Senior Automation QA Engineer (Selenium + Playwright)
We’re looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to strengthen our quality engineering efforts across UI and API testing. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with Selenium, Playwright, experienced with Postman, REST Assured, and driven to contribute to framework enhancements, suggest improvements, and champion quality within an Agile setup.
- Design, enhance, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI and API testing using Selenium, Playwright.
- Ability to develop and maintain automation test scripts for Selenium, Playwright in Java, Typescript programming language.
- Develop and execute automated regression, smoke, and functional test suites integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
- Proactively identify gaps, suggest process and framework improvements, and drive adoption of best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define test strategies, improve coverage, and ensure high-quality releases.
- Manage test cases, execution results, and reporting in TestRail.
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, contributing to sprint planning, estimations, and retrospectives.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and help evolve automation standards across teams.
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning within the QA organization.
- Works in a team of QA Professionals within their discipline.
- Communicate daily/weekly goals and monitor and report self-progress.
- Ensure tasks are completed to achieve self-goals.
- Communicate with other departments within LNW to prevent issues from arising and correct existing problems during the development cycle.
- Escalations of any product issues found during testing are properly communicated.
- Own continuous improvement for existing and new test processes and methodologies.
- Responsible for ensuring that proper communication regarding testing is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
- Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, conflict resolution and recognition of the staff to maintain highly motivated and engaged employees.
- Ensures automation is developed through the agreed acceptance criteria.
- Recommends software test methodologies/procedures/tools that provide value.
- Adhere to all current QA Processes.
- Develops new/ maintain tests scripts within the current Test Automation framework.
- Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Estimate, prioritise, planned and coordinate testing activities
- Troubleshooting quality issues and modifying test procedures
- 6–9 years of experience in QA automation and Java, Typescript Programming
- Proven hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright for UI automation.
- Solid experience in API testing using Postman or REST Assured
- Experience integrating automation with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI).
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology and TestRail (or similar test management tools).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Proactive and detail-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
