Automation Engineer

Job Title: Automation Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain a scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript/JavaScript, applying Page Object Model or equivalent design patterns for reusability and maintainability.
• Develop end-to-end UI automation suites covering critical business workflows, regression scenarios, and smoke tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
• Write resilient locators using Playwright's role-based and test-id strategies, leveraging auto-waiting and web-first assertions to eliminate hard waits and reduce flakiness.
• Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and test utilities; manage authentication state via storageState to avoid redundant login flows.
• Implement API test automation using Playwright's request fixture for service-layer validation and test data setup/teardown.
• Implement network interception and mocking (page.route) to isolate the UI from unstable downstream dependencies and to test error and edge-case states.

Required Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3 6 years of hands-on test automation experience, including 2+ years with Playwright building and maintaining production automation frameworks.
• Strong programming proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript (Java Playwright bindings acceptable depending on stack).
• Demonstrated experience architecting automation frameworks from scratch - not just writing scripts in an existing one.
• Solid understanding of Playwright core concepts: locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, projects, parallelism, retries, tracing, and configuration.
• Proficiency with API testing - REST, JSON payloads, status code and schema validation (Playwright request, Postman, or REST Assured).
• Hands-on CI/CD integration experience with at least one of GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
• Strong Git skills - branching, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, code review participation.
• Working SQL knowledge for test data setup and backend validation.
• Solid grasp of QA fundamentals: test design techniques, boundary and equivalence analysis, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based delivery.
• Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills; ability to investigate failures across UI, API, and data layers.
• Clear written and verbal communication - able to explain quality risk to non-technical stakeholders.

Top 3 Skills Required:

• Automation testing experience.
• Playwright automation testing.
• Typescript, Javascript, xPath, resource locators etc.

Additional Information:

Build and deliver automation test suites using Playwright framework, Healthcare experience, Member portal experience, Selenium, Javascript automation testing experience.