Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer (UI + API | Playwright | Product-Scale Systems)

Role Overview

We are hiring a hands-on Automation Engineer (3-5 years) to build and scale production-grade test automation frameworks for enterprise mortgage platforms.

This role is not execution-only QA -it requires engineering depth, framework ownership, and system-level thinking. You will design and drive automation architecture across UI, API, and service layers, ensuring reliability of high-volume, workflow-driven financial systems.

You will work closely with engineering teams to enable shift-left quality, continuous testing, and production stability in a cloud-native, microservices environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Working knowledge of Playwright CLI/MCP and a foundational understanding of how AI/LLM models work, to effectively use AI-assisted automation tooling.
• Own and build scalable automation frameworks using Playwright + TypeScript/JavaScript for UI and API layers
• Design modular, reusable, and maintainable automation architecture (POM, fixtures, service abstractions, utilities)
• Automate complex, real-world workflows across mortgage lifecycle:
• Customer onboarding
• Document ingestion & validation
• Underwriting decision flows
• Loan lifecycle events
• Drive automation-first engineering practices:
• Define coding standards, framework design patterns
• Ensure testability during feature design
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines:
• Enable continuous testing and fast feedback loops
• Ensure stable regression execution in pipelines

• Build and maintain:
• UI regression suites
• API automation suites
• Integration/E2E test coverage
• Improve test reliability and execution performance:
• Parallel execution
• Flaky test reduction
• Smart test selection strategies
• Perform deep defect analysis:
• Root cause identification
• Validate fixes at system level
• Collaborate with:
• Backend engineers API testability
• Frontend teams UI stability
• Product teams acceptance criteria clarity
• Mentor junior engineers and drive shift-left quality culture

Technical Skills

Core (Must-Have Depth)

• Strong programming in JavaScript / TypeScript
• Deep hands-on experience with Playwright (mandatory)
• Proven experience building custom automation frameworks (not just using tools)

API & Integration Testing

• Strong experience with REST API testing
• Tools: Playwright API, Rest Assured, Postman, Supertest