QA Engineer - Playwright, API & Performance Testing

Teachercool; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado Judicial Department is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to ensure software quality through manual testing, test automation, and performance testing. The role requires hands-on automation and strong collaboration with developers and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test cases, translate requirements into tests, and contribute to automated frameworks using Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, and k6.

Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant QA and/or automated testing experience
• Hands-on test automation and scripting experience
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, maintain, and improve manual and automated test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, API, performance, and exploratory testing.
• Develop automated test scripts using Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, k6, MCP, and AI-assisted tools.
• Translate business and functional requirements into detailed and comprehensive test cases.
• Apply testing techniques such as boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning.
• Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks using Data-driven, Keyword-driven, Hybrid, and BDD architectures.
• Integrate automated testing with Git/GitLab, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and test-management systems.
• Use Zephyr Scale and GitLab to track test execution, defects, and progress.
• Investigate failures using browser tools, application logs, HTTP requests/responses, stack traces, heap dumps, and other diagnostics.
• Identify root causes and provide developers with actionable information.
• Design realistic performance-testing scenarios and load models.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, waste, variation, and other quality risks.
• Profile and analyze production data for testing purposes.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases and data-governance tools.
• Proactively identify quality issues early in the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with engineers, system personnel, business teams, and management.
• Participate in meetings and training as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

QA testing

Automated testing

Debugging

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java

k6

MCP

AI-assisted testing tools

Job description

Colorado Judicial Department is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to ensure software quality through manual testing, test automation, and performance testing. The role requires hands-on automation and strong collaboration with developers and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test cases, translate requirements into tests, and contribute to automated frameworks using Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, and k6.