Senior Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of test automation from start to finish.

• Develop and sustain Playwright regression suites for search, company and people views, lists, signals, credits, sign-up processes, and CRM workflows.

• Manage page object patterns, parallel execution, and test retries.

• Execute Checkly production synthetic monitoring, setting up alerts and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Establish CI/CD quality gates for preview and staging deployments while analyzing failures.

• Oversee test data management to ensure isolation and repeatability.

• Troubleshoot flaky tests to identify root causes and enhance suite reliability and performance.

• Conduct testing for REST APIs, authentication, role-based access control, and integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics, Pipedrive, and the Chrome extension.

• Transform rough testing notes into well-organized test cases and take responsibility for test strategy and coverage decisions.

• Lead AI-assisted testing utilizing Browser Use, Stagehand, Playwright MCP, or comparable frameworks.

• Collaborate with LLM-generated test cases derived from specifications.

• Utilize Claude Code or Cursor to generate, maintain, and review test specifications.

• Distribute regression reports to engineers and product managers.

• Champion quality and work closely with engineers and product teams during specification and pull-request phases.

• Collaborate intimately with the engineering team in Melbourne, representing the voice of quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in test automation using Playwright.

• Proven experience with Playwright in a production environment using TypeScript or JavaScript.

• Strong skills in test design, including page objects, test strategy, parallel execution, and retries.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve the root causes of flaky tests.

• Experience with REST API testing.

• Proficient in testing authentication and role-based access control.

• Familiarity with integrating test suites into CI/CD, including GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Experience in establishing quality gates.

• Practical experience in generating, running, maintaining, or triaging AI-assisted tests.

• Regular use of AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor, with a critical review of the outputs.

• Excellent written communication skills for creating bug and test reports.

• Confidence to push back on releases when actual risks are identified.

• Comfortable working asynchronously with a team based in Australia.

• Possess a product mindset with a focus on risk-based prioritization.

• Daily application of AI for writing test specifications, generating tests, debugging test failures, and maintaining tests.

• Highly regarded: Experience with Checkly or similar synthetic monitoring, Chrome extension or complex CRM integration testing, Browser Use/Stagehand/Playwright MCP or similar frameworks, k6 or similar performance testing, visual regression testing, Postgres/Supabase, and background in B2B SaaS or data products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work fully remotely.

• Enjoy flexible working hours.

• Opportunity for advancement into quality architecture, test strategy roles, or to lead a growing testing team.

• Career growth based on performance rather than tenure.