Playwright Automation Engineer – Job Description (JD Job New York City area,New York USA,Software Development

Position: Playwright Automation Engineer – Job Description (JD)

Playwright Automation Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Playwright Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Microsoft Playwright. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Playwright with JavaScript/Type Script or Java, API testing, CI/CD, web technologies, and software testing methodologies. The role involves ensuring high-quality web applications through robust automation, continuous testing, and close collaboration with development teams.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Playwright automation frameworks.

Automate functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and end-to-end test cases.

Develop reusable test libraries and utilities.

Perform cross-browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and Web Kit.

Automate API testing using Playwright API Request

Context or REST Assured/Postman.

Integrate Playwright automation into CI/CD pipelines.

Perform database validation using SQL.

Analyze test failures and perform root cause analysis.

Create and maintain test data and test documentation.

Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, Dev Ops, and product teams.

Generate automation reports and dashboards.

Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies.

Required Skills Playwright

Playwright Automation
Playwright Test Runner
Browser Contexts
Auto Wait
Fixtures
Parallel Execution
Cross-Browser Testing
Trace Viewer
Screenshots
Video Recording
Network Interception
Mocking APIs
Codegen
Playwright Inspector

Programming Languages

Type Script (Preferred)
Java Script
Java
Python
C#

Knowledge of:

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Collections
Exception Handling
Design Patterns
Asynchronous Programming (JavaScript/Type Script)

Automation Framework Design

Page Object Model (POM)
Data-Driven Framework
Keyword-Driven Framework
Hybrid Framework
Fixture-Based Framework
Reusable Utilities
Configuration Management

Web Technologies

HTML5
CSS3
Java Script
Type Script
DOM
XPath
CSS Selectors
Shadow DOM
Web Components

Experience handling:

Dynamic Elements
Frames
Multiple Tabs
Alerts
File Upload/Download
Authentication
Cookies
Local Storage
Session Storage

API Testing

Playwright API Testing
REST API Testing
REST Assured
Postman
GraphQL
JSON Validation
XML Validation
OAuth 2.0
JWT Authentication

Database Testing

SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
SQL Server

Knowledge of:

CRUD Operations
SQL Joins
Stored Procedures
Data Validation

CI/CD & Dev Ops

Jenkins
Git
Git Hub
Git Hub Actions
Git Lab CI
Azure Dev Ops
Maven (Java Projects)
npm
Docker

Responsibilities:

Integrate Playwright tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Execute automated regression suites.
Generate and publish reports.
Parallel execution in pipelines.