About the role: The Mid QA Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, building and maintaining automated test solutions using Playwright to cover web and API layers, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and promoting automation best practices within the QA team. Works closely with developers, Product Owners and Manual QA colleagues.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyse requirements and define test conditions suitable for automation.
  • Design, implement and maintain automated functional and regression tests for web, API and other application layers.
  • Create reusable test components, data builders and utilities.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD, monitor runs, investigate failures and report results.
  • Log and manage defects, re-test fixes, and take quality ownership for selected features.
  • Contribute to framework design, refactoring and continuous improvement of QA tooling.
  • Follow data protection and information security guidelines when working with test data and environments.

Requirements:

  • At least 3+ years focused on test automation at a mid-senior level.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (page object models, fixtures, API testing, parallel execution).
  • Proficient in JavaScript or TypeScript for automation scripting.
  • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and using version control (e.g. Git).
  • Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (e.g. Jira and test case management tools).
  • Good analytical, communication skills and excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred:

  • Experience architecting and scaling Playwright frameworks across large environments.
  • Experience with Playwright API testing, REST clients (e.g. Postman) and contract testing approaches.
  • Basic SQL for test data preparation and verification.
  • Familiarity with performance/load testing concepts and tools (e.g. k6, Gatling).
  • Experience mentoring junior automation engineers.

Benefits / Conditions:

  • Location: Varna, Bulgaria — flexible working policy with combination of remote and office working (hybrid).
  • Flexible hours, 22 annual leave days, additional health insurance (dental & vision), life insurance.
  • Multisport cards, monthly food vouchers, company paid trainings and learning accounts, team buildings and other corporate benefits.