Playwright Automation Engineer / QA Automation Engineer

National Computer Systems Inc; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

National Computer Systems Inc in Chicago, IL is seeking a Playwright Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain UI and end-to-end test suites. You will build reusable TS/JavaScript frameworks using Playwright Test to automate functional, regression, and cross-browser testing.

Responsibilities include creating robust locators, implementing POM patterns, and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines. Collaboration with developers, QA, product owners, and stakeholders is essential for

Qualifications

• Experience building Playwright-based automation frameworks.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills for test automation.
• Proficient in UI and end-to-end testing across browsers.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with API testing and test data management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Playwright UI tests.
• Create reusable test frameworks with TS/JS and Playwright Test.
• Automate functional, regression, smoke, and cross-browser tests.
• Develop resilient selectors and Page Object Model patterns.
• Run tests across Chromium, Firefox, WebKit; debug with traces.
• Integrate tests into CI pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and product stakeholders.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

Web UI automation

End-to-end testing

Functional and regression testing

Cross-browser testing

Playwright locators

Assertions and auto-waiting

Fixtures and hooks

Page Object Model

Test data management

API testing

HTML test reports

Trace Viewer / debugging

Git / source control

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Chicago, IL

Long term project.

Playwright Automation Engineer / QA Automation Engineer using Playwright, here is a practical job description and skills list. Playwright is used for reliable end-to-end web testing and supports Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, with capabilities such as auto-waiting, assertions, parallel execution, tracing, and test isolation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI and end-to-end test suites using Playwright.
• Create reusable test frameworks using TypeScript/JavaScript and Playwright Test.
• Automate functional, regression, smoke, integration, and cross-browser testing.
• Develop reliable locators using approaches such as roles, labels, test IDs, and other resilient selectors.
• Implement assertions, fixtures, hooks, reusable utilities, and Page Object Model (POM) patterns.
• Execute automated tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers.
• Implement parallel execution and test isolation to improve test-suite reliability and execution time.
• Debug automation failures using screenshots, videos, logs, reports, and Playwright Trace Viewer.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Perform API testing and combine API validation with UI automation where appropriate.
• Analyze failed and flaky tests, identify root causes, and improve automation stability.
• Work closely with developers, QA engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Participate in test planning, test-case reviews, defect management, and release validation.

Key Technical Skills:

Must-have

• Playwright
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• Web UI automation
• End-to-end testing
• Functional and regression testing
• Cross-browser testing
• Playwright locators
• Assertions and auto-waiting
• Fixtures and hooks
• Page Object Model
• Test data management
• API testing
• HTML test reports
• Trace Viewer / debugging
• Git / source control
• CI/CD.