote, contributing to a structured, test-driven release process.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software QA/testing, including 3+ years building and running automated tests.
• Strong, current, hands-on Playwright skills.
• Solid API testing and automation experience (Playwright's request layer, Postman/Bruno, or equivalent).
• Experience integrating automated suites into CI/CD (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Comfortable with Linux command line and Android devices; able to install builds and collect logs.

Responsibilities

• Test every build we ship as the core of the role.
• Write and run Playwright tests (TypeScript) covering UI and API surfaces.
• Validate each release against requirements and acceptance criteria with a go/no-go decision.
• Triage failures, reproduce them, and write defect reports for engineers across time zones.

Skills

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

Test automation

Postman

Linux

Documentation

Tools

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Private Identity is seeking a QA/Automation Engineer who will own the quality gate for production builds. You will run focused manual passes, then extend the Playwright suites you own, ensuring repeatable coverage from UI to API surfaces, and drive quality decisions with clear, written context.

You will collaborate with the customer’s engineers and our international team, scheduled three days in Woonsocket, RI, and two days remote, contributing to a structured, test-driven release process.