We are Looking for Test Automation Architect with Guidewire and Playwright exp. consultant in Toronto, Canada , Hybrid 03 days per week from day 1
- Title: Test Automation Architect with Playwright exp
- Location: Toronto, Canada – Hybrid 03 days per week from day 1, Find local.
- Duration: Long Term
Client: Leading Canadian P&C Insurance Organization Technology Environment: Guidewire, Playwright, TypeScript
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.
