Senior QA Automation Test Engineer

Finvi; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Employer 401k match

Paid time off to volunteer

Paid parental leave

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to architect and build UI automation frameworks using TypeScript and Playwright. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in QA automation, particularly in UI automation, and a collaborative mindset. This role offers the possibility to influence product reliability and apply a highly technical skillset in a fast-growing environment. You will enjoy autonomy in your work and contribute to driving quality across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA automation with a focus on UI automation.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Expertise in Playwright for UI automation.
• Strong understanding of caching behaviors and UI rendering.
• Proven background building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Ability to debug flaky UI tests and async behavior.
• Collaborative mindset and strong debugging instincts.
• Self-starter and able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain UI automation frameworks.
• Lead automation strategy across new product areas.
• Drive quality discussions with Product and Engineering.
• Evaluate and introduce tools that increase coverage and reduce flakiness.
• Write clean, maintainable, engineering‑grade automation code.
• Lead automation strategy across new product areas, services, and integration points.
• Solve complex testing challenges involving async rendering, cached state, and dynamic UI behavior.
• Educate engineers and teammates on automation craft and strategy.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable test automation.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and architecture planning.
• Integrate automated tests into CI orchestrations.
• Implement reporting dashboards, trace logs, video recordings, and debugging tooling.

Skills

QA automation

TypeScript

JavaScript

Playwright

Debugging

Collaboration

Team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

What You'll Do

Automation Engineering & Framework Leadership

• Architect, build, and maintain modern UI automation frameworks using TypeScript and Playwright
• Design scalable test architectures for complex, cachedriven UI flows
• Define engineering best practices for test design, coding standards, patterns, and tooling
• Evaluate and introduce tools that increase coverage and reduce flakiness

Testing Execution & Technical Ownership

• Write clean, maintainable, engineering‑grade automation code
• Lead automation strategy across new product areas, services, and integration points
• Solve complex testing challenges involving async rendering, cached state, and dynamic UI behavior
• Educate engineers and teammates on automation craft and strategy

Quality Advocacy & Team Collaboration

• Drive quality discussions early and often with Product and Engineering
• Partner with developers to build testable features and quickly diagnose failures
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable test automation
• Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and architecture planning

Tooling, Infrastructure & Reporting

Integrate automated tests into CI orchestrations

• Implement reporting dashboards, trace logs, video recordings, and debugging tooling
• Analyze reliability trends and optimize automation performance
• Recommend and implement tools for visual testing, API validation, and parallel execution

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years in QA automation; 3+ years focused on UI automation.
• Strong experience with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Expertise with Playwright
• Strong understanding of caching behaviors & UI rendering
• Proven background building automation frameworks from scratch
• Ability to debug flaky UI tests and async behavior
• Collaborative mindset and strong debugging instincts
• A self‑starter and enjoy working independently

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed or cache‑heavy systems
• Performance testing or synthetic monitoring
• Component testing frameworks
• Cloud experience
• Experience building internal tools or utilities

What's In It For You

• Work on an application that handles real‑time, cache‑based data and high‑volume traffic—meaning your automation frameworks directly influence reliability and customer trust
• Apply a highly technical skillset to a product that is acquiring new customers and experiencing high growth
• You’ll have the freedom to select tools, introduce new technologies, and establish the standards that the entire team will follow to enhance stability
• You will have independence, be self‑directed, ownership, and autonomy
• This is your opportunity to leave a lasting engineering footprint, own automation end (sic)
• The product is experiencing high growth resulting in exciting work and stability

The base salary range for this role is listed above. Total compensation ultimately depends on the candidate’s primary work location, job responsibilities, role requirements, relevant experience and skillset.

Beyond traditional insurance offerings (that all start on day one), Finvi offers a wide variety of additional benefits like flexible time off, employer 401k match with no wait period, paid time off to volunteer, paid parental leave, and more. Learn more about all our benefit offerings on our website.

Why Finvi

Finvi is a fast‑paced, challenging, and technology‑transforming company. Our culture fosters an environment where you can think creatively, push yourself to new possibilities, and challenge each other to accomplish personal and professional goals. We believe that every moment, idea, and voice count. By bringing together different ideas and perspectives, we can innovate and step forward.

Our values embody who we are: have grit, own your impact, row together, embrace differences, and act transparently.

Finvi’s Equal Opportunity Statement including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities

It is the policy of Finvi to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment or recruitment advertising, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, including apprenticeship, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company‑sponsored employee activities. Provisions in applicable laws providing for bona fide occupational qualifications, business necessity or age limitations will be adhered to by the company where appropriate. For more information, read Finvi’s full Equal Opportunity Statement here.

Work Authorization

Visa sponsorship or transfer of an existing visa is not available for this position. Eligible candidates must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship or transfer.