Senior Test Automation Engineer (Playwright/Cypress)

Photon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer in Dallas, TX to design, develop, and maintain automated test suites that provide fast, reliable feedback across the software development lifecycle.

You will work on UI, API, and performance testing, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, reduce flaky tests, and collaborate with developers and product owners to define acceptance criteria and improve testability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in test automation or QA engineering.
• Strong experience with Selenium and Cypress or Playwright.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain UI automation frameworks using Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright.
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mocha.
• Design and execute performance and load tests using JMeter.
• Integrate automated test suites into GitHub Actions pipelines to enable continuous testing and validation.
• Identify, triage, document, and report defects with clear reproduction steps.
• Analyze and reduce flaky tests to improve automation reliability and test execution stability.
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to define acceptance criteria and improve application testability.

Skills

Test automation

QA engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Mocha

GitHub Actions

JMeter

Job description

Photon is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer in Dallas, TX to design, develop, and maintain automated test suites that provide fast, reliable feedback across the software development lifecycle.

You will work on UI, API, and performance testing, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, reduce flaky tests, and collaborate with developers and product owners to define acceptance criteria and improve testability.