QA Automation Engineer - Playwright

Jr. QA Automation Engineer - Playwright

Are you passionate about driving innovation and ensuring exceptional software quality through advanced automation? Thomson Reuters is looking for a talented and motivated Jr. QA Automation Engineer to become a key member of our dynamic Platform Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of technology in a global enterprise, where your expertise and ideas will help shape the reliability and excellence of our products and services.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and execute automated test suites—driving a world-class developer and user experience in an enterprise environment. We’re looking for candidates with strong experience in automated testing frameworks, a proven ability to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions, and a quality-focused mindset.
If you’re passionate about technology, thrive in a collaborative setting, and want to help shape impactful solutions for developers and end-users worldwide, we encourage you to apply and grow your career with us.

About the role:

In this opportunity as a Jr. QA Automation Engineer - Playwright, you will:

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and UX designers to understand project requirements and assist in developing comprehensive test plans and specifications.
• Design, develop, and maintain UI and API automated test scripts using Playwright for web applications.
• Participate in writing clean, maintainable, and reusable test code.
• Execute automated test suites, analyze results, and report issues to ensure software quality and adherence to best practices.
• Assist in code reviews and help maintain a robust automation framework.
• Support manual testing efforts as needed to ensure complete coverage.
• Participate in Agile development practices, including sprint planning and daily standups.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve testing processes and methodologies.

About you:

You’re a fit for the role of Jr. QA Automation Engineer - Playwright if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance and test automation.
• Proficiency in automated testing tools, with significant experience using Playwright (Mandatory).
• Strong understanding of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Experience with GIT
• Basic understanding of APIs (REST and Graphql)
• Familiarity with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with both API and UI automation testing.
• Eager to learn and apply new skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills and a willingness to collaborate with team members.
• Passion for delivering high-quality software that meets user needs.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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