QA Engineer - Playwright and C# exp - Hybrid - Plano, TX - W2

We are seeking a skilled Senior QA Engineer to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will lead quality assurance initiatives across web applications and web services. You will be responsible for traditional manual/API testing, backend data verification, and building modern, reliable automated test suites.

The ideal candidate blends strong foundational QA practices with modern automation expertise, possesses object-oriented coding skills, and is adept at utilizing AI-assisted tools to optimize the testing lifecycle.

• Test Strategy & Execution: Plan, design, and execute end-to-end testing for web applications and backend web services across cross-platform environments (Windows and Linux).
• API & Web Services Testing: Perform thorough web services testing using *SoapUI* to validate REST and SOAP APIs.
• Data Verification: Write and execute database queries (SQL) to validate backend data consistency, migration, and business logic implementation against UI test results.
• Test Automation: Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test scripts for web applications using *Playwright*.
• CI/CD & Version Control: Integrate automated test suites into existing *CI/CD pipelines* to enable continuous testing; manage code repos efficiently using *Git*.
• AI-Assisted Engineering: Utilize precise AI prompting to accelerate test scenario creation and code writing, while taking full ownership of reviewing, debugging, and correcting AI-generated code for production readiness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with developers working in *.NET / Object-Oriented frameworks* to identify bugs early in the lifecycle.