Senior Test Automation Engineer - Playwright

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright and JavaScript-based test automation. The role involves designing and maintaining robust automation frameworks for modern web applications, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability across releases.

Requirements

Job Description

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright and JavaScript-based test automation. The role involves designing and maintaining robust automation frameworks for modern web applications, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability across releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI and API test suites using Playwright
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code using JavaScript
• Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams throughout the SDLC
• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines
• Analyse test failures, identify root causes, and drive quality improvements
• Ensure best practices in automation, test coverage, and reporting
• Actively contribute to improving QA standards, processes, and tooling

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 7–12 years of experience in Test Automation / Quality Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright
• Excellent proficiency in JavaScript
• Experience in UI and API test automation
• Solid understanding of test automation frameworks, test design patterns, and reporting
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Good to Have

• Advanced experience with JavaScript-based automation frameworks
• Exposure to Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) will be an added advantage
• Exposure to cloud-based applications
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
• Knowledge of performance or security testing

Location & Work Model

• Base location: Chennai
• Candidates should be willing to work from the Chennai location as per business requirements

Benefits

We Offer

• Flexible working hours (self-managed)
• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus, subject to company performance
• Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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