Aggne
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aggne.com
Job details:
Job Role: Test Automation Architect – Playwright
Experience: 10–15 Years
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Job Description
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Test Automation Architect to lead our quality engineering strategy from our Hyderabad office. You will be the driving force behind designing, implementing, and scaling our enterprise-level test automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in Playwright and TypeScript, a strong architectural mindset, and a passion for mentoring engineering teams to adopt a "quality-first" culture.
Qualifications
- 10 to 15 years of extensive experience in software engineering and quality assurance, with at least 3+ years in an Architect or Lead capacity.
- Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep, architectural-level knowledge of Playwright.
- Proven track record of designing custom automation frameworks (Page Object Model, Screenplay pattern, Data-driven, BDD/TDD).
- Extensive experience with modern CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong grasp of microservices architecture, API integrations, and database concepts.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and running tests in distributed environments.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and present technical strategies to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Framework Design: Architect, build, and scale robust, maintainable, and highly efficient test automation frameworks from scratch using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Strategy & Vision: Define the automation strategy for web UI, API, and mobile platforms across multiple product lines, ensuring alignment with overall business and technical goals.
- CI/CD & DevSecOps: Lead the integration of automated testing into advanced CI/CD pipelines, establishing quality gates, parallel execution strategies, and continuous testing feedback loops.
- Technical Leadership: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for all automation-related challenges. Mentor and upskill SDETs and QA engineers through code reviews, training, and pair programming.
- Tool Evaluation: Continuously evaluate new testing tools, libraries, and best practices to keep the QA technology stack modern and efficient.
- Performance & Scale: Implement strategies for non-functional testing, including performance, security, and accessibility, alongside functional automation.
- Reporting & Metrics: Design unified dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide leadership with clear visibility into test coverage, pass rates, and software quality metrics.
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