QA Engineer - Playwright Automation

About the role

The role requires a strong technical foundation along with the ability to work directly with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, development teams, and offshore QA teams. The candidate will act as the onsite quality engineering representative, driving end-to-end testing initiatives, requirement analysis, defect triage, test automation adoption, and stakeholder communication across multiple applications and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Test automation, including Playwright-based automation, API testing, and database validation.
• Automate UI, API, and End-to-End business workflows across multiple retail applications.
• Develop reusable automation components and accelerate automation adoption.
• Support CI/CD integration and continuous testing practices.
• Perform root cause analysis of production and pre-production defects.
• Develop complex SQL queries for backend validation.
• Validate data consistency across multiple enterprise platforms.
• Perform testing against BigQuery, Cosmos DB, DB2, and relational databases.
• Validate ETL, CDC, integration, and data transformation processes.
• Ensure end-to-end data integrity across retail business workflows.
• Validate business processes across: Inventory Management, Replenishment, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Item Management, Forecasting & Planning.
• Create and execute end-to-end test scenarios covering complex retail workflows.
• Partner with business SMEs to ensure adequate functional and business coverage.
• Mentor junior automation engineers.
• Conduct code reviews and automation best practice reviews.
• Drive quality engineering standards and automation strategy.
• Support estimations, planning, roadmap discussions, and release planning activities.

Requirements

Minimum 5+ years of Retail/E-commerce domain experience. Experience in Replenishment, Inventory, Supply Chain, Merchandising, or Forecasting applications preferred. Experience validating complex end-to-end business processes across integrated systems.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in: TypeScript / JavaScript, SQL.
• Hands-on experience with: Playwright, REST Assured/Postman, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
• Strong database testing expertise including: BigQuery, Cosmos DB, DB2, SQL Server / Oracle.

Skills

• Experience in Large retail transformation programs.
• Experience working with distributed onsite-offshore delivery models.
• Exposure to Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and cloud-native data platforms.

Benefits

• Paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, bereavement leave, and jury duty.
• Participation in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).