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You will design and grow Playwright automation and the tooling around it, and you will use AI across the quality lifecycle: requirements analysis, test authoring, coverage review, debugging, and reporting. You will also own functional quality for your assigned applications. That includes manual and exploratory testing when human judgment is the better instrument. Automation and AI take the repeatable work so your manual effort goes where it adds the most value. You will work on applications that support ICE financial-markets infrastructure. A miss here is not cosmetic: defects can affect trading, clearing, data integrity, or regulatory evidence. We need someone who tests with that risk in mind. This is a hands-on Senior individual contributor role. You will influence design through code, reviews, and pairing. You will not manage people, and you will not be the sole owner of the organization-wide framework.\nResponsibilities\nTest automationDesign, build, and maintain Playwright automation across UI, API, and integration layers.\nEvolve the shared framework: page and component abstractions, fixtures, test data, environment configuration, CI/CD integration, and reporting.\nApply automation standards and design patterns that keep suites fast, reliable, and readable.\nReduce flakiness and improve execution speed through metrics and root-cause analysis.\nRun automated suites in CI/CD and partner with DevOps on environments and pipeline reliability.\n\nAI-enabled quality workflowUse AI coding agents in your daily workflow to accelerate automation authoring, refactoring, debugging, and maintenance.\nUse AI tooling to review requirements for ambiguities, missing edge cases, and untestable criteria before development begins.\nGenerate test cases from requirements, then refine, consolidate, and prioritize them with engineering judgment. You own the final suite, not the model.\nFind coverage gaps, duplicate effort, and weak assertions in existing suites.\nAdopt and extend AI tooling where it pays off. Building custom agent skills or MCP servers is a plus, not the core of the job.\n\nFunctional test ownershipOwn functional coverage and test strategy for assigned applications across UI, services, and integration points.\nDecide what to automate and what to keep manual based on risk, stability, execution frequency, and maintenance cost. Expect a mix of automation and exploratory work, weighted toward automation once a flow is stable.\nPerform manual, exploratory, and scenario-based testing where human judgment matters most.\nTriage, reproduce, and document defects, and drive them to resolution.\nProvide evidence-based release readiness to engineering and product leadership.\nProduce clear reporting on coverage, execution results, defect trends, and release risk.\n\nTechnical influenceRaise the quality of automation through code review and pairing with QA engineers.\nShare practical patterns for automation, AI-assisted testing, and when manual testing is still the better approach.\nPartner with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps to move quality work earlier in the delivery cycle.\n\nWhat you will work withPlaywright, TypeScript or JavaScript, Node, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.\nAI coding agents used as part of normal engineering work.\nJira and Xray (or equivalent) for defects, plans, and execution evidence.\nAPI testing against REST and, where present, GraphQL.\n\nKnowledge and Experience\n7+ years in software quality engineering or SDET roles, including 5+ years of hands-on test automation.\nHands-on experience with Playwright or a comparable modern E2E framework (Cypress, WebdriverIO, or similar), including suite structure, test data, and CI execution-not only recording or copying tests.\nStrong TypeScript or JavaScript and sound software engineering fundamentals: modular design, version control, code review, and refactoring.\nApplied experience using AI-assisted engineering tools in a routine workflow (coding agents, AI-assisted test authoring, or AI-supported requirements and code analysis).\nAPI test automation experience across REST or GraphQL.\nExperience contributing to a test automation framework and integrating automated tests into CI/CD.\nStrong functional testing foundation: test design techniques, risk-based prioritization, boundary and negative testing, and structured exploratory testing.\nWorking knowledge of Jira, Xray, or equivalent defect and test management tools.\nClear written and verbal communication. 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