Senior Automation Engineer – Web & Desktop Testing

Plane Software, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Plane Software, Inc. is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own our automated test suite for web and desktop clients. You will design the framework, determine what runs on every PR and before releases, and build coverage for concurrency, offline scenarios, and agent actions.

You’ll ensure tests are fast, trustworthy, and aligned with real customer usage across Cloud, self-hosted, and older versions, collaborating daily with engineers in San Francisco and Hyderabad.

Qualifications

• You have built an automation framework, not only written tests inside one.
• You are fluent in Playwright or Cypress, and in TypeScript or JavaScript.
• You have made a flaky suite trustworthy again.
• You test APIs as well as interfaces.
• You have run suites in CI and cared how long they take.

Responsibilities

• Own the automated test suite for Plane's web and desktop clients, from framework design through what runs on every pull request to what runs before a release.
• Build coverage for the parts that resist it: concurrent editing, offline and recovery, and agent actions where the correct result is a range rather than a single value.
• Decide what gets tested and what does not. Coverage is a budget, and you spend it where a failure would reach a customer.
• Keep the suite fast and trustworthy. A flaky test that engineers learn to ignore is worse than no test at all, and removing that habit is part of the job.
• Test what customers actually run: Cloud, self-hosted, and versions months behind ours, across browsers and hardware we do not control.
• Work daily with engineers and product across San Francisco and Hyderabad, and review the test coverage arriving with community pull requests.
• Triage failures nobody else wants to own, separating a real defect from a script problem from an environment problem, and doing it again the next morning.

Skills

Automation framework

Playwright or Cypress

TypeScript or JavaScript

CI/CD testing

Flaky test debugging

Tools

GitHub Actions

BrowserStack

Datadog

Sentry

Applitools

Job description

Plane Software, Inc. is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own our automated test suite for web and desktop clients. You will design the framework, determine what runs on every PR and before releases, and build coverage for concurrency, offline scenarios, and agent actions.

You’ll ensure tests are fast, trustworthy, and aligned with real customer usage across Cloud, self-hosted, and older versions, collaborating daily with engineers in San Francisco and Hyderabad.