Senior Quality Assurance Tester - Automation (Playwright / TypeScript)

As a Senior QA Tester/Test Automation Engineer at Syneos Health, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining automation solutions across multiple applications and platforms. Your passion for quality engineering and experience in modern automation frameworks will enable you to drive automation adoption in agile delivery environments. Your contributions will be instrumental in increasing automation coverage, improving release quality, reducing testing cycle times, and ensuring a scalable and reliable automation approach across the organization.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• **Automation Development**
• Design and build automated test scripts for web, API, backend, and functional scenarios.
• Develop scalable automation suites aligned to sprint and release cycles.
• Contribute to reusable automation libraries, utilities, and test data components.
• Ensure automation scripts meet coding standards and trace back to clear requirements.
• **Continuous Quality Execution**
• Support CI/CD integration for automated testing execution.
• Configure automation execution pipelines and generate automated reports.
• Use automation results to proactively identify defects and quality trends.
• **Test Strategy & Collaboration**
• Work closely with product owners, dev teams, and QA analysts to define test coverage.
• Perform requirement analysis to identify automation scope early (shift-left approach).
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and represent automation within the delivery team.
• Provide estimation and effort planning for automation tasks.
• **Documentation & Governance**
• Maintain script versioning, execution logs, and documentation.
• Support traceability, risk-based testing, and validation evidence where applicable.
• *Required Qualifications:**
• 25 years of hands-on experience in automation engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience in at least one of the following: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Provar (for Salesforce projects).
• Strong scripting/programming skills in TypeScript / JavaScript or Java / Python.
• Experience with API automation tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Experience executing automation within agile delivery models.
• Good knowledge of test design techniques (boundary, equivalence, data-driven, risk-based testing).
• *Preferred Experience:**
• Experience automating Salesforce applications.
• Hands-on experience building reusable automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of performance or accessibility automation tools.
• Experience in a regulated or validated environment (e.g., GxP).
• ISTQB or QA-related certification.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
• *Soft Skills:**
• Strong analytical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Self-driven with strong ownership and accountability.
• Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Passionate about mentoring others on automation best practices.

In addition to the above job responsibilities and qualifications, Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization committed to developing its employees through career development and progression, supportive line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and a total rewards program. The company values diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to create an inclusive work environment where everyone feels like they belong. As a Senior QA Tester/Test Automation Engineer at Syneos Health, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining automation solutions across multiple applications and platforms. Your passion for quality engineering and experience in modern automation frameworks will enable you to drive automation adoption in agile delivery environments. Your contributions will be instrumental in increasing automation coverage, improving release quality, reducing testing cycle times, and ensuring a scalable and reliable automation approach across the organization.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• **Automation Development**
• Design and build automated test scripts for web, API, backend, and functional scenarios.
• Develop scalable automation suites aligned to sprint and release cycles.
• Contribute to reusable automation libraries, utilities, and test data components.
• Ensure automation scripts meet coding standards and trace back to clear requirements.
• **Continuous Quality Execution**
• Support CI/CD integration for automated testing execution.
• Configure automation execution pipelines and generate automated reports.
• Use automation results to proactively identify defects and quality trends.
• **Test Strategy & Collaboration**
• Work closely with product owners, dev teams, and QA analysts to define test coverage.
• Perform requirement analysis to identify automa