Senior Automation QA Engineer

Senior Automation QA Engineer – Playwright Focus
Location: Hybrid: Krakow or Dublin, Ireland

Overview
An exciting opportunity for a Senior Automation QA Engineer with a strong focus on Playwright and a passion for modern web automation. This role is ideal for someone with a continuous improvement mindset, strong collaboration skills, and a deep commitment to quality assurance within high-performing tech teams.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright (TypeScript)
• Execute automated tests covering functionality, performance, and security
• Collaborate with developers and product teams to define test requirements and create effective, scalable test plans
• Analyse results, log/track defects, and ensure timely issue resolution with engineering
• Enhance and optimise existing Playwright automation frameworks
• Conduct regression testing to maintain feature integrity
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Keep up-to-date with automation trends and contribute to QA process improvement
• Implement automation strategies across functional, regression, and smoke testing
• Continuously evaluate and improve test coverage and efficiency
• Provide occasional manual testing support for new features
• Mentor and guide Manual QA Engineers towards automation

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar
• 3+ years’ experience in test automation for web applications

• Hands-on experience with Playwright (JavaScript or TypeScript preferred)
• Proficient in at least one language: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Java
• Selenium, Cypress a plus
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• API testing experience using Postman, RestAssured, or similar
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies and Agile/Scrum practices