Senior QA Automation Engineer (Manual + Playwright)

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

Job Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled QA Engineer with strong experience in both Manual and Automation Testing. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in designing test strategies, executing manual testing activities, and building scalable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring software quality throughout the SDLC by performing functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing while contributing to automation initiatives and continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manual Testing : Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories.

- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test data.

- Execute Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, System, UAT, and Exploratory Testing. Perform end-to-end validation of application workflows.

- Conduct cross-browser, cross-platform, and responsive testing.

- Identify, document, track, and verify defects using defect management tools such as JIRA.

- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Stakeholders to ensure quality deliverables. Participate in requirement reviews and provide early quality feedback.

- Automation Testing : Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript.

- Automate functional, regression, and end-to-end test scenarios. Develop reusable page objects, utilities, fixtures, and test components.

- Implement data-driven and keyword-driven automation approaches where applicable.

- Execute automated test suites and analyze failures. Improve automation coverage and framework maintainability.

- Ensure adherence to automation best practices and coding standards.

API Testing :

- Perform REST API testing using Postman and automation tools.

- Validate request/response payloads, headers, authentication, status codes, and business rules. Develop and maintain API automation test suites.

- Perform API integration and contract validation testing.

CI/CD & Quality Engineering :

- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines.

- Participate in release validation and production readiness activities.

- Monitor test execution reports and quality metrics.

- Support continuous testing practices within Agile development environments.

- Contribute to quality processes, standards, and test strategy improvements.

Required Skills :

- Testing: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke & Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Exploratory Testing, End-to-End Testing

- Automation : Playwright, TypeScript or JavaScript, Page Object Model (POM), Test Fixtures, Parallel Execution, Test Data Management, Automation Framework Design, Reporting and Logging, API & Database, REST APIs, Postman, JSON/XML, SQL Queries, Database Validation

Tools & Technologies :

- Playwright, TypeScript / JavaScript, Git, GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket, JIRA, Jenkins / Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions, Maven/NPM Package Management

Agile :

- Scrum Methodology, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

Preferred Skills :

- Experience building automation frameworks from scratch.

- Exposure to Performance Testing and Security Testing.

- Experience with Mobile or Web Application Testing.