Role Overview:We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Playwright Automation Architect / Technical Lead to lead the technical discovery, architecture, design, and implementation of a scalable UI automation framework. The candidate must combine strong architecture capabilities with recent hands-on Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript coding experience. This is not a traditional QE management or coordination role.
Key Responsibilities:- Assess the existing web application, automation framework, codebase, reusable components, and test coverage.
- Identify technical debt, automation gaps, scalability concerns, and maintainability challenges.
- Define the target-state Playwright automation architecture and implementation roadmap.
- Design scalable and reusable frameworks using Page Object Model, fixtures, utilities, and common components.
- Define coding standards, test-data approaches, reporting, framework governance, and best practices.
- Establish approaches for parallel execution, cross-browser testing, CI/CD integration, synchronization, and flaky-test management.
- Actively write, review, debug, and optimize Playwright/TypeScript automation code.
- Solve complex automation challenges involving locators, dynamic UI elements, waits, browser contexts, assertions, and end-to-end workflows.
- Lead technical discussions and code reviews across onsite and offshore teams.
- Mentor the automation team and ensure consistent implementation of the target architecture.
Required Skills:- Expert hands-on Microsoft Playwright
- Advanced TypeScript/JavaScript
- Expert web/UI automation
- Automation framework architecture
- Page Object Model and Playwright fixtures
- Locators, assertions, waits, and browser contexts
- Dynamic UI handling and synchronization
- Debugging and flaky-test resolution
- Git and code reviews
- CI/CD integration
- Cross-browser testing
- Strong technical leadership and documentation skills
Qualifications:- 10+ years in Quality Engineering, including strong enterprise web application testing experience
- 4+ years of recent hands-on UI automation experience with Playwright or comparable modern frameworks
