Playwright selenium

Role & responsibilities

Job Description Playwright + Selenium Automation Tester

Position: Automation Test Engineer / SDETExperience: 4–6 YearsJob SummaryWe are looking for an experienced Automation Test Engineer / SDET with 4–6 years of experience in web application automation. The candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Playwright and Selenium WebDriver, with experience developing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, executing functional/regression testing, and integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines.Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright and Selenium.
• Build and enhance automation frameworks for web applications.
• Develop reusable test components, utilities, page objects, and test-data handling mechanisms.
• Create and execute functional, regression, smoke, and cross-browser automation suites.
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot automation failures and flaky tests.
• Implement effective synchronization and reliable locator strategies.
• Execute tests across multiple browsers and environments.
• Maintain test scripts as application functionality and UI components evolve.
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with developers, QA engineers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve defects.
• Participate in test planning, test case design, defect tracking, and release validation.
• Generate and maintain automation execution reports and failure evidence.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of automation frameworks and testing practices.

Playwright provides a test runner with auto-waiting, assertions, tracing, browser isolation, and parallel execution across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Selenium WebDriver provides browser automation APIs, while Selenium Grid supports execution across different machines and browser/OS combinations.Required Skills

• 4–6 years of experience in software testing/automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver / Selenium 4.
• Good programming experience in any one of:
• Java
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Python
• Experience with automation frameworks such as:
• Playwright Test
• TestNG
• JUnit
• PyTest
• Strong knowledge of Web/UI automation.
• Experience with XPath, CSS selectors, and modern locator strategies.
• Knowledge of waits, synchronization, browser handling, frames, windows, alerts, and dynamic elements.
• Experience with Git and source-code management.
• Good understanding of CI/CD and tools such as Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions.
• Experience with cross-browser testing.
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have

• API testing experience using REST/HTTP.
• Experience with Postman or similar API tools.
• Selenium Grid / distributed execution.
• Docker/cloud-based browser execution.
• Performance or accessibility testing exposure.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Strong knowledge of Page Object Model and framework design.

Playwright-Specific Expectations

• Playwright locators such as getByRole, getByText, getByLabel, and getByTestId.
• Browser/context/page handling.
• Auto-waiting and web-first assertions.
• Fixtures and hooks.
• Parallel execution.
• Screenshots, videos, and trace-based debugging.
• Test tagging and selective execution.
• Cross-browser execution.

Playwright recommends user-facing and explicit locators such as role, label, text, and test-id based locators for resilient automation.Selenium-Specific Expectations

• Selenium WebDriver.
• Selenium 4.
• XPath/CSS locator strategies.
• Explicit and implicit waits.
• Handling frames, windows, alerts, and dynamic elements.
• Page Object Model.
• Selenium Grid and parallel execution.
• Browser configuration and capabilities.

Preferred candidate profile