Playwright QA Automation Engineer – UI & API Mastery

Artifintech; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifintech is seeking a QA Automation Engineer in Chicago, IL to design and implement robust UI automation using Playwright across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. You will craft resilient locators, build reusable fixtures, and manage login flows via storageState to streamline tests.

The role requires 3–6 years in test automation, strong API testing skills, and hands-on CI/CD experience with Git, Jenkins, or GitLab.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 3–6 years of hands-on test automation, including 2+ years with Playwright building production frameworks.
• Experience architecting automation frameworks from scratch, not just scripting in an existing one.
• Solid Playwright concepts: locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, projects, parallelism, retries, tracing, configuration.
• Proficiency with API testing: REST/JSON, status codes, schema validation (Playwright request, Postman, REST Assured).
• Hands-on CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
• Strong Git skills: branching, PRs, merge conflicts, code reviews.
• Working SQL knowledge for test data setup and backend validation.
• Solid QA fundamentals: test design, boundary/equivalence analysis, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint delivery.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis across UI, API, and data layers.
• Clear written and verbal communication to explain quality risk to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end UI automation suites covering critical business workflows, regression scenarios, and smoke tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Write resilient locators using Playwright's role-based and test-id strategies, leveraging auto-waiting and web-first assertions to eliminate hard waits and reduce flakiness.
• Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and test utilities; manage authentication state via storageState to avoid redundant login flows.
• Implement API test automation using Playwright's request fixture for service-layer validation and test data setup/teardown.
• Implement network interception and mocking (page.route) to isolate the UI from unstable downstream dependencies and to test error and edge-case states.

Skills

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

Git

SQL

QA fundamentals

Agile/Scrum

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Postman

Job description

Artifintech is seeking a QA Automation Engineer in Chicago, IL to design and implement robust UI automation using Playwright across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. You will craft resilient locators, build reusable fixtures, and manage login flows via storageState to streamline tests.

The role requires 3–6 years in test automation, strong API testing skills, and hands-on CI/CD experience with Git, Jenkins, or GitLab.