Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Applause is raising the bar for digital quality and employee experience. Recognized as a Top Workplace, Applause provides award-winning software testing, AI training, and UX research solutions to top brands. Our fully managed services leverage a global team and the world's largest independent testing community. We improve digital experiences for global innovators like Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Vodafone, and BMW.

We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking AI-Enabled Playwright Test Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain robust end-to-end test automation frameworks using Microsoft Playwright, while leveraging AI-powered tools including Anthropic's Claude to accelerate test creation, improve coverage analysis, and drive intelligent defect detection. You will sit at the intersection of traditional software quality engineering and modern AI-assisted development, helping the team ship faster with greater confidence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Playwright Test Automation

* Design, develop, and maintain scalable end-to-end, component, and API test suites using Microsoft Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
* Implement the Page Object Model (POM) and other maintainability patterns to ensure test suite longevity.
* Write cross-browser test scenarios targeting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with full parallel execution.
* Integrate Playwright test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
* Analyze and triage test failures, distinguishing flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive remediation.
* Develop performance and accessibility checks alongside functional test scenarios.
* Participate in sprint ceremonies, contributing QA estimates, risk assessments, and shift-left testing strategies

AI-Assisted Quality Engineering

* Use AI (via the Anthropic API, Claude.ai, or similar) to generate, refactor, and review Playwright test code from plain-language requirements or user stories.
* Leverage AI to perform automated test-gap analysis — identify untested user flows and surface coverage blind spots across the application.