Senior UI/API Automation Engineer - Playwright + Python

CVS Health; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Automation Engineer to design and maintain scalable test automation across web apps, APIs, and cloud platforms. You’ll implement reliable automation frameworks, improve test coverage, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, higher-confidence releases.

You’ll collaborate with developers, product managers, and QE teams while applying modern UI/API automation and cloud practices in a highly technical environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in software quality engineering or test automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python.
• Strong experience with Playwright for UI automation.
• Experience using PyTest and automation framework development.
• Strong understanding of API testing and REST services.
• Experience with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or equivalents.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud-hosted applications.
• Experience with test reporting and debugging production-quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks.
• Create automated test suites using Playwright, Python, and PyTest.
• Develop and execute API automation tests for RESTful services.
• Build reusable test utilities, libraries, and reporting capabilities.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Partner with developers, product managers, and QE teams to define quality strategies and test coverage.
• Perform root-cause analysis of failures and drive defect prevention.
• Support test execution in AWS-hosted environments.
• Validate application functionality, integrations, and end-to-end workflows.
• Participate in requirements reviews, design discussions, and sprint activities.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency.
• Contribute to quality metrics, reporting, and release readiness assessments.
• Promote quality engineering best practices across teams.

Skills

Python

Playwright

PyTest

API Testing

REST Services

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS

CI/CD

Test Framework Development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Automation Engineer to design and maintain scalable test automation across web apps, APIs, and cloud platforms. You’ll implement reliable automation frameworks, improve test coverage, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, higher-confidence releases.

You’ll collaborate with developers, product managers, and QE teams while applying modern UI/API automation and cloud practices in a highly technical environment.