Job Title: QA Automation Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: 10 Months

Bill Rate: $77/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

Design, build, and maintain a scalable Playwright automation framework using TypeScript/JavaScript, applying Page Object Model or equivalent design patterns for reusability and maintainability.
Develop end-to-end UI automation suites covering critical business workflows, regression scenarios, and smoke tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
Write resilient locators using Playwright's role-based and test-id strategies, leveraging auto-waiting and web-first assertions to eliminate hard waits and reduce flakiness.
Build reusable fixtures, custom commands, and test utilities; manage authentication state via storageState to avoid redundant login flows.
Implement API test automation using Playwright's request fixture for service-layer validation and test data setup/teardown.
Implement network interception and mocking (page.route) to isolate the UI from unstable downstream dependencies and to test error and edge-case states.

Required Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
3–6 years of hands-on test automation experience, including 2+ years with Playwright building and maintaining production automation frameworks.
Strong programming proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript (Java Playwright bindings acceptable depending on stack).
Demonstrated experience architecting automation frameworks from scratch — not just writing scripts in an existing one.
Solid understanding of Playwright core concepts: locators, auto-waiting, fixtures, projects, parallelism, retries, tracing, and configuration.
Proficiency with API testing — REST, JSON payloads, status code and schema validation (Playwright request, Postman, or REST Assured).
Hands-on CI/CD integration experience with at least one of GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
Strong Git skills — branching, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, code review participation.
Working SQL knowledge for test data setup and backend validation.
Solid grasp of QA fundamentals: test design techniques, boundary and equivalence analysis, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based delivery.
Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills; ability to investigate failures across UI, API, and data layers.
Clear written and verbal communication — able to explain quality risk to non-technical stakeholders.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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