QA Automation Engineer

Role Overview

Lead QA Automation Engineer (hands-on leadership) to own and scale QA across web and mobile platforms, including media websites and the Drops application.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and enhance automated testing pipelines for web and mobile applications, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
• Develop, update, and maintain automated tests using Playwright (or similar), expanding coverage for critical user flows.
• Optimize test execution time, reduce flaky tests, and improve overall test reliability.
• Maintain and improve CI test workflows using GitHub Actions to support continuous integration and deployment.
• Define standards for writing, reviewing, and organizing automated tests to ensure consistency and quality.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure applications are testable and automation-friendly.
• Investigate failed test runs, identify root causes, and coordinate fixes with engineering teams.
• Improve QA processes (defect triage, regression planning, release readiness).
• Create practical QA guidelines for feature validation and regression testing.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional QA experience, including hands-on testing of web applications.
• 3+ years developing and maintaining automated test suites for production applications.
• 2+ years with modern browser automation frameworks (Playwright preferred; Cypress or Selenium).
• 1+ year leading QA initiatives, mentoring QA testers, or managing QA processes in a product/engineering team.
• Proficiency writing and maintaining automated tests in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with test case management tools such as Testiny, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar.
• Experience with cross-browser/cross-device testing tools such as Sauce Labs or BrowserStack.
• Strong understanding of regression, smoke, exploratory testing, and defect lifecycle management.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed tests and determine whether issues are test, environment, or application related.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Selenium/Cypress (in addition to Playwright).
• Deeper familiarity with additional QA guideline and release-readiness practices for web and mobile.