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Our areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.\nAt Codal, you will collaborate with some of the most innovative organizations in the world and work on cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of design and software development. We promote long-term success, not just for our clients but for our team, helping you develop a professional roadmap that takes your career to new heights.\nExperience Range\nOverall experience: 5+ years\nTech Stack experience: Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript\nLeadership experience: 2+ years (Nice-to-have) \nJob Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat (WFO)\nWho you’ll be working with\nWe build the solutions dreamed up by the product and design teams. Our goal is to deliver working software every two weeks. We are a large team spanning three global offices, and we collaborate to integrate front- and back-end components and interfaces to deliver a user-centered experience across web and mobile platforms.\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\nQuality Engineering\nPartner with engineering and product teams to understand business workflows, system architecture, integrations, and technical dependencies.\nIndependently identify quality risks and define an appropriate testing and automation strategy.\nArchitect Scalable Automation Solutions. Design, develop, maintain, and continuously improve reliable automation frameworks and reusable test utilities for modern web applications, APIs, backend services, and integrated systems using technologies such as Playwright, TypeScript, and Python.\nBuild the appropriate balance of API, integration, component, contract, data, and end-to-end automation, minimizing unnecessary dependence on UI-level testing.\nParticipate in discovery, requirements refinement, technical design, and architecture discussions to identify edge cases, dependencies, testability concerns, and potential failure scenarios before development is complete.\nIntegrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish effective quality gates.\nOptimize execution through parallelization, tagging, test selection, environment management, reporting, and failure diagnostics.\nDesign robust API and integration validation for RESTful services and backend workflows, including request/response validation, authentication, error handling, service dependencies, and asynchronous processes.\nValidate data across databases, APIs, files, and integrated systems using SQL and programmatic approaches. Verify data integrity, transformations, reconciliation, and complex backend processing when required.\nInvestigate failures using application logs, browser developer tools, network traces, API clients, database queries, and application telemetry. Distinguish between product defects, automation failures, test-data issues, infrastructure problems, and environment instability.\nUse AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate test design, coding, debugging, documentation, and analysis while critically reviewing generated solutions and maintaining engineering standards.\nWhat you’ll need to be successful (Requirements)\nMust have skills:\nExperience: 5+ years of experience as an SDET, Software Engineer, Quality Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, or similar engineering role.\nProgramming: Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python, with experience building maintainable solutions and working with existing codebases.\nTest Automation: Strong experience building and maintaining automation frameworks for web applications and APIs, with hands-on Playwright experience strongly preferred.\nAPI & Backend Testing: Strong experience testing REST APIs, backend workflows, service integrations, and databases, with good SQL skills.\nTesting Fundamentals: Strong understanding of unit, component, API, integration, contract, data, and end-to-end testing, with the ability to select the right approach based on risk.\nCI/CD: Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and implementing automated quality gates.\nDebugging & Problem Solving: Strong debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.\nVersion Control: Strong knowledge of Git, branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative software development practices.\nShould have skills:\nQuality Ownership: Ability to independently own quality for a product area, proactively identify risks, drive issues to resolution, and influence engineering decisions.\nTest Architecture: Experience designing scalable test architectures and selecting the appropriate balance of API, integration, component, contract, data, and end-to-end testing.\nComplex Systems: Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, complex integrations, and backend workflows.\nDatabase & Data Validation: Experience validating data across databases, APIs, files, and integrated systems using SQL and programmatic approaches.\nAdvanced Automation: Experience developing complex, reusable, and scalable automation frameworks and test utilities.\nNice-to-have skills:\nAI-Assisted Engineering: Experience using AI-assisted development and testing tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude.\nMCP & Agentic Workflows: Hands-on experience with MCP-based tooling, agentic workflows, or AI-driven engineering practices.\nPerformance Testing: Experience with performance, load, scalability, or resilience testing.\nObservability: Experience with application logs, distributed tracing, monitoring, telemetry, and observability platforms.\nCloud: Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-native applications.\nNeed another reason to hit the “apply” button?\nCodal is a global agency with over 250 employees and offices in the US, UK, Canada, and India \nWe are a BigCommerce Partner and have won the Partner of the Year award twice (most recently this past year).\nWe regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work.\nCompany-sponsored lunch every Wednesday.\nHealth Insurance: Comprehensive medical coverage for employees and their dependents\nMaternity/Paternity Leave: Additional time off and support for new parents\nProfessional Development: Opportunities for training, workshops, and conferences to enhance employees' skills and knowledge\nAccidental Insurance\nNote: Codal only communicates with candidates through official @codal.com email addresses. We never request payment during the hiring process. Please be vigilant regarding recruitment scams.\nAt Codal, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. 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