Senior Automation Engineer

Job Description: Senior Automation Engineer Overview Owns and evolves the Playwright-based end-to-end test suite in this repository. Responsible for test architecture, framework health, CI/CD pipeline stability, and ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, accessibility, performance, integration and visual regression testing. Works closely with the Lead QA and team engineers to keep automation and general testing aligned with product changes in Arc. Core Responsibilities Own the Playwright framework Develop and maintain test suites Manage CI/CD Expand coverage Triage and debugging Performance no functional tests

Required Skills & Experience Automation & Testing 4+ years with Playwright (or equivalent: Cypress, WebdriverIO) in a TypeScript project Strong command of Page Object Model and fixture-based test design Experience writing and maintaining visual regression tests (screenshot diffing, snapshot management across OS platforms) Accessibility testing with WCAG 2.1 AA standards Nice to Have Experience with Storybook visual testing or component-level accessibility checks Familiarity with Vercel preview deployments and deployment protection bypass patterns API testing experience (REST or GraphQL) to complement UI tests with contract validation Knowledge of Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Shopify APIs at a conceptual level Jest/Testing Library for unit/integration test coverage of arc-ui components

Location: Pune Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent