Our client is seeking a contract based Test Automation Specialist to accelerate the development of end-to-end automated testing using Playwright and TypeScript. This is a hands-on contract role requiring someone who can immediately contribute, quickly understand business workflows, and leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to rapidly build and scale automated test coverage.

Duration: 6 months

Location: Remote (occasional meeting in Toronto)

Responsibilities
Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
Build and enhance test automation frameworks covering web, API, and mobile applications.
Create end-to-end automated tests that validate complete business workflows and user journeys.
Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development techniques to accelerate test creation, refactoring, and automation at scale.
Review existing Selenium automation to understand application behaviour and validation requirements where helpful.
Work within and enhance the client’s existing Playwright/TypeScript framework.
Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, reliability, maintainability, and execution speed.
Collaborate with developers, QA resources,



and business stakeholders to quickly understand application workflows.
Support release readiness by identifying automation gaps and improving regression coverage.
Produce clean, reusable, maintainable automation code and supporting documentation.

Requirements
Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript in enterprise test automation settings.
Demonstrated experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding tools to significantly accelerate automation development.
Proven ability to design and build test automation frameworks from scratch.
Experience automating web applications, APIs, and mobile/application workflows.
Strong understanding of end-to-end testing, regression testing, integration testing, and test automation best practices.
Experience working with or modernizing legacy Selenium-based automation.
Ability to translate business processes into effective automated test scenarios.
Robust coding, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to quickly understand complex applications and business workflows with minimal ramp-up.

📌 Qa Automation Engineer Playwright Toronto
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📍 Toronto