we are seeking an experienced *qa automation engineer* with deep, hands-on expertise in *playwright* to build and maintain automated testing solutions for web applications and apis.

*location:* remote

*work hours:* must be available during est/edt business hours

*employment type:* contract

### key responsibilities

* design, develop, and maintain a scalable playwright automation framework using typescript or javascript.

* create automated functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and api tests.

* develop reusable fixtures, page objects, utilities, and test-data solutions.

* use playwright locators, auto-waiting, assertions, projects, and test configuration to create reliable tests.

* execute parallel and cross-browser testing across chromium, firefox, and webkit.

* perform api testing using playwright’s `apirequestcontext`.

* implement network mocking, request interception, authentication-state reuse, and test-data setup.

* configure playwright tracing, screenshots, videos, retries, and html reporting for troubleshooting.

* reduce flaky tests and improve automation stability, execution speed, and test coverage.

* integrate playwright tests with ci/cd pipelines such as github actions, jenkins, gitlab ci, or azure devops.

* collaborate with developers, product managers, and devops teams throughout the development lifecycle.

### required qualifications





professional english speaking is a must

* 10+ years of qa automation experience.

* at least 5 years of recent, production-level playwright experience.

finance experience is a must

designed, architected, and scaled a custom automated testing framework from inception.

* strong typescript or javascript programming skills.

* experience building or significantly enhancing a playwright framework from scratch.

* strong knowledge of playwright test runner, fixtures, hooks, projects, parallelization, and worker management.

* experience with resilient locators, role-based selectors, auto-waiting, and debugging.

* hands-on experience with playwright api testing, route handling, network mocking, and authentication.

* experience integrating automated tests into ci/cd pipelines.

* strong understanding of web technologies, rest apis, sql, git, and agile practices.

* ability to work remotely during est/edt hours.

### preferred qualifications

* experience with docker, browserstack, sauce labs, or lambdatest.

* familiarity with playwright visual comparisons, accessibility testing, and mobile-device emulation.

* experience with allure, playwright html reports, or reportportal.

* exposure to performance, security, or contract testing.

* experience in insurance, banking, financial services, or healthcare is a plus.

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