Senior QA Engineer with Playwright - Only W2

Role: Senior QA Engineer with Playwright Remote (USA / Canada) - Candidates can be either in USA or Canada Job Type: W2 Contract Responsibilities: • Verify completed work against acceptance criteria, design intent, and expected behavior, including adjacent regression risk areas. • Own the staging release process-determine readiness, execute releases, and return failed items with clear reproduction details. • Run, triage, and maintain Playwright, unit, and integration test suites to ensure continuous coverage and reliability. • Diagnose and repair flaky or outdated tests, identifying gaps, duplicates, and inaccurate test-plan status. • Document defects in Linear with reproduction steps, severity, environment details, and expected versus actual behavior. • Provide Product stakeholders with concise release candidate summaries and contribute actively to standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Requirements: • Strong product judgment with the ability to identify gaps between technically passing implementations and intended outcomes. • Strong Playwright skills including running, debugging, repairing end-to-end tests, and diagnosing flaky behavior. • Working knowledge of Next.js, React, TypeScript, browser developer tools, and application logs. • Proficiency with AI-assisted QA or development tools such as Claude, Claude Code, or equivalent. • Clear written communication for defect documentation and release candidate summaries. • Experience owning a staging promotion or release process, ideally with GitHub Actions CI/CD. (Optional)