Senior QA Engineer — Playwright & AI-Driven Automation

Appfire; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Appfire

26 paid vacation days annually

Wellness Days (1 day per month)

24 hours of paid volunteer time

Private healthcare plan

Life insurance provided by UNUM

MyBenefit Platform -150 PLN per month

Home Office Allowance -200 PLN net per

Lunch Card -300 PLN monthly

Job summary

Appfire is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to own top-tier IC work in a remote-first environment. You will shape Playwright automation, define quality standards, and mentor other QA engineers without people management responsibilities.

In this role you’ll collaborate with architects, engineers, and DevOps to improve CI/CD pipelines, test data patterns, and automation architectures that scale across SaaS products. Strong English and hands-on expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in QA/test engineering with Playwright automation on large SaaS products.
• Hands-on skills with Playwright (UI and API) and JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• Experience with AI-assisted development for test design, failure analysis, and coaching others; strong CI/CD experience with Docker.

Responsibilities

• Build and refactor Playwright automation (UI and API) and establish shared patterns and gates.
• Serve as technical escalation for unstable suites, CI bottlenecks, and test data issues.
• Define test data and environment patterns to scale automation in CI/CD.
• Advise on API, component, and E2E test strategy with architects and leads.
• Mentor QA engineers on Playwright, CI, and AI-assisted workflows; promote reusable approaches.
• Collaborate with DevOps on shift-left testing and maintainable test environments (Docker).
• Communicate quality trade-offs and risks to product and engineering leadership.

Skills

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

CI/CD

Docker

AI-assisted testing

Test data management

QA automation

Mentoring

E2E testing

Tools

Playwright

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Appfire is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to own top-tier IC work in a remote-first environment. You will shape Playwright automation, define quality standards, and mentor other QA engineers without people management responsibilities.

In this role you’ll collaborate with architects, engineers, and DevOps to improve CI/CD pipelines, test data patterns, and automation architectures that scale across SaaS products. Strong English and hands-on expertise are essential.