
QA Automation Engineer
Uplers • Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Role & seniority: QA Automation Engineer / SDET (past roles indicating strong ownership of test suites; contract/remote)
Stack/tools: Playwright (preferred); Selenium or Cypress (acceptable); CI/CD, logs/traces debugging; manual testing as needed
Top 3 responsibilities
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Reproduce failures locally and in CI; run Playwright test tasks reliably
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Investigate failures to determine root cause (test harness, repo setup, environment, or evaluator logic)
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Stabilize flaky tests and improve reliability via fixes (assertions, mocks, waits, deterministic validation); produce clear bug reports with repro steps, logs, and stack traces
Must-have skills
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Automation test development in Playwright or equivalent
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CI failure triage and debugging
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Flaky test analysis and stabilization
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Strong selectors/waits/assertions; deterministic test design
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Ability to isolate failures across layers; clear reproduction and defect docs
Nice-to-haves
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Experience stabilizing CI pipelines; debugging across test code, browser behavior, environment, and CI flow
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Hands-on debugging in logs/traces; ownership of automation reliability beyond new tests
Location & work type
- Remote, full-time contract (4 months, 40 hrs/week, 160 hrs/mo); shift aligned to GMT-04:00 America/New_York (EDT)
Full Description
Experience: 4.00 + years
Salary: Confidential (based on experience)
Expected Notice Period: 15 Days
Shift: (GMT-04:00) America/New_York (EDT)
Opportunity Type: Remote
Placement Type: Full Time Contract for 4 Months(40 hrs a week/160 hrs a month)
*(Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - QA Talent Provider)
What do you need for this opportunity?
Must have skills required
API testing heavy, Manual QA, CI/CD Test Failure Debugging, Flaky Test Stabilization, Playwright, Root Cause Analysis, Selenium, Wait Strategies, Manual Testing
QA Talent Provider is Looking for
Role Objective
Validate and debug code-driven test environments. This is not test execution. The role focuses on reproducing failures, identifying root causes, and improving reliability of automated test workflows. This role involves running provided coding tasks, identifying flaws and debugging what’s broken.
Candidate Responsibilities
Run Playwright based test tasks and reliably reproduce failures locally and in CI. Investigate why a test failed. Determine whether the issue is in the test harness, repo setup, environment, or evaluator logic. Diagnose flaky or inconsistent test behavior across runs. Improve reliability by proposing concrete fixes such as better assertions, mocks, waits, or deterministic validation. Produce tight bug reports WITH_REPLACED clear repro steps, logs, stack traces, and failing outputs.
Our ideal candidate should possess the following background
“QA Automation Engineer”, “SDET”, or “Dev-in-Test” as past roles WITH_REPLACED strong ownership of test suites. Hands-on Playwright preferred. Selenium or Cypress acceptable if the candidate has written and debugged frameworks. Experience stabilizing CI pipelines and resolving flaky tests. Comfortable reading logs, traces, and failure outputs to isolate root cause. Has worked on maintaining or improving automation reliability, not just adding new test cases. Experience reproducing issues independently using minimal setup or local environments before escalating. Familiar WITH_REPLACED debugging across layers such as test code, browser behavior, environment config, and CI execution flow. Used version control and CI tools as part of daily workflow to analyze failures and validate fixes.
Skills That Are Must-haves
Automation test development in Playwright or similar CI failure triage and debugging Flaky test analysis and stabilization Strong understanding of selectors, waits, assertions, and deterministic test design Ability to isolate failures across layers Clear reproduction and defect documentation
Profile that will not be a fit
Pure manual QA or test execution focused API testing heavy without automation ownership Only writing test cases without debugging responsibility
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