Role: QA Automation Tester (Playwright to AI Integration) role
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Automation Test Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright test automation and hands-on experience supporting AI-enabled development workflows. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright while contributing to AI agent enablement through the creation and maintenance of Skills.md documentation, prompts, and reusable automation assets.
This role requires a blend of traditional QA automation expertise and emerging AI-assisted engineering practices to improve software quality, accelerate testing cycles, and support intelligent automation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Test Automation
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Playwright.
- Create and execute end-to-end, functional, regression, integration, and UI automation test suites.
- Develop reusable test components, page object models, and automation utilities.
- Integrate Playwright tests within CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues.
- Ensure test coverage across web applications, APIs, and critical business workflows.
- Continuously improve automation coverage, execution efficiency, and reporting capabilities.
AI Agent Enablement
- Create and maintain Skills.md documentation for AI agents to define capabilities, workflows, and operational instructions.
- Develop structured prompts, reusable knowledge assets, and guidance documents for AI-assisted automation.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities for AI-driven testing and process automation.
- Support AI agents in executing Playwright-based testing workflows.
- Establish best practices for integrating AI tools into QA and development processes.
Quality Engineering
- Participate in requirement reviews and provide testability feedback.
- Develop test strategies, test plans, and automation roadmaps.
- Perform root cause analysis for production defects and testing failures.
- Ensure adherence to software quality standards and testing best practices.
- Mentor junior automation engineers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance and automation testing.
- Strong expertise with Playwright and modern test automation practices.
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Experience developing automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI, or enterprise AI platforms.
- Hands-on experience creating and maintaining Skills.md or similar AI agent instruction frameworks.
- Utilize Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) to enable AI agents to interact with web applications for automated testing, validation, navigation, and workflow execution.
- Configure and maintain Playwright MCP servers and tools to support AI-driven test automation scenarios.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Experience integrating AI agents with automated testing workflows.
- Knowledge of API testing using Playwright, Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD.
Technical Skills Required
- Playwright / Playwright MCP
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Test Automation Framework Design
- API Testing
- Git
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Agile Methodology
- Skills.md Documentation
