Automation Engineer-Playwright

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Playwright, API automation, and a solid understanding of testing best practices.

Responsibilities

Playwright Automation

• Develop and maintain UI automation scripts using Playwright
• Handle synchronization without hard waits using auto-waits, locators, network idle, and assertions
• Debug failures locally and in CI/CD pipelines
• Identify and fix flaky tests
• Perform parallel execution across multiple browsers
• Reduce test execution time for regression suites
• Explain and review Playwright test code

API Testing

• Perform API testing using Playwright without UI
• Write API test cases for POST, PUT, PATCH, GET, DELETE
• Validate API response data, headers, status codes, and schemas
• Automate token-based authentication flows
• Troubleshoot 401 Unauthorized errors
• Design negative and boundary test scenarios

Playwright + API Validation

• Capture and validate APIs triggered by UI actions
• Identify multiple API calls and assert the correct API
• Mock APIs using Playwright for stability and test independence

Performance & JMeter (Added Advantage)

• Review and analyze JMeter test plans
• Understand threads, ramp-up period, and execution time
• Help identify performance bottlenecks

AWS Exposure (Added Advantage)

• Experience testing applications hosted on AWS
• Validate logs and debug issues using: CloudWatch, S3, EC2 / Load Balancer logs (basic understanding)

AI Tools Usage

• Use AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, etc.) for:
• Test case generation
• Debugging failures
• Code optimization
• Improving automation efficiency
• Clearly explain real-world impact of AI usage

Agile & Team Collaboration

• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies
• Understand Sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives
• Report testing status, risks, and defects effectively
• Work with Git/GitHub for version control

Test Strategy & Reporting

• Perform exploratory testing
• Break applications (e.g., Amazon checkout flow) with edge and negative scenarios
• Prioritize tasks under tight deadlines
• Handle multiple tasks in parallel efficiently
• Generate clear test execution and defect reports

Qualifications

Required Skills

Must-Have

• Playwright (JavaScript / TypeScript)
• API Testing (REST)
• HTTP Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
• Difference between PUT vs PATCH, POST vs PUT
• Authentication vs Authorization
• Git / GitHub
• Agile methodology
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Preferred Skills

Good to Have

• AWS testing exposure
• JMeter
• AI-powered testing tools
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)