Automation Engineer

Trident Consulting is seeking a "Automation Engineer" for one of our client. A global leader in business and technology services.

Job Title: Automation Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Richmond, VA or Atlanta, GA (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Rate: $50/hr

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 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.

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

1. Automation testing experience.

2. Playwright automation testing.

3. Typescript, Javascript, xPath, resource locators etc.

Additional Information:

Build and deliver automation test suites using Playwright framework, Healthcare experience, Member portal experience, Selenium, Javascript automation testing experience.

Years of Experience: 7+ Years of Experience

About Trident Consulting

Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we've partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.