QA Automation Engineer – Playwright & TypeScript (Hybrid)

lower-llc; Columbus (TX); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401K with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Mortgage discounts

Job summary

Lower is seeking a QA Engineer focused on test automation to scale quality across its products and engineering teams. You will work with QA & SDET, developers, and product/design partners to create reliable automated test coverage for web apps and APIs.

This hands-on role requires translating requirements into automated tests, expanding regression suites, and ensuring releases are production-ready while embracing exploratory testing where appropriate.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in QA Engineering or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience writing automated tests for modern web applications.
• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or a similar browser automation framework.
• Experience using JavaScript or TypeScript to write and maintain automated tests.
• Experience testing REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing.
• Ability to translate product requirements and user workflows into clear test scenarios and automated test cases.
• Experience investigating failed automated tests and troubleshooting application, test, data, or environment issues.
• Comfortable working closely with software engineers and understanding application behavior across frontend, backend, and API layers.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to think through edge cases and unexpected user behavior.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when documenting defects and collaborating with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated end-to-end tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Build automated test cases using established frameworks and standards.
• Translate product requirements and acceptance criteria into automated coverage.
• Expand and maintain regression, smoke, integration, and release-validation suites.
• Build and maintain automated API tests using Postman and code-based testing approaches.
• Execute automated tests, investigate failures, and distinguish defects from environment issues.
• Ensure automated tests remain reliable and maintainable as applications evolve.
• Collaborate with QA, SDET, engineers, Product, and Design throughout the dev lifecycle.

Skills

QA Automation

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

Agile/Scrum

Bug investigation

Tools

Postman

Selenium/Cypress

Job description

Lower is seeking a QA Engineer focused on test automation to scale quality across its products and engineering teams. You will work with QA & SDET, developers, and product/design partners to create reliable automated test coverage for web apps and APIs.

This hands-on role requires translating requirements into automated tests, expanding regression suites, and ensuring releases are production-ready while embracing exploratory testing where appropriate.