Lead QA Automation Engineer; Playwright Insurance; Warren, NJ Onsite

Role:
Lead QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) with Insurance (Warren, NJ 07059) Onsite

Location:

Warren, NJ 07059

Domain:
Insurance

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid (3 days a week)

We are looking for an experienced Lead QA Automation Engineer with strong hands‑on expertise in Playwright to lead the quality engineering practice across our web applications and services. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of progressive QA experience—including automation framework design, test strategy, CI/CD‑integrated testing, and team leadership. You will define the quality roadmap, mentor a team of QA engineers, and drive a shift‑left, automation‑first culture across the engineering organization.

• Define and own the end‑to‑end test strategy across functional, regression, integration, API, performance, and accessibility testing.
• Establish quality gates, KPIs, and SLAs for releases; report quality metrics to engineering and product leadership.
• Drive a shift‑left quality culture: in‑sprint automation, risk‑based testing, and early defect prevention.
• Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and processes that improve test efficiency and coverage.

• Architect, build, and maintain a scalable, reusable Playwright‑based test automation framework (Type Script/JavaScript).
• Design Page Object Model (POM) / Screenplay / fixture‑based patterns for maintainability and reuse.
• Implement parallel, cross‑browser, and cross‑device test execution (Chromium, Firefox, Web Kit, mobile emulation).
• Build API test automation using Playwright API testing, REST Assured, Supertest, or Postman/Newman.
• Develop and maintain data‑driven, BDD (Cucumber/Gherkin), and tag‑based test execution strategies.
• Implement visual regression, accessibility, and contract testing where appropriate.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, or CircleCI.
• Configure test environments, containerized test execution (Docker), and cloud test grids (Browser Stack, Sauce Labs, Lambda Test).
• Implement intelligent retries, flaky test detection, test sharding, and trace/video/screenshot capture for diagnostics.
• Drive reporting and observability with Allure, Playwright HTML reporter, Report Portal, or custom dashboards.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA and SDET engineers; conduct interviews and hire top quality engineering talent.
• Perform code reviews of automation scripts, enforce standards, and continuously improve quality of test code.
• Coach manual testers on transitioning to automation and engineering best practices.
• Champion Agile/Scrum ceremonies—sprint planning, refinement, retros—from the QA perspective.

• Partner with developers, product managers, designers, and Dev Ops to ensure quality is owned across the team.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews to identify testability concerns early.
• Collaborate with performance, security, and SRE teams for non‑functional testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling, OWASP ZAP).
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and feed learnings back into test coverage.

• QA experience with test automation.
• Hands‑on, production‑grade experience with Playwright (Type Script preferred).
• Proven ability to design and scale automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong programming skills in Type Script/JavaScript; familiarity with Java, Python, or C# is a plus.
• Deep understanding of QA methodologies—STLC, Agile testing quadrants, risk‑based testing, exploratory testing.

• Expert with Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, projects, parallelization, and worker management.
• Strong command of auto‑waiting, locators, role‑based selectors, and resilient test design.
• Experience with Playwright API testing, network mocking, request interception, and route handling.
• Hands‑on with Playwright tracing, codegen, debugging, and CI integration.
• Experience with component testing using Playwright Experimental Component Testing or similar.

• API testing with Playwright…