Senior QA Engineer with Playwright - Only W2

Job Description

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 Diagnose and repair flaky or outdated tests, identifying gaps, duplicates, and inaccurate test-plan status.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)