Lead QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of QA experience, including 5 or more years in test automation and 2 years in a lead or senior role.
• At least 3 years of hands-on, production-grade Playwright experience; TypeScript is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to design and scale automation frameworks, with strong TypeScript/JavaScript programming skills. Java, Python, or C# familiarity is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, including STLC, Agile testing, risk-based and exploratory testing, the test pyramid, and shift-left/shift-right practices.
• Expert knowledge of Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, projects, parallel execution, worker management, locators, debugging, tracing, API testing, network mocking, and CI integration.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Playwright APIRequest, REST Assured, Postman/Newman, or Supertest, and BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, Playwright-BDD, SpecFlow, or Behave.
• Familiarity with performance, accessibility, visual regression, contract, and mobile testing tools and practices.
• Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or CircleCI; experience with Docker and cloud test grids is also required.
• Understanding of cloud test infrastructure; familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and Kubernetes is beneficial.
• Experience with test data and environment management, defect and test management tools, and quality engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, the DOM, JavaScript runtime, browser internals, HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and SSO.
• Comfortable writing and reading SQL and validating data in relational and NoSQL databases; familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, Kafka, or RabbitMQ is beneficial.
• Proven experience leading QA/SDET teams and owning quality across multiple products or modules.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to make pragmatic, data-informed trade-offs.
• Experience in insurance, BFSI, healthcare, or another regulated domain is an advantage.
• Beneficial additional experience includes security testing, threat modeling, AI-assisted testing, open-source QA contributions, or relevant QA, Agile, AWS, or Azure certifications.
• Candidates must provide valid documents and proof of identity.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own end-to-end test strategy across functional, regression, integration, API, performance, and accessibility testing.
• Set release quality gates, KPIs, and SLAs, and report quality metrics to engineering and product leaders.
• Promote shift-left practices, in-sprint automation, risk-based testing, and early defect prevention.
• Assess and select tools, frameworks, and processes to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Design, build, and maintain a scalable, reusable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript or JavaScript, applying maintainable patterns such as Page Object Model, Screenplay, or fixtures.
• Implement parallel, cross-browser, and cross-device testing, along with API, data-driven, BDD, visual regression, accessibility, and contract testing as appropriate.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; configure test environments, Docker-based execution, and cloud test grids.
• Improve test diagnostics and reliability through retries, flaky-test detection, test sharding, trace/video/screenshot capture, and reporting dashboards.
• Lead, mentor, and develop QA and SDET engineers; participate in hiring, review automation code, uphold standards, and coach manual testers in automation practices.
• Represent QA in Agile/Scrum planning, refinement, and retrospective ceremonies.
• Work with developers, product managers, designers, DevOps, performance, security, and SRE teams to embed quality throughout delivery and address non-functional testing needs.
• Join design and architecture reviews to identify testability concerns early.
• Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents and apply findings to improve test coverage.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CSS
• Cucumber
• DevOps
• Docker
• GCP
• GitHub
• GitLab
• GraphQL
• HTTP
• JWT
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Mobile
• Network
• NoSQL
• OAuth
• Playwright
• Postman
• Python
• REST
• RabbitMQ
• SQL
• Security
• SpecFlow
• TypeScript
• Web
• microservices
• Appium
• Architect
• BrowserStack
• ISTQB
• JIRA
• JMeter
• LLM
• Matrix
• OWASP

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We are hiring a Lead QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) for our Quality Engineering/Engineering department, reporting to the QA Manager or Director of Engineering. The role focuses on leading quality engineering across web applications and services, setting the quality roadmap, and building an automation-first culture. The position is based in Warren, New Jersey, with three days onsite each week, and is listed as full-time; the source also identifies a C2C arrangement and an all-inclusive rate of $70 per hour. Finance or insurance domain experience is relevant to the role.

last updated 44 week of 2026