Senior Automation QA Engineer (JS)
We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer (JS) to own the quality strategy and automation architecture for web platforms, using Playwright and JavaScript as core tools. This role goes beyond test implementation: the Senior QE defines quality standards, drives automation strategy, mentors others, and ensures quality scales with platform complexity.
Please note that this position requires a time-shifted schedule until 10 PM.
Responsibilities
- Design and own end-to-end automation strategy using Playwright and JavaScript
- Define automation architecture, patterns and best practices to ensure scalable, maintainable and performant test suites
- Drive adoption of shift-left testing practices and establish quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
- Implement and oversee UI, API and integration tests for complex user journeys
- Handle test data management and environment orchestration
- Ensure coverage of non-functional requirements such as reliability, usability and performance awareness
- Lead code reviews for test automation code, eliminate flaky tests and improve test execution reliability
- Drive observability and reporting of test results, partnering with developers on testability and design-for-quality
- Mentor mid-level and junior Quality Engineers, acting as the quality authority within the team
- Influence platform and architectural decisions from a quality perspective and promote quality ownership across teams
- Partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery leaders on release readiness, identifying quality risks early and proposing mitigation strategies
- Support production issues and root-cause analysis while continuously improving quality processes and tooling
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or Test Automation
- Proven experience acting as a Senior QE or Automation Lead in complex, enterprise-scale platforms
- Hands-on expertise in Playwright at scale and advanced proficiency in JavaScript
- Understanding of frontend and backend architectures along with experience testing REST APIs
- Deep experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of test architecture, test data and environment management
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- English level B2+
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Apache JMeter
- Skills in Cypress
