Software Development Engineer - Test - Playwright Testing

Description :

Role : Software Engineer in Test.

Location : Hyderabad (On-site).

Experience: 5 Years+.

Work Timing : 2 PM 11 PM IST.

Responsibilities :

- Define test strategy and create detailed test plans.

- Design and maintain smoke, regression, integration, E2E, negative, and exploratory test suites.

- Write and execute manual and automated test cases.

- Build automation frameworks using Playwright, TypeScript, and Node.js.

- Perform API functional and negative testing for REST/GraphQL services.

- Validate dynamic UI behavior, workflows, feature flags, and metadata-driven functionality.

- Ensure RBAC enforcement and tenant data isolation.

- Implement contract testing and schema validation in CI pipelines.

- Perform performance, security, and accessibility testing.

- Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

- Analyze defects, reduce flaky tests, and improve automation stability.

- Publish test reports, logs, screenshots, and execution artifacts.

Required Qualifications :

- Above 6 years of relevant experience in QA and/or SDET roles with ownership across manual and automation testing.

- Demonstrated strength in writing test plans, test cases, and comprehensive test suites for complex systems.

- Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and communication skills.

Technology Stack :

- UI and End-to-End: Playwright (TypeScript, Node.js).

- API Functional: Playwright APIRequestContext, Supertest.

- Contract Testing: Pact (Pact JS) with broker.

- Schema Validation: OpenAPI validation in CI, AJV for JSON Schema validation (metadata and configuration).

- Performance and Load: k6 with CI thresholds.

- Security Scanning: OWASP ZAP baseline and API scanning.

- Accessibility: axe-core integrated into automated flows.

- Mocking: MSW (Mock Service Worker) for deterministic scenarios.

- Environment and CI/CD: Docker, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Git.