QA Engineer – Frontend Automation

Job Description

Experience: 3.00 + years

Salary: USD 1481-2222 / month (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 7 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Indefinite Contract(40 hrs a week/160 hrs a month)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - Strategic Transformation Through Digital & Physical Innovation)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions, react, visual diffing tools, E2E Automation, Frontend automation, monorepo structure, Playwright, Prisma 6, QA, Socket.IO

Strategic Transformation Through Digital & Physical Innovation is Looking for:

We’re looking for a sharp, execution-focused QA Engineer who specializes in automated front-end testing with Playwright. You’ll pressure test a modern, enterprise-grade stack, ship high-confidence releases, and safeguard the customer experience across our multi-tenant platform.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust Playwright end-to-end, integration, and UI regression test suites.
• Architect scalable automated testing frameworks aligned to our monorepo structure (pnpm workspaces).
• Validate Next.js 15 UI flows including server components, client components, Suspense, streaming, and App Router navigation.
• Verify data flows across React Query, Redux Toolkit, and form validation through React Hook Form + Zod.
• Partner with engineering to tighten CI gatekeeping, PR quality controls, and test coverage requirements.
• Execute cross-browser/device testing at scale.
• Own test data strategy, mocking tools, and stability of automation pipelines.
• Collaborate with backend teams to validate API contracts, schema changes, Prisma models, and NestJS endpoints.
• Stress test real-time experiences (Socket.io) and job-driven workflows (BullMQ).
• Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement across teams.
  
  
  

Required Skills and Experience:

• Deep expertise in Playwright for UI, API, and E2E automation.
• Strong experience validating complex React/Next.js applications.
• Comfortable testing server components, App Router, streaming, Suspense boundaries.
• Solid TypeScript 5.7 chops with strict typing.
• Familiar with shadcn/ui, Tailwind 4 utilities, and modern component patterns.
• Experience validating React Query state, caching behavior, optimistic updates, and cross-tab sync.
• Hands-on with Redux Toolkit for UI state workflows.
• Strong understanding of authentication flows using NextAuth.js (sessions, JWT, role-based access).
• Familiarity with API validation and schema-first backends using NestJS 10, Prisma 6, and OpenAPI 3.0.
• Ability to test real-time and async features: Socket.io, Redis, BullMQ.
• Experience operating inside Dockerized environments and AWS pipelines.
• Comfortable working in monorepos using pnpm.
  
  
  

Nice to Have

Experience with visual diffing tools (Loki, Playwright trace viewers, or similar).

Security-focused testing mindset.

Familiarity with accessibility auditing tools (axe-core, Playwright a11y).

Performance profiling across the browser and network layers.

Knowledge of CI/CD workflows on GitHub Actions.

What Success Looks Like

Stable automation that catches breaking changes before staging.

High-velocity release cycles with fewer regressions.

Confidence for product, engineering, and executive teams that the UX is bulletproof.

Strong documentation, predictable workflows, and reliable QA signal quality.

How to apply for this opportunity?

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• Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
• Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
  
  
  

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