SDET – Playwright / TypeScript /Appium

Project Mandate

• Understand and rationalize legacy/manual test suites
• Ensure stable CI execution with reporting and traceability
• Improve regression execution speed through Playwright parallelism

Key Responsibilities

1. Manual Automation Migration

• Analyze and understand legacy manual test cases (test steps, data, expected outcomes)
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, and missing dependencies early
• Convert prioritized test cases into Playwright automation aligned to agreed standards
• Support test case rationalization: remove duplicates, improve clarity, tag critical coverage

2. Playwright Automation Development

• Develop clean, maintainable Playwright automation scripts using TypeScript.
• Implement robust locator strategies (data-testid, role selectors, stable DOM strategy)
• Leverage Playwright capabilities:
  • auto-waiting, trace viewer, screenshots/video
  • parallel execution, sharding, tagging
  • network interception (where required)

3. API Testing & Data Validation

• Build and maintain API automation tests using:
  • RestAssured (Java) and/or Playwright API Request context
  • Postman (for quick validations)
• Validate data integrity and end-to-end flows across UI + API (where applicable)

4. CI/CD & Reporting

• Integrate test execution into CI/CD pipelines:
  • Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
• Maintain execution reports:
  • Allure / Playwright HTML reports / Extent reports
• Perform RCA for failures and reduce flakiness through engineering improvements

5. Delivery Governance (Fixed Bid Mindset)

• Work with leads to follow:
  • estimation, burn down tracking, velocity management
  • change control when test scope expands
• Maintain documentation required for handover:
  • automation coverage, known gaps, execution guide

Required Skills (Must Have)Playwright (Critical)

• Strong hands-on Playwright implementation experience
• Solid knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript (preferred) or Java-based Playwright
• Expertise in writing stable UI tests:
  • locators, auto-waits, assertions
  • retries (used responsibly)
  • handling dynamic elements, iframe, new tabs, downloads

Selenium WebDriver with Java

• Selenium WebDriver with Java (legacy understanding helps migration)

Appium Experience

• Appium experience

Automation Engineering Fundamentals

• Understanding of framework patterns:
  • Page Object Model / fixtures-based approach
  • data-driven strategies
  • reusable utilities (auth, common flows, assertions)
• Strong debugging skills:
  • logs, traces, screenshots/video interpretation

CI/CD + Tools

• Jenkins / GitHub Actions (pipeline execution, triggers, artifacts)
• Git (branching, pull requests, code reviews)

API Testing

• RestAssured and/or Playwright API
• Postman for validations
• Strong understanding of request/response validation

Good to Have

• Docker / Selenium Grid / containerized execution
• SQL skills for backend validations
• Test management tools: Jira + Zephyr/Xray/TestRail
• Regulated domain maturity (healthcare/fintech): audit trails, PII/PHI awareness

Process Requirements

• Strong Agile delivery experience (Scrum ceremonies)
• Ability to create/update structured test documentation and maintain traceability