Automation Engineer Playwright

Location: Richmond, VA or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid 3 Days Onsite, 2 Days Remote)
Experience: 7 Years

We are seeking an experienced Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright, TypeScript, and JavaScript to design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building automation frameworks from scratch, developing end-to-end UI and API automation suites, and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Healthcare and member portal experience is highly desirable.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Playwright automation frameworks using TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Implement Page Object Model (POM) or equivalent design patterns to ensure reusable and maintainable test automation.

• Develop end-to-end UI automation suites covering critical business workflows, regression scenarios, and smoke tests.

• Execute cross-browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

• Create reliable locators using role-based, test-id, XPath, and other locator strategies.

• Utilize Playwright features such as auto-waiting, web-first assertions, fixtures, projects, parallel execution, retries, and tracing.

• Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and test utilities.

• Manage authentication states using Playwright storageState.

• Develop API automation using Playwright request fixtures, Postman, or REST Assured.

• Implement network interception and mocking to validate error scenarios and downstream dependencies.

• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.

• Perform test data setup, validation, and backend checks using SQL.

• Investigate automation failures and perform root cause analysis across UI, API, and database layers.

• Collaborate with development, QA, and business teams in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Communicate defects, quality risks, and testing progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• 7 years of experience in software testing and test automation.

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Playwright, building and maintaining production automation frameworks.

• Strong programming skills in TypeScript and/or JavaScript.

• Demonstrated experience designing and developing automation frameworks from scratch.

• Strong understanding of Playwright core concepts, including locators, fixtures, auto-waiting, parallelism, retries, tracing, and configuration.

• Experience with UI automation, API testing, and REST services.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.

• Strong Git skills, including branching, pull requests, code reviews, and merge conflict resolution.

• Working knowledge of SQL for test data setup and backend validation.

• Good understanding of QA fundamentals, test design techniques, defect lifecycle, and risk-based testing.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

• Strong debugging, analytical, and communication skills.

• Healthcare domain experience.

• Experience testing healthcare member portals.

• Hands-on experience with Selenium automation.

• Strong JavaScript-based automation testing experience.

• Experience with cross-browser testing and complex enterprise application workflows.

1. Automation Testing

2. Playwright Automation Framework Development

3. TypeScript / JavaScript Programming, XPath and Locator Strategies

Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3 Days Onsite and 2 Days Remote
Locations: Richmond, VA or Atlanta, GA