Role Overview
ELEKS is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) to join our team in Poland, Ukraine. Our client is a major reinsurance solutions provider, and this engagement is high-visibility. This role is part of Claims Copilot — a unified claims experience for the client's Commercial Risk customers, spanning 10 countries, ~100 clients, and 1,000+ users. The project is part of the client's AI-native development stream; the team is expected to actively explore ways to optimize development with AI and demonstrate this expertise to the client. The team works in Scrum; all processes are set up on the client's side, the Product Owner is based in Europe, and part of the technical team is located in the US.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript
- Develop and execute automated tests covering both UI and API layers
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate test case creation, automation development, code review, and defect analysis
- Build reusable automation components for functional, integration, regression, and E2E testing
- Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with developers and the scrum master to define test strategy and quality objectives
- Analyze test results and report on defects, risks, quality trends, and coverage
- Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives)
What we offer
- Close cooperation with a customer
- Challenging tasks
- Competence development
- Ability to influence project technologies
- Team of professionals
- Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy
Requirements
- 7+ years of QA/test automation experience
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Playwright
- Strong expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, solid understanding of OOP and design patterns
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch
- Experience with both UI and API test automation (REST, JSON, integration testing)
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) — work management, test planning, pipeline integrations
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Solid Git skills, including branching strategies
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude) — or strong motivation to learn and adopt them
- Basic to intermediate SQL
- Upper-Intermediate English
Would be a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms and microservices/distributed systems testing
- Performance, accessibility, or security testing experience
- Insurance, Reinsurance, or Financial Services background
