QA Automation Engineer Playwright

Job Description

QA Automation Engineer – Playwright (2+ Years)

Job type: Full-time

About Novetum:

As a QA Automation Engineer, you'll help keep those systems reliable, maintainable, and production-ready as we scale.

We leverage AI-assisted workflows to accelerate testing and development, and you'll help ensure our automated testing ecosystem remains reliable, scalable, and production-ready.

• Own and evolve the Playwright automation framework across web, API, mobile, and backend systems
• Design, review, debug, and maintain automated test suites with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and coverage
• Review and enhance AI-assisted test artifacts and automation workflows to ensure high-quality outcomes
• Build reusable test infrastructure, fixtures, utilities, test data management, and reporting solutions
• Validate APIs, databases (SQL), and end-to-end business workflows
• Manage automated test execution, reporting, and quality gates within AWS CodePipeline and CI/CD environments
• Investigate test failures, regressions, release risks, and production issues, driving root-cause analysis and resolution
• Improve automation coverage, reduce flaky tests, and strengthen overall product quality across multiple applications
• Perform security, vulnerability, reliability, and performance validations to proactively identify risks before release
• Contribute to manual exploratory and regression testing when required
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to support frequent, high-quality releases

• 2+ years of QA Automation experience (candidates with additional experience are encouraged to apply)
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation
• Strong testing fundamentals and understanding of modern quality engineering practices
• Ability to read, debug, maintain, and improve automation code in JavaScript/TypeScript; exposure to Python is preferred
• Experience with API testing, SQL, and end-to-end system validation
• Experience working with AWS CodePipeline or similar CI/CD platforms
• Solid understanding of test reliability, flaky tests, race conditions, debugging, and failure analysis
• Ability to review, refactor, and improve automation frameworks with a focus on scalability and maintainability
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment

• Experience with AWS services
• Exposure to security testing concepts and tools (OWASP, Burp Suite, ZAP, etc.)
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6
• Experience working with AI-assisted development and testing workflows
• Exposure to Java-based applications or automation ecosystems