Senior Automation Test Engineer - Playwright/Performance Testing
First seen by Alion on Oct 6, 2026.
About the Role :
We are seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to join our team. The role focuses on building robust UI automation frameworks with Playwright and conducting performance testing across applications.
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop and maintain UI automation frameworks using Playwright.
- Create and execute smoke, regression, sanity, and functional automation tests.
- Design and run performance, load, stress, and endurance tests.
- Develop performance scripts with JMeter or similar tools and analyze results.
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and QA teams.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and promote testing best practices.
- Maintain reusable and scalable automation scripts.
Required Qualifications :
- 8+ years of experience in software testing - automation.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Playwright.
- Extensive experience in performance testing using JMeter or equivalent.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python and API testing.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Nice to have :
- Familiarity with Selenium and Page Object Model design.
- Knowledge of SQL and database validation.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Skills
Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Playwright Testing, Performance Testing, Python, API Testing, Java, JMeter, Automation Testing