Senior Playwright Automation Architect / Technical Lead
q1 technologiesAurora (IL)
Senior Playwright Automation Architect / Technical Lead
Posted 9 days ago
q1 technologiesAurora (IL)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Job Description Job Description Job Description: Bill Rate: $ 60 - $62 Location: ONSITE- Phoenix, AZ Duration: 6 month Role Title: Senior Playwright Automation Architect / Technical Lead Description: "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. Mandatory Skills Expert hands-on Microsoft Playwright Advanced TypeScript/JavaScript Expert web/UI automation" SKILLS_REQUIRED 10 years in Quality Engineering, including strong enterprise web application testing experience and 4 years of recent hands-on UI automation experience with Playwright or comparable modern frameworks EXPERIENCE_RANGE_IN_REQUIRED_SKILLS 5-6 Years Role Descriptions: 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. Mandatory SkillsExpert hands-on Microsoft PlaywrightAdvanced TypeScript/JavaScriptExpert web/UI automationAutomation framework architecturePage Object Model and Playwright fixturesLocators assertions waits and browser contextsDynamic UI handling and synchronizationDebugging and flaky-test resolutionGit and code reviewsCI/CD integrationCross-browser testingStrong technical leadership and documentation skills Essential Skills: 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. Mandatory SkillsExpert hands-on Microsoft PlaywrightAdvanced TypeScript/JavaScriptExpert web/UI automationAutomation framework architecturePage Object Model and Playwright fixturesLocators assertions waits and browser contextsDynamic UI handling and synchronizationDebugging and flaky-test resolutionGit and code reviewsCI/CD integrationCross-browser testingStrong technical leadership and documentation skills Desirable Skills: Keyword: Skills: Playwright Experience Required:
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