QA Automation Engineer - Playwright Specialist

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 88,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to develop end-to-end UI automation suites across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit in Chicago. The role emphasizes building resilient Playwright-based frameworks, API testing, and robust CI/CD integration.

You will design reusable fixtures, manage authentication state, and implement network mocking to stabilize tests and verify error states. Strong testing fundamentals and Agile collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of hands-on test automation experience, including 2+ years with Playwright.
• Experience architecting automation frameworks from scratch, not just scripting.
• Strong knowledge of Playwright core concepts: locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, parallelism, tracing.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end UI automation suites for critical workflows across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Write resilient locators using Playwright role-based strategies with test-id usage.
• Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and manage authentication state via storageState.
• Implement API test automation using Playwright requests for service-layer validation.
• Implement network interception and mocking to isolate UI from unstable dependencies.

Skills

Playwright

Automation frameworks

API testing

CI/CD

Git

SQL

QA fundamentals

Agile/Scrum

Debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

REST Assured

Postman

Job description

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to develop end-to-end UI automation suites across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit in Chicago. The role emphasizes building resilient Playwright-based frameworks, API testing, and robust CI/CD integration.

You will design reusable fixtures, manage authentication state, and implement network mocking to stabilize tests and verify error states. Strong testing fundamentals and Agile collaboration are essential.