Playwright Automation Testing Lead - Nashville, TN - 100% Remote - Contract - Cognizant/Dollar General

Stellar Consulting Solutions is a boutique business & technology consulting company headquartered in Atlanta, GA. We deliver high-quality, agile, and experienced workforce for niche technology projects of any scale. We help forward-thinking clients solve specific problems by understanding their needs and aligning talent that can move fluidly to match skill supply and demand in real time.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Digital eCommerce Onsite Pod Lead to drive end-to-end delivery, Agile execution, and quality engineering across strategic digital commerce initiatives. This role serves as the primary onsite liaison between Business, Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, DevOps, and multiple vendor partners, ensuring seamless execution and delivery of customer-facing digital platforms. The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional teams, coordinate offshore delivery, manage stakeholder communications, drive release execution, and champion quality engineering and test automation practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead onsite execution of Digital/eCommerce programs, ensuring alignment between business priorities, product roadmaps, and delivery commitments.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders, product owners, engineering teams, QA teams, and vendor partners.
• Drive Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Release Planning, and Retrospectives.
• Coordinate and manage dependencies across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Architecture, Product, and offshore delivery teams.
• Define and oversee quality engineering strategies, test planning, automation adoption, release validation, defect governance, and production readiness.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish scalable test automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, API, and Microservices-based applications.
• Drive automation initiatives using Playwright, Python, API automation, and CI/CD pipelines to improve release quality and delivery efficiency.
• Monitor delivery health, sprint metrics, quality KPIs, risks, issues, blockers, and capacity utilization while driving timely resolutions.
• Coordinate UAT, production deployments, hypercare activities, and post-release validation.
• Mentor engineering and QA teams on automation best practices, Agile execution, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Hands-on expertise in Playwright Automation Framework development.
• Strong experience in Web UI Automation, API Testing, Microservices Testing, and Integration Testing.
• Solid knowledge of Python programming, test framework design, and automation architecture.
• Experience with REST APIs, Postman, and API automation.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, release management, sprint execution, and stakeholder governance.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Automation Test Lead
• Playwright UI Automation
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• API Automation