Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Contract
12 hours ago
$50 - $70 USD
Key skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptCypressPlaywrightE2E TestingDockerJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitHubAgileCI/CDLeadershipMentoringCollaboration
About this role
Seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright, TypeScript, and JavaScript to design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web applications. The ideal candidate will have experience building Playwright frameworks from scratch, implementing E2E automation, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring QA teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable Playwright automation frameworks from scratch.
- Create and maintain E2E, regression, functional, and API test automation suites.
- Implement parallel execution, test optimization, and flakiness reduction strategies.
- Integrate automation into GitHub Actions and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform API testing, database validation, network interception, and web application testing.
- Support Docker-based/containerized testing and cloud deployment environments.
- Conduct code reviews, establish automation standards, and mentor team members.
- Collaborate with developers, DevOps, product teams, and stakeholders to ensure quality releases.
Required Skills
- Playwright/Cypress, TypeScript, JavaScript
- QA Automation & Test Framework Development
- E2E Testing, Automation Strategy, Test Optimization
- CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Docker, Containerization, Cloud-Based Testing
- API Testing, Database Validation, Network Interception
- Web Application Architecture & Asynchronous Programming
- Agile Methodology, Test Planning & Execution
- Leadership, Mentoring, Code Reviews, Stakeholder Collaboration