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Playwright Automation Engineer
Go deep on the modern browser automation stack, from fixtures to sharded CI runs.
Starting level: Automation Tester with basic scriptingTarget role: Playwright Automation EngineerJourney: 2–3 months
Core skills
- TypeScript types, async/await and configuration
- Locators, auto-waiting and web-first assertions
- Custom fixtures and worker-scoped setup
- Network interception, mocking and API requests inside tests
- Trace viewer debugging, sharding and parallelism
Recommended technologies
- Playwright Test
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Docker
- GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Allure or the built-in HTML reporter
Practice labs
- Convert ten Selenium specs to Playwright
- Mock a failing API and assert the error state
- Record and analyse a trace for a deliberately slow page
Projects
- A component-based framework with fixtures, env config, mocking and CI sharding
- Visual comparison suite for a design system
Interview preparation
- Auto-waiting versus explicit waits
- How fixtures differ from before/after hooks
- Parallelism, workers and test isolation
Suggested next step
- SDET or Test Framework Architect
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