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Automation Engineer
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Posted on: Nov 11, 2026
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Richmond, Virginia
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Salary: $50 per hour
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Onsite
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Full-time
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Job Title :
Automation Engineer
Job Type :
Full-Time
Job Location :
Richmond Virginia United States
Remote :
No
Job Description :
Location: Richmond, VA or Atlanta, GA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
- Design, build, and maintain a scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript/JavaScript, applying Page Object Model or equivalent design patterns for reusability and maintainability.
- Develop end-to-end UI automation suites covering critical business workflows, regression scenarios, and smoke tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
- Write resilient locators using Playwright's role-based and test-id strategies, leveraging auto-waiting and web-first assertions to eliminate hard waits and reduce flakiness.
- Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and test utilities; manage authentication state via storageState to avoid redundant login flows.
- Implement API test automation using Playwright's request fixture for service-layer validation and test data setup/teardown.
- Implement network interception and mocking (page.route) to isolate the UI from unstable downstream dependencies and to test error and edge-case states.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 3 6 years of hands-on test automation experience, including 2+ years with Playwright building and maintaining production automation frameworks.
- Strong programming proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript (Java Playwright bindings acceptable depending on stack).
- Demonstrated experience architecting automation frameworks from scratch - not just writing scripts in an existing one.
- Solid understanding of Playwright core concepts: locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, projects, parallelism, retries, tracing, and configuration.
- Proficiency with API testing - REST, JSON payloads, status code and schema validation (Playwright request, Postman, or REST Assured).
- Hands-on CI/CD integration experience with at least one of GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
- Strong Git skills - branching, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, code review participation.
- Working SQL knowledge for test data setup and backend validation.
- Solid grasp of QA fundamentals: test design techniques, boundary and equivalence analysis, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based delivery.
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills; ability to investigate failures across UI, API, and data layers.
- Clear written and verbal communication - able to explain quality risk to non-technical stakeholders.
- Automation testing experience.
- Playwright automation testing.
- TypeScript, JavaScript, XPath, resource locators, etc.
- Build and deliver automation test suites using Playwright framework.
- Healthcare experience.
- Member portal experience.
- Selenium experience.
- JavaScript automation testing experience.
- 7+ Years of Experience
Position Details
Posted:
Nov 11, 2026
Reference Number:
52576-12690
Employment:
Full-time
Salary:
$50 per hour
City:
Richmond
Job Origin:
CIEPAL_ORGANIC_FEED
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