Senior QA Automation Engineer – Playwright

About the role

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead our quality assurance team and define the test automation strategy for our AI‑driven platform. You will shape the testing framework for Spring Boot and Python micro‑services, as well as Angular and React front‑ends, ensuring fast and reliable releases.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the QA team, set standards and grow automation skills.
• Define overall test strategy, coverage, risk‑based prioritisation and release quality gates.
• Architect and evolve a Playwright‑based UI automation framework for Angular and React applications.
• Own API test automation for Spring Boot and Python micro‑services, covering functional, integration, contract and regression tests.
• Design test data and environment strategy for MongoDB‑backed services.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback.
• Drive shift‑left quality by collaborating with product and engineering on acceptance criteria and defect prevention.
• Establish and report quality metrics such as coverage, defect escape rate and test cycle time.
• Partner with DevOps on performance, load and reliability testing for high‑volume document processing workloads.

Required profile

• 7‑10 years of experience in QA and test automation, with leadership or mentoring experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to act as the voice of quality.
• Experience in SaaS or product‑based companies with frequent release cycles.

Required skills

• Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript or Python)
• Angular and React
• API testing tools: REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Pytest, requests
• Microservices testing: Spring Boot, FastAPI/Flask
• MongoDB queries and data validation
• CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes
• Version control and test orchestration