Test Automation Lead with Playwright

Location: Mississauga, ON (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Job description:

- Own and drive the overall test strategy test planning and test execution across multiple releases
- Define testing scope approach and quality metrics
- Ensure adherence to QA standards best practices and governance
- Lead and contribute to test automation framework design and implementation
- Drive automation coverage for UI API and regression testing
- Hands on experience with Playwright preferred experience with Selenium or similar frameworks is a plus
- Integrate automated tests into CICD pipelines
- Oversee functional regression integration and UAT support testing
- Review test cases automation scripts and test artifacts for quality and completeness
- Manage defect triage prioritization root cause analysis and closure
- Lead mentor and manage onshore offshore QA teams
- Coordinate closely with Product Owners Developers Scrum Master and other Test leads
- Provide daily weekly status reporting dashboards and test closure reports




- Identify gaps in test processes and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Promote shift left testing automation first mindset and early defect detection

Required Skills:

- 10 years of experience in software testing quality engineering
- Minimum 3 to 5 years in a Test Lead QA Lead role
- 3 to 5 years of Web application testing experience
- Robust experience in test automation frameworks
- Playwright highly preferred
- Experience with API testing tools Postman REST clients
- CICD tools Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins etc.
- Test management and defect tracking tools JIRA Azure DevOps etc.
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript TypeScript for Playwright
- Database testing and SQL querying skills
- Understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies

Soft Skills:

- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Analytical detail oriented and problem-solving mindset
- Ability to work in fast paced multi release environments

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