Test Automation Consultant

Job Title: Test Automation Architect

Contract

Toronto, ON

Job summary:

We are seeking a Test Automation Architect to define, design, and govern enterprise-scale automation solutions. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in TypeScript, Playwright, and Helenium, along with Prompt Engineering capabilities to leverage AI-driven testing and productivity use cases. The candidate must also demonstrate excellent stakeholder communication skills to drive automation strategy and quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Architecture & Strategy

• 10-12 years of experience in Test Automation and a minimum of 3 years on Microsoft Playwright automation tool.

• Own and define end-to-end test automation architecture across web and desktop applications.

• Design scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.

• Define automation standards, best practices, coding guidelines, and governance models.

• Evaluate applications and recommend tools, frameworks, and AI-assisted automation approaches.

Hands-on Automation Development

• Develop and enhance TypeScript-based automation frameworks using strong object-oriented and modular design principles.

• Build and maintain Playwright automation frameworks for modern web applications.

• Create reusable automation components, fixtures, utilities, and libraries.

• Implement reliable locator strategies, synchronization, error handling, and reporting.

• Enable parallel and distributed execution to optimize execution cycles.

AI & Prompt Engineering

• Apply Prompt Engineering techniques to improve test design, test-data generation, defect analysis, and automation productivity.

• Leverage AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, exploratory testing support, and automation optimization.

• Validate AI-generated tests and automation code for accuracy, coverage, maintainability, and compliance with framework standards.

• Collaborate with teams to integrate AI-driven testing approaches into existing automation frameworks.

CI/CD & Tool Integration

• Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

• Enable automated test execution, reporting, and defect traceability.

• Support environment-based, parallel, and scheduled execution.

• Track automation metrics, execution stability, maintenance effort, and ROI.

Stakeholder Communication & Leadership

• Act as the automation subject-matter expert for internal and external stakeholders.

• Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and business teams.

• Clearly communicate automation strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, and value to senior leadership.

• Support estimation, planning, solutioning, and proposal preparation for automation initiatives.

Mentoring & Governance

• Mentor automation engineers and guide teams on framework usage and best practices.

• Conduct code reviews and enforce TypeScript, Playwright, and automation quality standards.

• Govern automation implementation and execution across projects to ensure consistency and quality.

Mandatory Skills: Must Have

• TypeScript: Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience in TypeScript, including types, interfaces, classes, modules, promises, asynchronous programming, error handling, and reusable framework development.

• Playwright: Mandatory

Hands-on experience building and maintaining Playwright frameworks using TypeScript, including fixtures, hooks, locators, assertions, browser contexts, storage state, tracing, retries, reporting, parallel execution, and sharding.

• Test Automation Framework Design

Experience designing custom, hybrid, modular, and enterprise-scale automation frameworks.

• Helenium

Experience with self-healing automation concepts, dynamic locator recovery, and integration with existing automation frameworks.

• Prompt Engineering

Experience applying structured prompts to test design, test-data generation, defect analysis, automation development, and quality-engineering use cases.

• Experience creating reusable automation components, utilities, fixtures, libraries, and reporting solutions.

• Experience enabling parallel and distributed test execution.

• CI/CD integration experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

• Test strategy, test planning, automation estimation, and automation-candidate identification.

• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills.

Nice to Have

• API automation experience for REST services.

• Insurance domain experience, including exposure to quote, policy, billing, claims, renewals, or endorsements.

• RAG knowledge, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval relevance, groundedness, and hallucination testing.

• Exposure to GenAI and LLM application testing.

• Performance or other non-functional testing exposure.

• Agile and DevOps delivery experience.

• Enterprise-scale or multi-application automation experience.

• Docker or cloud-based test-execution exposure.