Test Engineer (Playwright + Javascript/Typescript)

As a Quality Engineer (QE) / Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Simpplr, you will play a crucial role in ensuring quality is an integrated part of the engineering process. Being part of a cross-functional product team, you will contribute from story grooming to release, focusing on building test frameworks, validating assumptions early, and ensuring a fast and reliable delivery pipeline. This hands-on engineering position is dedicated to embedding quality into every layer of the stack. Your responsibilities will include participating in requirement discussions, defining test strategies alongside product managers and developers, and influencing design and architecture with a quality-first mindset. You will plan testing early, build necessary tools and automation for continuous validation, and design scalable test systems. Maintaining automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, Cucumber BDD, JUnit, or TestNG, setting up pre-merge validations, and automating end-to-end flows, component-level tests, and API validations will be part of your role. You will leverage data to drive quality by implementing observability, building dashboards to track key quality indicators, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to co-own and act on quality metrics. Your expertise will be crucial in integrating tests into CI/CD workflows, embedding tests within GitHub workflows or Jenkins pipelines, and championing modern practices like contract testing, test data versioning, and environment stability. Engaging in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical design discussions, working closely with developers, infrastructure engineers, and data teams, and coaching junior engineers to foster a culture of engineering excellence are also key aspects of this role. With core qualifications including 3 to 5 years of experience in quality engineering or SDET roles, strong coding skills in JS, playwright, and experience with frameworks like Cucumber BDD, JUnit, or TestNG, you are expected to have hands-on experience in UI testing, tools like Postman, RestAssured, or JMeter for API testing, and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins. Your personal attributes should include an ownership mindset with proactive problem-solving skills, excellent collaboration and communication abilities, and comfort working in fast-paced product environments. Experience with performance or security testing, exposure to microservices or cloud-native testing approaches, and certifications such as ISTQB or agile quality credentials are considered bonus points. As a QE or SDET at Simpplr, you will be a true engineering partner involved from the earliest stages of feature development, designing systems and tools to prevent bugs rather than just detect them, taking shared ownership of quality KPIs alongside developers and product teams, and embedding quality into every layer of the development process.,