Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)

About the Position

ELEKS Quality Assurance Office is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) in Poland or Ukraine.

Our client is a major insurance/reinsurance solutions provider, and this is a high-visibility engagement. This role covers the frontend portion of an AI-native development stream - the team is expected to actively use AI tools to optimize development and demonstrate this expertise to the client. The team works in Scrum, with part of the technical team based in the US and the Product Owner in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript
• Develop and execute automated tests covering both UI and API layers
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate test case creation, automation development, code review, and defect analysis
• Build reusable automation components for functional, integration, regression, and E2E testing
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and development teams to define test strategy and quality objectives
• Analyze test results and report on defects, risks, quality trends, and coverage
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives)

Requirements

• 7+ years of QA/test automation experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Playwright
• Strong expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, solid understanding of OOP and design patterns
• Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience with both UI and API test automation (REST, JSON, integration testing)
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) - work management, test planning, pipeline integrations
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Solid Git skills, including branching strategies
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude) - or strong motivation to learn and adopt them
• Basic to intermediate SQL
• Upper-Intermediate English

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms and microservices/distributed systems testing
• Performance, accessibility, or security testing experience
• Insurance, Reinsurance, or Financial Services background

We Offer

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Challenging tasks
• Competence development
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy

About the Company

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.

Recruiter Contacts

Tetyana Slyusarchuk

[email protected]