Playwright Automation Architect / Technical Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evolve Playwright-based automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Establish automation standards, reusable patterns, governance, and best practices.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and drive continuous testing.
• Improve framework scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Evaluate and adopt modern automation tools and technologies.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools and techniques for test design, automation development, test-data generation, defect analysis, and coverage optimization.
• Ensure AI-assisted solutions are validated, maintainable, traceable, and aligned with quality and governance standards.
• Remain hands-on in developing and maintaining automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript or similar technologies.
• Create automation from User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, technical specifications, and business requirements.
• Support exploratory, manual, API, integration, and end-to-end testing as required.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and reduce flaky or low-value tests.
• Perform API, service, integration, and backend validation.
• Use SQL for database validation and test-data management.
• Validate end-to-end business workflows and system integrations.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to QA/SDET and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Developers, Product Owners, BAs, Architects, and Delivery teams.
• Promote shift-left testing, testability, quality engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate automation strategy, technical decisions, and quality risks to technical and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Must have 7+ years of experience in Automation Testing, SDET, Quality Engineering, or similar technical QA roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Playwright, including framework design, architecture, optimization, and governance.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, or similar.
• Strong experience with automation architecture, CI/CD, API testing, database validation, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tools or AI-enabled quality engineering practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, architectural, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate as a hands-on technical contributor and technical leader.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• PREFERRED: Data Engineering / Data Science (DE/DS) experience, experience with cloud platforms and containerized environments, experience with enterprise applications and distributed systems, experience establishing automation standards across multiple teams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay range: $150,000 - $160,000 (depending on the experience).
• Flexible and casual culture.
• Internal rotation and international mobility opportunities.
• Clear view of career progression within the company.
• Employee events, amenities, and games.
• Training courses, mentorship programs, technical tribes, sponsored certifications, leadership programs, and more.
• Bonuses via Client Referral and Employee Referral Programs.
• Refer and earn - tap your network for net-worth.