Senior Playwright QA Engineer :: Remote :: W2 Position

Position: Senior Playwright QA Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 5 Months – Strong possibility of extension

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Playwright QA Engineer to join a sprint team and take ownership of product quality, release readiness, staging releases, and test automation.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Playwright, excellent QA/product judgment, and the ability to identify gaps between technically passing implementations and the intended user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate completed work against acceptance criteria, design intent, and expected behavior.
• Identify adjacent regression risks and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Own the staging release process, including determining release readiness and executing promotions.
• Run, triage, debug, and maintain Playwright, unit, and integration test suites.
• Diagnose and repair flaky, outdated, duplicate, or unreliable automated tests.
• Identify test coverage gaps and maintain accurate test-plan status.
• Document defects in Linear with clear reproduction steps, severity, environment details, expected behavior, and actual results.
• Provide Product stakeholders with concise release candidate summaries.
• Actively participate in standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.
• Partner closely with developers and Product stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and end-to-end test automation.
• Ability to run, debug, repair, and maintain Playwright test suites.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving flaky tests.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, regression testing, and release validation.
• Working knowledge of:
• Next.js
• React
• TypeScript
• Browser Developer Tools
• Application logs
• Experience using AI-assisted QA/development tools, such as Claude, Claude Code, or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent defect documentation and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong product judgment with the ability to evaluate functionality beyond simply whether tests pass.

Preferred Skills

• Experience owning a staging promotion/release process.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum sprint teams.
• Experience with unit and integration testing.