QA Automation Lead

Aubrant Digital LLC; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aubrant Digital LLC is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain full test harnesses for .NET solutions, using Playwright as the primary end-to-end tool.

You will integrate tests into Azure DevOps pipelines, run against workloads in Azure, and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to raise quality and accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; English proficiency required.
• 3–5 years of professional QA automation experience building production test suites.
• Strong proficiency in Playwright for end-to-end testing and page object patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build full test harnesses for .NET solutions using Playwright for end-to-end, integration, and API tests.
• Maintain and extend existing test suites; refactor for stability, reusability, and clearer failure diagnostics.
• Partner with developers to make applications testable by design with hooks, identifiers, and contract patterns.

Skills

Quality-minded

Clear communicator

Ambiguity tolerance

QA frontier curiosity

Customer focus

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or related discipline

Tools

Playwright

.NET test automation

Azure DevOps

Git

TypeScript

Job description

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will design and build full test harnesses for .NET solutions, with Playwright as the primary tool for end-to-end automation. You will integrate test execution into Azure DevOps pipelines, run automation against workloads deployed to Azure, and contribute to test strategy alongside developers, architects, and product owners. You will help advance howAubrantapproaches quality assurance, including the adoption of agentic automation patterns that accelerate test creation, maintenance, and triage. This role is hands-on; you will write production test code daily while contributing to the standards and tooling that shape our QA practice.

What qualifications make you an Aubrant QA Automation Engineer?

• A quality-minded engineer who treats test code with the same rigor as application code and cares about the long-term maintainability of test suites.

• A clear communicator who can articulate test results, defects, and quality risks to engineers, architects, and product stakeholders.

• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, capable of building test coverage in environments where requirements and behavior are still evolving.

• Curious about the frontier of QA, including agentic automation, AI-assisted test generation, and self-healing test patterns, and eager to bring those ideas into practice.

• Customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, treating quality as a feature that protects theuserexperience and the business.

Responsibilities:

Test Automation & Engineering:

• Design and build full test harnesses for .NET solutions, including end-to-end, integration, and API tests using Playwright and complementary frameworks.

• Maintain and extend existing test suites, refactoring for stability, reusability, and clear failure diagnostics.

• Partner with developers to make applications testable by design, including hooks, identifiers, and contract patterns.

CI/CD Integration & Cloud:

• Integrate test execution into Azure DevOps pipelines withappropriate parallelization, reporting, and quality gates.

• Run and troubleshoot test workloads against Azure-hosted environments, including handling environment-specific configuration.

• Contribute to release confidence bytyingtest outcomes to deployment decisions and feedback loops.

Innovation & Quality Practice:

• Pilot andadvanceagentic automation patterns, AI-assisted test generation, and self-healing test approaches that improve coverage and reduce maintenance.

• Contribute to QA standards, tooling, and patterns shared acrossAubrantengagements.

• Participate in test planning, defect triage, and quality reviews with engineering and product teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Scienceor a related discipline, or equivalent experience; MUST be proficient in written and spoken English (85%).

• 3 to 5 years of professional QA automation experience building andmaintainingproduction test suites.

• Strong proficiency in Playwright for end-to-end test automation, including page object patterns, fixtures, parallel execution, and stable selector design.

• Solid proficiency in .NET test automation , including writing test code in C# and integrating with .NET solutions; familiarity with frameworks such asxUnit,NUnit, orMSTest.

• Hands-on experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps pipelines, including build/release configuration, test parallelization, and results reporting.

• Working knowledge of Azure for running and troubleshooting test workloads in cloud-hosted environments.

• Solid skills in API testing, test data management, and writing maintainable, well-structured test code.

• Experience with version control (Git), code review practices, and test-related quality gates.

• Demonstrated interest in advancing QA practices, including agentic automation, AI-assisted test generation, or self-healing test patterns.

• Experience with performance, load, or security testing tools is a plus.

• Experience with TypeScript or other languages used in modern Playwright projects is a plus.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;strong communication, collaboration, customer orientation,innovationmindset, and adaptability under ambiguity.