Tester III - Software Testing- Automation, Playwright, Typescript, API

• *Role description**

• *Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright \+ TypeScript \+ API Automation)**

Experience Required

• **5\+ years** of QA Automation experience
• **3\+ years** of hands\-on experience with **Playwright** and **TypeScript**
• Proven experience in **API Testing and Automation**

• *Mandatory Skills**
• Strong hands\-on experience with **Playwright**
• Strong programming expertise in **TypeScript**
• Strong experience in **API Testing and Automation**
• Experience automating REST APIs using tools/frameworks such as Playwright API Testing, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or equivalent
• Experience validating API contracts, request/response payloads, authentication mechanisms, and service integrations
• Experience creating automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience maintaining and enhancing existing automation frameworks
• Strong Web UI automation expertise
• Test design, execution, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Git\-based source control experience
• CI/CD integration experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of automation reporting and dashboarding solutions
• Working knowledge of JSON, API specifications, and integration testing concepts

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced **Senior QA Automation Engineer** who can take end\-to\-end ownership of test automation initiatives. The ideal candidate will rapidly understand existing automation frameworks and assets, identify automation gaps, and design, build, and execute scalable automation solutions across both **UI and API layers**.

This role requires a proactive, self\-driven professional who can work independently, collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and deliver measurable outcomes during discovery, planning, and execution phases.

Key Responsibilities

1\. Automation Strategy \& Framework Ownership

• Understand application functionality and business workflows from a functional perspective.
• Define and implement an automation strategy leveraging **Playwright, TypeScript, and API automation frameworks**.
• Analyse, assess, and enhance existing automation frameworks, scripts, and test assets.
• Stabilise and optimise existing automation solutions across UI and API layers.
• Design and build robust automation frameworks from scratch where required.
• Establish automation standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
• Own the automation roadmap and execution strategy for assigned workstreams.

2\. Test Automation Development

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using **Playwright and TypeScript**.
• Design and implement **API automation tests** for RESTful and integrated services.
• Automate end\-to\-end business workflows across web applications and backend services.
• Create and maintain:

+ Smoke Test Suites

+ Regression Test Suites

+ Critical Business Flow Test Packs

+ API Regression Test Suites

• Ensure automation solutions are scalable, reusable, and maintainable.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validate service integrations, contracts, and API responses.

3\. Automation Assessment \& Planning

• Review existing application landscapes and automation assets.
• Assess:

+ Framework maturity

+ Automation coverage

+ Technical debt

• Identify automation gaps, risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies.
• Document current\-state findings and recommendations.
• Define automation priorities and roadmap.
• Break down work into actionable tasks and user stories.
• Provide effort estimations and execution plans.

4\. Quality Engineering

• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, and SMEs.
• Analyse requirements and business workflows.
• Identify business processes suitable for UI and API automation.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage for critical business functions and integrations.
• Analyse test results and support defect identification and resolution.
• Validate functional, integration, and service\-level quality requirements.

5\. Stakeholder Management \& Collaboration

• Maintain proactive communication with project stakeholders.
• Participate in:

+ Sprint planning

+ Daily stand\-ups

+ Status reporting

+ Sprint reviews and retrospectives

+ Technical discussions

* Provide regular updates regarding

+ Progress

+ Risks

+ Blockers

+ Automation outcomes

• Collaborate effectively within cross\-functional teams while owning deliverables.

6\. Delivery Ownership

• Take complete ownership of automation deliverables from analysis through implementation.
• Drive tasks to completion with minimal supervision.
• Ensure timely delivery whilst maintaining defined quality objectives.
• Function as a hands\-on contributor rather than a coordination\-focused resource.

• *Skills**

Playwright, Typescript, CI/CD, API Testing, Integration Testing, Test Automation, Agile

• *About UST**

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future\-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.