Senior Test Automation Engineer JS

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer 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.

Responsibilities

- Drive adoption of shift-left testing practices

- Design and own end-to-end automation strategy using Playwright and JavaScript

- Define automation architecture, patterns and best practices

- Ensure scalable, maintainable and performant test suites

- Establish quality gates within CI/CD pipelines

- Implement and oversee UI, API and integration tests

- Design test strategies for complex user journeys and integrations

- Handle test data management and environment orchestration

- Ensure coverage of non-functional requirements (reliability, usability, performance awareness)

- Lead code reviews for test automation code, eliminate flaky tests and improve test execution reliability

- Mentor mid-level and junior Quality Engineers and act as the quality authority within the team

- Partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery leaders on release readiness, identify quality risks early and support root-cause analysis

Requirements

- 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or Test Automation

- Hands-on expertise in Playwright at scale and advanced proficiency in JavaScript

- Strong understanding of frontend and backend architectures

- Experience testing REST APIs

- Deep experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines

- Solid understanding of test architecture, test data and environment management

- Proven experience acting as a Senior QE or Automation Lead

- Experience in complex, enterprise-scale platforms

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

- English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have

- Familiarity with Apache JMeter

- Knowledge of Cypress