Sr Engineer, Software Engineer - Test Automation Developer (Playwright)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated UI and API test solutions using Playwright or comparable modern automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or TestCafe) with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Build and enhance reusable automation frameworks and regression suites that improve software quality, release confidence and delivery speed.
• Partner with engineering, product and platform teams to define test strategies, validate platform capabilities and ensure quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines by implementing automated execution, reporting and quality gates.
• Improve automation reliability by reducing flaky tests, optimizing test coverage and enhancing regression effectiveness.
• Validate REST APIs, application integrations and end-to-end workflows across distributed platform services.
• Contribute to shared automation standards, engineering practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage assigned work while proactively identifying risks, dependencies and quality concerns.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Playwright is preferred.
• Candidates with strong experience using modern automation frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or TestCafe, along with demonstrated JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency and the ability to quickly adopt Playwright, are encouraged to apply.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated UI and API test frameworks.
• Experience integrating automated testing into Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and modern web applications in Agile and DevSecOps environments.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product and platform teams to deliver high-quality software.

Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision
• Life insurance
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• Nine paid holidays
• Eight hours of Lifetime paid time off
• Eight hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid pension plan
• Business casual attire