Senior Playwright Automation Engineer

Purpose Unlimited • Toronto, ON

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Playwright Automation Engineer on our Quality Platform, you will architect the systems that give our engineering teams genuine confidence to ship at speed: reliable, intelligent, AI-augmented test infrastructure that keeps pace with one of Canada's most ambitious fintech platforms.

At Purpose, we're direct about how AI changes the work. In this role, AI handles:
First-draft generation of repetitive test cases from acceptance criteria and user stories
Routine flakiness detection and pattern categorization across CI/CD runs
Standard API contract diffing and regression signal generation
Test data synthesis for complex financial and digital asset scenarios

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on automation engineering experience.
• 3+ years of strong Playwright experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in building automation framework (Selenium).
• 8+ years of progressive experience in Quality Assurance and SDLC practices.
• Advanced API testing expertise (REST, GraphQL, HTTP, JSON, OAuth) and strong understanding of microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted tools in your day-to-day engineering work – whether for test generation, maintenance, data synthesis, or defect analysis – and the judgment to know when to trust, adjust, or discard AI-generated output.
• Experience validating digital asset and cryptocurrency workflows including transaction processing, balances, staking operations, and financial data integrity.
• Strong understanding of test architecture patterns, modular design, and framework layering.
• Demonstrated ability to reduce test flakiness and improve execution stability.
• Strong debugging skills and ability to identify systemic weaknesses in automation structure.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with strong technical influence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with professional maturity in cross-functional collaboration.
• Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Nice To Haves

• You are a highly experienced, hands-on automation engineer with deep expertise in Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript-based test frameworks.
• You operate as a senior individual contributor who leads through technical excellence, not people management.
• You have extensive hands-on experience building scalable automation frameworks and improving quality verification processes in complex, distributed systems.
• You understand that UI and API coverage form the foundation of system reliability, particularly in regulated fintech environments.
• You think in terms of architecture, reliability, performance, and measurable quality outcomes.
• You’re comfortable working alongside AI-assisted tools and can evaluate their output with the same critical eye you bring to any automation work.
• You collaborate closely with engineering and product teams while maintaining a developer-quality mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of our Playwright-based automation framework using modern JavaScript and TypeScript best practices.
• Design, enhance, and maintain scalable, modular test architecture aligned with engineering standards.
• Review and refactor existing Playwright E2E test cases to improve maintainability, structure, stability, and execution performance.
• Design and maintain scalable API automation frameworks that validate backend services and distributed systems.
• Develop reusable libraries and modular test components, ensuring API coverage forms the foundation of system reliability.
• Develop, review, and continuously improve Playwright-based end-to-end automation suites aligned with API-level validation workflows.
• Reduce automation debt by eliminating duplication, improving test isolation, and strengthening framework abstraction layers.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, reusable utilities, consistent naming conventions, and clean folder structures.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, design discussions, and retrospectives.
• Review user stories and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, edge cases, negative scenarios, and risk areas early in the development cycle.
• Create, update, and maintain structured end-to-end scenarios including edge cases, boundary conditions, and regression flows.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to validate business flows and clarify expected behaviors.
• Partner with developers to review feature implementations, validate logic, and conduct demo sessions confirming automation coverage.
• Improve test reliability by identifying and eliminating sources of flakiness and instability.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and optimize execution strategies for parallelization and performance.
• Define and track automation metrics including regression stability, execution time, failure patterns, coverage health, and release readiness indicators.
• Continuously evaluate tools, libraries, and AI-driven enhancements to improve framework efficiency and long-term scalability – including LLM-assisted test generation, AI-powered flakiness analysis, and automated test data synthesis.
• Mentor engineers on Playwright best practices, JavaScript patterns, sustainable automation design, and practical use of AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including equity program.
• Comprehensive group health and dental benefits and life insurance at little to no cost to you.
• Lifestyle Spending Account for all your wellness needs.
• Flexible paid time-off policy with unlimited vacation days.
• Flexible sick and mental health days.
• Paid parental leave for eligible employees with a top-up.
• Generous Group RRSP matching and an optional TFSA program.
• Training opportunities and tuition support year-round.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed