QA Practice Lead (Playwright)

We need a senior QA professional to assess our current QA practices, set up the right processes, and guide junior team members on execution. You will then scale the practice with Playwright automation.

• Assess existing QA processes, tools and coverage; identify gaps and drive an improvement roadmap.
• Define test strategy, QA processes and quality metrics (coverage, defect leakage, release sign-off).
• Guide and mentor junior QA engineers on test design, execution and automation.
• Build a scalable Playwright (TypeScript) framework for UI and API tests.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD with quality gates and clear reporting.
• Drive adoption of AI in testing: agentic AI for test generation, self-healing scripts and failure triage, using Playwright MCP and similar tools.
• Define QA approaches for AI-powered features, including LLM output evaluation and agent workflow testing.
• Partner with dev and product teams to make quality a shared responsibility.

• 8–10 years in QA, 4+ years in test automation.
• 2+ years hands-on Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proven experience assessing and setting up a QA practice from scratch.
• Strong API testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar) and Git skills.
• Experience leading and coaching junior QA engineers.
• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agentic AI tools (e.g. Playwright MCP, Claude, GitHub Copilot) in QA workflows.

• Selenium/Cypress to Playwright migration experience.
• Performance, accessibility or visual testing exposure.
• ISTQB or equivalent certification.
• Experience building or testing MCP servers, AI agents or LLM-based applications (evals, prompt and guardrail testing).