LatAm - Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team located Latam.

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy and has a presence around the globe transforming and connecting the most prominent brands with their customers. At Perficient, we seek to grow alongside professionals promoting agile cultures and values as we challenge, champion, and celebrate our people for us to build a great future together.

We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer, who will play a key role in ensuring exceptional product quality throughout the full software development life cycle from requirements gathering to production release. You'll architect, develop, and maintain robust automated test suites using Playwright, improving CI pipelines, and partnering closely with developers and product owners. Your work will help transform manual testing into reliable, maintainable automation that accelerates delivery and improves confidence in releases.

• Design, implement and maintain end-to-end automated test suites using Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript).

• Build robust test frameworks, reusable helpers and page object models to keep tests readable and reliable.

• Integrate tests into CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) and own test execution in pipelines.

• Create and run cross-browser tests (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) and validate responsive/a11y behavior.

• Collaborate with engineering to triage defects, reproduce issues and ensure fixes have adequate coverage.

• Mentor engineers and QA peers on testability, automation best practices, and test strategy.

• Analyze flaky tests, improve stability and report test coverage and quality metrics.

• Support test data setup, mocking/stubbing backend calls when needed and performance/smoke testing as required.

• Proven experience automating web tests with Playwright in JavaScript or TypeScript.

• Solid understanding of web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP, REST APIs.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working with test reporting tools.

• Strong debugging skills and experience diagnosing flaky or timing-dependent UI tests.

• Comfortable working in an Agile environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication skills and attention to test design, maintainability, and reliability.

• Fluent English B2 / C1.

• Experience with other UI automation tools (Selenium, Cypress) and test runners (Jest, Mocha) is a plus.

• Familiarity with TypeScript typing, linting and code review practices.

• Knowledge of API testing tools (Postman, REST-assured) and contract testing concepts.

• Experience with test data management, Docker, cloud test lab services, or browser farm integrations.

• Accessibility (a11y) testing experience and performance testing basics is a plus.

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work. 

WHO WE ARE

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers' expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients – the world's largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you'll become part of something truly special.

We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We're committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we're not done yet.

Disclaimer:  The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification.  Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.