Senior QA Automation Engineer Playwright | Java + Playwright

Senior QA Automation Engineer Playwright | Banking & KYC

Experience: 5+ Years
Role: Senior QA / QA Automation Engineer
Domain: Banking / Financial Services Client Onboarding & KYC
Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of software testing experience to work on a large-scale banking Client Onboarding and KYC platform.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation, preferably using Java, along with a good understanding of banking workflows, particularly Client Onboarding, KYC, AML, and Financial Crime Compliance.

The candidate will be responsible for functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and automation testing across complex workflows involving multiple upstream and downstream systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites using Playwright.
• Develop and enhance automation frameworks, preferably using Java + Playwright.
• Automate complex end-to-end Client Onboarding and KYC workflows.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Validate workflows involving multiple interconnected applications and backend systems.
• Perform API testing and backend/data validation where required.
• Validate data movement across upstream and downstream systems.
• Perform database validation using SQL.
• Investigate automation failures and distinguish application defects from framework/environment issues.
• Execute automated regression suites through CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze pipeline failures, logs, screenshots, traces, and other test artifacts.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other QA engineers.
• Participate in defect triage and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain high-quality automation code using appropriate coding and framework design practices.
• Contribute to improving test coverage, execution time, stability, and parallel execution of automation suites.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• 5+ years of overall QA/testing experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Strong programming experience, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining UI automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of:
• Page Object Model (POM)
• Locators and selectors
• Assertions
• Wait strategies
• Browser contexts
• Parallel execution
• Test data management
• Screenshots, tracing, and debugging
• Experience with TestNG/JUnit or similar test frameworks.
• Good knowledge of REST API testing.
• Experience with tools such as Postman and/or REST Assured.
• Good SQL knowledge and experience performing database validations.
• Experience with Git and source-control workflows.
• Experience executing automated tests through CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Ability to troubleshoot flaky tests, synchronization issues, browser/session problems, and parallel execution failures.

Mandatory Banking/KYC Domain Knowledge

The candidate must have practical experience working on Banking or Financial Services applications, preferably Client Onboarding/KYC platforms.

The candidate should understand how KYC information flows between different systems and how approval, validation, exception, and compliance workflows operate within a large financial institution.

Candidate Expectations

We are specifically looking for someone who is hands-on, rather than someone whose recent experience has primarily been coordination or test management.

The candidate should be comfortable:

• Writing Playwright automation code independently.
• Debugging an existing automation framework.
• Understanding complex business workflows.
• Writing SQL queries for validation.
• Testing APIs independently.
• Investigating CI/CD failures.
• Discussing KYC scenarios with business stakeholders.
• Identifying edge cases rather than relying solely on documented test cases.