Senior QA Engineer with Playwright - Only W2

Role: Senior QA Engineer with Playwright

Remote (USA / Canada) - Candidates can be either in USA or Canada

Job Type: W2 Contract

Responsibilities:

• Verify completed work against acceptance criteria, design intent, and expected behavior, including adjacent regression risk areas.

• Own the staging release process-determine readiness, execute releases, and return failed items with clear reproduction details.

• Run, triage, and maintain Playwright, unit, and integration test suites to ensure continuous coverage and reliability.

• Diagnose and repair flaky or outdated tests, identifying gaps, duplicates, and inaccurate test-plan status.

• Document defects in Linear with reproduction steps, severity, environment details, and expected versus actual behavior.

• Provide Product stakeholders with concise release candidate summaries and contribute actively to standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Requirements:

• Strong product judgment with the ability to identify gaps between technically passing implementations and intended outcomes.

• Strong Playwright skills including running, debugging, repairing end-to-end tests, and diagnosing flaky behavior.

• Working knowledge of Next.js, React, TypeScript, browser developer tools, and application logs.

• Proficiency with AI-assisted QA or development tools such as Claude, Claude Code, or equivalent.

• Clear written communication for defect documentation and release candidate summaries.

• Experience owning a staging promotion or release process, ideally with GitHub Actions CI/CD. (Optional)