Lead Test Automation Engineer with Playwright

Location: San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, or New York

Base compensation: $97,371–$121,364 per year

Company

hirify.global is a global business and technology transformation partner delivering strategy, design, engineering, AI, cloud, and data solutions across more than 50 countries.

What you will do

• Lead the re-platforming of an IDE-bound quality engineering harness into a scalable, multi-tenant ORBIT service.
• Design headless, API-driven, and event-driven test execution with asynchronous workloads, scheduling, retries, and failure recovery.
• Integrate the platform with requirements, specification, code generation, test generation, execution, and promotion workflows.
• Build integrations with Test Data Management, Repo Knowledge Plane, and internal engineering platform services.
• Implement telemetry, flake detection, stability scoring, reliability trending, and promotion gates.
• Define platform engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with QE, DevOps, platform engineering, and AI teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including recent backend and platform engineering work.
• Experience re-platforming IDE-centric, desktop, or developer-facing tools into scalable shared services.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills, with expertise in API design, event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or ROSA and highly available distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, Gherkin/BDD, Playwright, Selenium, CI/CD integration, and large-scale test execution platforms.
• Practical experience with agentic AI frameworks and designing deterministic controls around probabilistic AI systems.

Nice to have

• ROSA/OpenShift platform operations experience.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, AI Gateway architectures, and enterprise AI integration patterns.
• Experience with Test Data Management, synthetic data pipelines, or data provisioning platforms.
• Modernization leadership in complex brownfield environments or experience with insurance domain systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with colleagues around the world.
• Comprehensive benefits package for regular, full-time employees.
• 12–25 vacation days depending on grade, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.