AI Playwright Automation Architect

GSPANN is hiring an AI Playwright Automation Architect to design enterprise-wide test automation strategies and AI-powered Quality Engineering practices, focusing on modern framework architecture and team mentorship.

• Define and drive enterprise-wide Quality Engineering and test automation strategy.
• Architect, design, and implement scalable Playwright automation frameworks using JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Create reusable automation components, fixtures, utilities, reporting frameworks, and execution standards.
• Establish best practices to improve automation reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and reduce test flakiness.
• Lead automation coverage strategy across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop framework governance models, coding standards, and quality metrics.
• Modernize legacy Selenium or other automation frameworks to Playwright-based solutions and establish migration roadmaps.
• Integrate automation suites with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Optimize pipeline execution through parallelization, selective execution, reporting, and quality gates.
• Accelerate adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities for test generation, defect analysis, requirement understanding, test optimization, and productivity acceleration.
• Provide architectural guidance on enterprise AI adoption within Quality Engineering practices.
• Mentor Quality Engineering teams, conduct code reviews, and coach engineers on best practices.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand business challenges, recommend Quality Engineering improvements, and act as a trusted technical advisor.
• Evaluate emerging testing, automation, and AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

• Bring 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Framework Architecture.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on expertise in Playwright with proven experience designing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Apply deep knowledge of Playwright architecture, including fixtures, Page Object Model, custom utilities, reporting, debugging, tracing, network interception, and cross-browser testing.
• Develop strong programming skills in JavaScript and TypeScript to write clean, scalable, production-quality automation code.
• Work with UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing methodologies.
• Manage Git workflows, branching strategies, merge/rebase concepts, pull requests, conflict resolution, and repository management.
• Utilize Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Bring extensive experience with Node.js ecosystem, npm/yarn, package management, and build processes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in migrating Selenium or legacy automation frameworks to modern Playwright-based solutions.
• Apply practical experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies in software testing and quality engineering.
• Develop comprehensive understanding of AI concepts including Prompt Engineering, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, semantic search, agents, tools, memory, and secure enterprise AI adoption.
• Work with enterprise standards for secure and responsible AI adoption practices.
• Manage strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Bring excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.