Senior Automation Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain automated browser-based regression tests utilizing Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js.

• Create and uphold the regression test inventory within Azure DevOps Test Plans, encompassing test cases, suites, and suitable traceability.

• Identify high-impact automation candidates based on repeatability, critical business needs, and the potential to decrease regression execution time.

• Generate automated Playwright tests with the aid of GitHub Copilot, Playwright CodeGen, and Playwright MCP, then refine the generated output into dependable, maintainable automation.

• Set up automated execution and reporting, including the publication of results to Azure DevOps and maintaining traceability to the corresponding test cases.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring they remain stable, fast, and exhibit low flakiness.

• Investigate test failures, log defects with clear reproduction steps, and collaborate with developers and QA teams to resolve issues.

• Assess the need for and, when beneficial, implement an Azure DevOps MCP Server to connect AI tools to test plans and work items.

• Document frameworks, conventions, and runbooks to enable the team to maintain the suite post-contract.

• Review, organize, and prioritize existing manual regression tests for automation opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of practical test automation experience as an individual contributor.

• Extensive experience with Playwright using JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js.

• Proven track record in developing maintainable test automation through reusable components, fixtures, locators, assertions, and suitable test design patterns.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps Test Plans, including managing test cases, test suites, test runs, and results.

• Experience in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, particularly Azure DevOps Pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot in daily test development tasks.

• Proficient in reviewing and translating existing manual test documentation into structured test cases and executable automation.

• Ability to evaluate regression test coverage, identify redundancies and gaps, and prioritize automation based on business significance and execution effort.

• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies: regression, smoke, end-to-end strategy, and defect triage.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capability to work independently.

• Experience with Playwright CodeGen and Playwright MCP for AI-assisted test generation.

• Practical experience with an Azure DevOps MCP Server, or a willingness to assess one.

• Familiarity with linking Playwright results to Azure DevOps Test Plans, including tools such as playwright-azure-reporter.

• Experience in establishing or enhancing a test automation framework during a short-term engagement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Possibility of contract extension.

• Competitive hourly compensation.

• Relaxed and casual work environment.

• Opportunity to collaborate with great colleagues daily.