Senior QA Automation Engineer

Buildout

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Buildout developing and maintaining Playwright automated tests across products. Partnering with DevOps to shape CI integration and coach developers on test authoring.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in End-to-End Test Automation using Playwright and TypeScript, with a strong focus on CI/CD integration and quality metrics reporting. Capable of mentoring teams and driving improvements in test reliability and coverage.

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End-To-End Test AutomationPlaywright ExpertiseTypeScript ProficiencyCI/CD IntegrationQuality Metrics Reporting

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Hard Skills

Test AutomationEnd-To-End TestingTypeScriptJavaScriptAPI TestingFlaky Test DiagnosisTest Data ManagementEnvironment ProvisioningQuality Metrics DefinitionTest Code Review

Soft Skills

IndependenceOwnershipMentoringTeaching Instincts

Tools & Technologies

PlaywrightGitHub ActionsJenkinsCircleCIClaude CodeAI-Assisted DevelopmentDocker

Industry Keywords

Quality EngineeringTest AutomationSoftware EngineeringDefect Escape RateCoverage ModelsRuby on Rails

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerJavaScriptJenkinsRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the E2E test suite. Design, build, and maintain end-to-end automated tests in Playwright (TypeScript) covering our critical user journeys across products.
Backfill and prioritize coverage. Audit what we have, identify the highest-risk gaps, and systematically close them.
Kill flakiness. Own suite reliability end to end: root-cause flaky tests, establish quarantine and retry policies, manage test data and environment stability, and keep signal-to-noise high enough that a red build means something.
Shape CI integration. Partner with our DevOps engineer on where tests run in the pipeline, execution frequency, parallelization, runtime budgets, and merge/deploy gating.
Test at the right layer. Know when a check belongs at the API or integration layer instead of the browser, and structure the suite so it stays fast as it grows.
Enable the team. Coach developers on writing good Playwright tests, review test code, and establish patterns, utilities, and documentation so test authorship scales beyond you.
Report on quality. Co-own quality metrics including test coverage of critical paths, suite reliability, and defect escape rate, and communicate trends to engineering leadership.
Use modern tooling. Leverage AI-assisted development (we use Claude Code across engineering) and Playwright's evolving tooling to accelerate test authoring and maintenance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering with a strong automation focus.
Deep hands-on Playwright expertise. You've built and maintained substantial E2E suites, not just contributed tests to one.
Strong TypeScript/JavaScript proficiency. You write test code you'd be comfortable shipping to production.
CI/CD fluency. Experience integrating and operating test suites in pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar), including parallelization and selective execution strategies.
A track record of fixing flakiness. You can talk concretely about how you diagnosed and eliminated unreliable tests at scale.
Independence and ownership. You can take an ambiguous mandate ("our test coverage needs to be better") and turn it into a prioritized plan you drive to completion.
Teaching instincts. You've mentored engineers, run code reviews, or otherwise raised a team's testing bar.
Nice to Have:
API-layer test automation experience (REST, contract testing).
Experience defining quality metrics (defect escape rate, coverage models) and reporting to leadership.
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails applications (our primary application stack - you won't write much Ruby, but you'll test Rails apps).
Experience with test data management, environment provisioning, or Docker-based test infrastructure.
Experience using AI-assisted tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Playwright codegen/MCP) in a testing workflow.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Impactful insurance and benefit options, including 2 medical plans to choose from, 100% coverage of employee dental and vision insurance premiums, HSA seed, company-paid STD, LTD, life insurance, and telemedicine, and a wellness benefit of $400/year.
Policies that support a healthy work/life harmony, including Flexible PTO, 14 paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and give back days
401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting
A fully remote work culture with a monthly remote work reimbursement ($600/year) to support our distributed team and an annual, in-person company kickoff
Challenging problems to solve with a committed and supportive team who are invested in your growth and development
A wonderfully quirky culture where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work