PLAYWRIGHT TESTING - JL5

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## **Job Description:** - You will be leading the quality engineering efforts for complex large scale API ecosystems ensuring that every service we ship is reliable secure and performs at scale - In this role you will guide teams on best practices in REST API design and testing champion automation and help shape a culture where quality is everyone s responsibility - You ll collaborate closely with architects developers product managers and DevOps engineers to build robust test strategies that keep pace with modern cloud native delivery - This is an opportunity to influence technical direction mentor engineers and introduce smarter ways of working using automation metrics and continuous improvement - If you enjoy solving intricate integration challenges designing scalable API test frameworks and leading teams toward engineering excellence this role gives you the platform to make a visible impact while growing as a technology leader ## **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead end to end quality engineering for REST APIs from requirements analysis to production validation for 5 9 years scale projects - Design implement and maintain robust API test strategies covering functional integration contract regression and negative testing - Drive API test automation frameworks and suites ensuring high coverage reliability and maintainability across services and microservices - Collaborate with architects and developers to review API specifications e - g - Swagger OpenAPI ensuring testability consistency and adherence to standards - Define and enforce best practices for API testing automation and quality gates within CI CD pipelines - Analyze complex defects and production issues perform root cause analysis and work with cross functional teams to implement long term fixes - Mentor and guide junior QA automation engineers on API testing techniques tools and automation patterns - Establish and track quality metrics defect trends coverage stability performance signals to continuously improve product quality and team processes - Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements clarify acceptance criteria and ensure test scenarios reflect real world usage - Ensure proper test data management and environment readiness for API testing across different stages dev QA staging UAT ## **Technical Requirements:** - Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field - 5 9 years of hands on experience in REST API and API Testing in enterprise or product based environments - Strong expertise in designing and executing API test cases including functional integration and regression testing for RESTful services - Proven experience in leading or owning quality for API centric projects working closely with development and product teams - Solid understanding of HTTP REST principles request response structures status codes and common authentication mechanisms - API design review Contract testing Performance testing CI CD integration Agile methodologies Good to have skills ## **Additional Responsibilities:** - Preferred Qualifications - Extensive experience in API test automation including building and maintaining automation suites for REST APIs - Demonstrated ability to define test strategies test plans and quality processes for complex distributed systems - Experience integrating automated API tests into CI CD pipelines and working in Agile Scrum environments - Strong background in overall Testing practices including test design techniques risk based testing and regression optimization - Proven track record of leading small to medium QA automation teams providing technical guidance and code reviews for test assets - Experience collaborating with cross functional stakeholders to prioritize defects manage releases and ensure smooth production rollouts - Ability to analyze logs traces and API responses to quickly diagnose issues and support root cause analysis - Exposure to performance reliability or security validation of APIs working alongside specialized teams where needed ## **Preferred Skills:** Technology->Agile Testing->Agile Testing - ALL->CD/CI,Technology->API Testing->RestAssured,Technology->Automated Testing->Playwright Javascript,Technology->Automated Testing->Playwright Typescript