Senior QA Automation Engineer - Web & Desktop

Foss United; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Plane Careers is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Quality Engineering to own and evolve the automated test suite across web and desktop clients. You will shape the testing framework, ensure fast and reliable tests, and cover APIs as well as UI across Cloud, self-hosted, and legacy versions.

You will collaborate daily with engineers and product teams in San Francisco and Hyderabad, drive test coverage decisions, and triage failures to distinguish defects from env issues.

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. Remove flaky tests and ensure reliability.
• 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.

Skills

Automation framework

Playwright

TypeScript

JavaScript

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

Job description

Plane Careers is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Quality Engineering to own and evolve the automated test suite across web and desktop clients. You will shape the testing framework, ensure fast and reliable tests, and cover APIs as well as UI across Cloud, self-hosted, and legacy versions.

You will collaborate daily with engineers and product teams in San Francisco and Hyderabad, drive test coverage decisions, and triage failures to distinguish defects from env issues.