QA Automation Engineer — Web & Mobile (Playwright Expert)

Sprocket Sports; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Comprehensive medical

Comprehensive dental

Culture of Higher Standards

Job summary

Sprocket Sports seeks an experienced QA Automation Engineer to own quality across our youth sports club management platform. You will lead automated testing strategy, build a scalable framework, and ensure coverage across web and mobile.

Collaborate with Product and Engineering to validate features and improve testing processes. Responsibilities include expanding Playwright tests for web/mobile web, Appium coverage for native mobile, and maintaining CI/CD test pipelines.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in test automation or QA engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Experience testing modern web applications (Angular or similar frameworks).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with engineering/product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and expand the end-to-end automated testing strategy.
• Build and maintain a scalable, reliable test automation framework.
• Establish and enforce quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure high test coverage across web and mobile platforms.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure features are testable and validated.
• Write and maintain Playwright E2E tests for web and mobile web.
• Expand Appium-based test coverage for native mobile interactions.
• Review PRs for testability and instrumentation.
• Triage test failures and determine root cause (bug vs flaky test).
• Maintain and evolve Page Object Models and test fixtures.
• Perform exploratory testing on new features and releases.
• Implement and maintain visual regression testing.
• Create high-quality bug reports with steps and evidence.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate test development.
• Seed data for test environments.

Skills

QA automation

Playwright

Angular testing

CI/CD pipelines

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Appium

Job description

Sprocket Sports seeks an experienced QA Automation Engineer to own quality across our youth sports club management platform. You will lead automated testing strategy, build a scalable framework, and ensure coverage across web and mobile.

Collaborate with Product and Engineering to validate features and improve testing processes. Responsibilities include expanding Playwright tests for web/mobile web, Appium coverage for native mobile, and maintaining CI/CD test pipelines.