Playwright Test Automation Engineer

Role overview

Playwright Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks in TypeScript for a high-performance foreign exchange (FX) trading platform. You’ll ensure reliability, scalability, and accuracy of mission-critical trading systems in a fast-paced, real-time trading environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript
• Develop end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites for:
  • Web-based trading applications
  • APIs
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous release validation
• Collaborate with development/QA/client-facing teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality standards
• Analyze test results, identify defects, and drive resolution with engineering teams
• Create and maintain test data, mocks, and stubs for complex trading workflows
• Validate UI performance and reliability under real-time trading conditions
• Improve test coverage and reduce manual testing dependencies
• Participate in release cycles, including smoke testing and production validation
• Document test frameworks, methodologies, and best practices

Requirements

• Strong experience with Playwright for test automation
• Proficiency in TypeScript
• Experience building automation frameworks from scratch
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Experience testing REST APIs and web applications
• Understanding of modern frontend architectures (React, Angular, or similar)
• Experience with Git
• Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills
• Familiarity with test reporting tools and test frameworks
• Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking systems

Nice to have

• Experience in financial systems, electronic trading, or capital markets
• Knowledge of FIX protocol or market data systems
• Exposure to performance/load testing tools
• Experience working in Linux environments