Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Highly skilled Quality Assurance professional sought after to spearhead test automation efforts.

About the Role

We are urgently looking for an experienced Automation Engineer to drive innovation in testing frameworks, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability across all endeavors. This role requires deep expertise in Playwright, modern automation tools, and industry best practices. You'll be architecting, implementing, and optimizing automation frameworks, mentoring engineers, and working cross-functionally to embed automation into our Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline and DevOps strategy, while also influencing the QA automation roadmap to align with company-wide engineering standards.

• Designs and implements scalable, reusable automation frameworks, focusing on Playwright for end-to-end testing.
• Leads the evolution of test automation architecture, ensuring best-in-class design patterns, performance, and maintainability.
• Defines and enforces automation standards, establishing a center of excellence for test automation practices.
• Conducts research and evaluation of cutting-edge tools to improve automation coverage, performance, and efficiency.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in Playwright and automation best practices, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.
• Provides strategic guidance on test automation adoption across teams, influencing company wide QA strategy.
• Conducts code reviews and establish best practices for automation test development.
• Leads training initiatives for manual QA engineers transitioning to automation roles.
• Develops, maintains, and optimizes highly efficient automated test scripts for functional, regression, performance, and API testing.
• Ensures seamless integration of automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling continuous testing and deployment.
• Implements parallel execution, distributed testing, and cloud-based automation solutions to improve test efficiency.
• Collaborates with DevOps and Engineering teams to enhance test execution strategies and reporting.
• Writes non-functional test scripts and executes, with good understanding of performance testing.
• Defines and tracks automation KPIs, ensuring measurable improvements in test coverage, execution time, and defect detection.
• Establishes and maintains test data management strategies for automated testing.
• Drives adoption of shift-left testing, ensuring early-stage automation within the SDLC.
• Implements AI-driven automation techniques to optimize test selection and execution.
• Partners with Software Architects, Developers, Product Managers, and DevOps to drive quality first development.
• Actively participates in Agile ceremonies, advocating for automation-driven testing approaches.
• Drives strategic initiatives that align automation efforts with business and technology goals.
• Advocates for and champion a culture of automation-first testing across engineering teams.
• Provides training for manual test engineers on automation tools and processes. Helps them to transition as an automation engineer.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in QA Automation.
• Must have experience in Selenium and Playwright.
• Experience in test automation tools such as Cypress, WebdriverIO, Typescript, etc. are a plus.
• Must have a solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, design patterns, software testing processes, best practices, and be accustomed to Agile Development.
• Must be familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools and performance testing and security testing.
• Must have a fast, reliable DSL, Fiber, or Broadband connection (not mobile or broadband stick) as the primary internet connection with a minimum actual speed of 50MBPS.

Ready to take the next step in your career? Submit your application now.

We kindly request your patience as we receive a significant number of applications. Rest assured that our team will update your application's status soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to stay informed about future opportunities and company updates.

This is a challenging and rewarding role that requires a strong passion for automation and a desire to make a meaningful impact. If you're a motivated and detail-oriented individual who thrives in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply.