E2E Quality Engineer - Playwright, UDX

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We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineering Lead to own end-to-end quality for a high-traffic, high-availability B2C digital platform. This is a full-fledged E2E QA leadership role spanning functional testing, test automation, and performance engineering. The ideal candidate leads a team of QA engineers, engages directly with client stakeholders to translate functional and non-functional requirements into robust test strategy and artifacts, drives modern automation and AI-assisted testing practices, and takes ownership of performance testing and tuning to ensure the platform scales reliably under production-level load.

Your role

Own end-to-end quality for the platform: lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA engineers, assigning work, reviewing output, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery.

Act as the primary QA point of contact for client and business stakeholders; gather, clarify, and translate both functional and non-functional requirements into actionable test strategy.

Design and own functional test artifacts, including test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and release/quality checklists.

Plan, execute, and oversee functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing cycles; provide final quality sign-off ahead of releases.

Define and drive the test automation strategy, building and maintaining automation frameworks using Playwright (Type Script/JavaScript) and Reflect.run,Own performance engineering end-to-end: define the performance test strategy, design and execute load, stress, and soak tests using K6, identify bottlenecks, and partner with engineering on tuning and validation.

Leverage AI-powered tools such as Claude and Cursor to accelerate test design, automation scripting, and defect analysis, while establishing review harnesses and validation checkpoints to prevent hallucinated or incorrect outputs.

Manage defect lifecycle end-to-end using Jira and Test Rail, providing clear, timely visibility into quality status and risk for senior stakeholders.

Partner with developers, business analysts, product owners, and architects across the SDLC to embed quality early (shift-left) and support CI/CD quality gates.

Coach and upskill the QA team on automation, performance testing, and AI-assisted testing practices.

Your skills and experience
10+ years of overall QA/QE experience, including experience leading or mentoring a QA team in a lead or management capacity.

Proven track record as a well-rounded, full-fledged E2E Quality Engineer across functional testing, test automation, and performance testing.

Demonstrated experience designing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and other QA artifacts directly from functional and non-functional requirements.

Strong stakeholder management skills, with direct experience interfacing with client/business stakeholders on requirements, quality status, and sign-off.

Hands-on automation expertise with Playwright using Type Script or JavaScript; working knowledge of, or strong aptitude to quickly learn, Reflect.run.

Solid, hands-on performance testing and performance engineering experience: load/stress/soak testing, bottleneck identification, and collaborating on performance tuning.

Experience with K6 is highly desirable.

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