UI Automation Test Engineer

About the job

Senior UI Automation Test Engineer | Playwright | TypeScript/JavaScript

📍 Candidate Location: Tamil Nadu & Kerala candidates only

💼 Employment Type: Full-Time

🧑 💻 Experience: 5–9 Years

We are looking for an experienced Senior UI Automation Test Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of building, maintaining, and improving robust end-to-end test automation frameworks.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript, experience developing automation frameworks from the ground up, and a solid understanding of integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright
• Build comprehensive E2E automated test suites covering critical user journeys and business workflows
• Integrate automated test execution into GitHub Actions / CI/CD pipelines
• Develop and maintain API automation tests using Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools
• Own automation framework maintenance, including refactoring, flaky-test analysis, selector/locator stability, and performance optimization
• Debug complex automation failures across UI, API, environment, and pipeline layers
• Work closely with developers and product teams to promote shift-left testing
• Participate in automation code reviews and contribute to test framework architecture and design decisions
• Continuously improve automation coverage, reliability, maintainability, and execution speed

What We’re Looking For

• 5–9 years of overall QA/Test Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Proven experience building and maintaining E2E automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tools
• Strong experience in API Testing – REST / Postman / REST Assured
• Good knowledge of Git, pull requests, and code-review practices
• Excellent debugging and root-cause analysis capabilities
• Strong communication and ability to collaborate closely with engineering and product teams

Good to Have

Experience with Cypress/Selenium, Docker, cloud-based CI environments, visual regression testing, Allure/ReportPortal, Azure/AWS, or mentoring junior QA engineers would be an advantage.

Who Would Be a Great Fit?

We’re looking for someone who goes beyond simply writing automation scripts — an engineer who can own the automation framework, troubleshoot complex failures, improve test architecture, and make automated testing an integral part of the software delivery pipeline