Senior Automation Engineer

• Own test automation end-to-end
• Build and maintain Playwright regression suites across search, company and people views, lists, signals, credits, sign-up, and CRM flows
• Own page object patterns, parallelism, and retries
• Run Checkly production synthetic monitoring and configure alerts and SLOs
• Build CI/CD quality gates for preview and staging deployments and analyse failures
• Manage test data to ensure isolation and repeatability
• Debug flaky tests to root cause and improve suite reliability and speed
• Test REST APIs, authentication, role-based access control, and integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics, Pipedrive, and the Chrome extension
• Turn rough testing notes into structured test cases and own test strategy and coverage decisions
• Lead AI-assisted testing using Browser Use, Stagehand, Playwright MCP, or similar frameworks
• Work with LLM-generated test cases from specifications
• Use Claude Code or Cursor to write, maintain, and review test specifications
• Publish regression reports for engineers and product managers
• Advocate for quality and collaborate with engineers and product during specification and pull-request stages
• Work closely with the engineering team in Melbourne as the voice of quality

• 5+ years of test automation experience in Playwright
• Production Playwright experience in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Solid test design skills, including page objects, test strategy, parallelism, and retries
• Ability to identify and fix the root cause of flaky tests
• REST API testing experience
• Auth and role-based access control testing experience
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD, including GitHub Actions or similar
• Experience building quality gates
• Hands-on experience generating, running, maintaining, or triaging AI-assisted tests
• Daily use of AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor, with critical review of output
• Very good written communication skills for bug and test reports
• Confidence pushing back on releases when risk is real
• Comfort working asynchronously with a team in Australia
• Product mindset and risk-based prioritisation
• Daily use of AI for test specification writing, test generation, debugging test failures, and test maintenance
• Highly valued: Checkly or similar synthetic monitoring experience, Chrome extension or complex CRM integration testing, Browser Use/Stagehand/Playwright MCP or similar, k6 or similar performance testing, visual regression testing, Postgres/Supabase, and B2B SaaS or data product experience

• Fully remote work arrangement
• Flexible work
• Opportunity to move into quality architecture, test strategy, or lead a growing testing team
• Career progression based on output, not tenure