Software Test Engineer - Automation Testing

Software Test Engineer - Automation

Experience : 4 - 7 Years

Primary Focus :

- Playwright

- MCP

- AI - Assisted Automation

- API Testing

- CI/CD

Role Overview :

We are looking for a hands-on Software Test Engineer - Automation with strong experience in modern test automation. The candidate should have deep expertise in Playwright, practical exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP), and experience using AI - assisted development/testing tools. The role requires an automation - heavy engineer capable of building and maintaining scalable automation across UI, API and CI/CD workflows.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript.

- Build scalable automation using Page Object Model (POM), fixtures, hooks and reusable utilities.

- Develop and maintain automated functional, integration and regression suites.

- Work with advanced Playwright capabilities including network interception, API mocking, parallel execution, retries, traces and cross - browser execution.

- Perform API testing using Postman and integrate API validations into automated workflows.

- Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or equivalent.

- Leverage AI - assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor or equivalent for automation development, debugging, test generation and failure analysis.

- Work with MCP (Model Context Protocol) within AI - assisted testing/engineering workflows.

- Perform database/backend validation using SQL where required.

- Analyse automation failures, identify root causes and continuously improve framework reliability.

Mandatory Skills :

- 4 - 7 years of overall QA / Test Automation experience.

- Minimum 2+ years hands - on production experience with Playwright; 2 - 3 years preferred.

- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript.

- Strong Playwright framework development/maintenance experience.

- Strong understanding of POM, fixtures, hooks, locators, waits, assertions and reusable framework components.

- Practical MCP / Model Context Protocol exposure.

- Hands - on usage of AI - assisted development/testing tools such as Copilot, Claude, Cursor or similar.

- Strong API/Postman testing experience with automation/integration exposure.

- Hands - on experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.

- Candidate should be automation - heavy in recent projects, rather than predominantly manual testing.

Good to Have :

- Selenium/Java

- REST Assured

- Cucumber/BDD

- SQL

- Docker

- JMeter/K6, cloud platforms, BrowserStack/LambdaTest and exposure to RAG/vector - database - based AI testing are advantageous.

Candidate Profile We Want :

We need someone who can confidently explain what they personally built, particularly around Playwright framework architecture, POM, fixtures/hooks, network interception, API/Postman, CI/CD, AI - assisted automation and MCP. Playwright + MCP + AI - assisted automation are particularly important for this position.