Lead QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) -Insurance domain Must

Role Overview

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.

• Job Title:
  
  Lead QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)
• Experience:
  
  8+ years (with 2+ years in a lead/senior role)
• Employment Type:
  
  Full-time
• Department:
  Quality Engineering / Engineering
• Reports To:
  
  QA Manager / Director of Engineering

• 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.

• 8+ years of total QA experience with at least 5+ years in test automation.
• 3+ years of 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.
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