Test Automation Architect

We are Looking for Test Automation Architect with Guidewire and Playwright exp. consultant in Toronto, Canada , Hybrid 03 days per week from day 1

• Title: Test Automation Architect with Playwright exp
• Location: Toronto, Canada – Hybrid 03 days per week from day 1, Find local.
• Duration: Long Term

Client: Leading Canadian P&C Insurance Organization Technology Environment: Guidewire, Playwright, TypeScript

Job summary:

We are seeking a Test Automation Architect to define, design, and govern enterprise-scale automation solutions. The role requires strong hands‑on expertise in TypeScript, Playwright, and Helenium, along with Prompt Engineering capabilities to leverage AI‑driven testing and productivity use cases. The candidate must also demonstrate excellent stakeholder communication skills to drive automation strategy and quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Architecture & Strategy

• 10-12 years of experience in Test Automation and a minimum of 3 years on Microsoft Playwright automation tool.
• Own and define end‑to‑end test automation architecture across web and desktop applications.
• Design scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.
• Define automation standards, best practices, coding guidelines, and governance models.
• Evaluate applications and recommend tools, frameworks, and AI‑assisted automation approaches.

Hands‑on Automation Development

• Develop and enhance TypeScript‑based automation frameworks using strong object‑oriented and modular design principles.
• Build and maintain Playwright automation frameworks for modern web applications.
• Create reusable automation components, fixtures, utilities, and libraries.
• Implement reliable locator strategies, synchronization, error handling, and reporting.
• Enable parallel and distributed execution to optimize execution cycles.

AI & Prompt Engineering

• Apply Prompt Engineering techniques to improve test design, test‑data generation, defect analysis, and automation productivity.
• Leverage AI‑assisted tools for test‑case generation, exploratory testing support, and automation optimization.
• Validate AI‑generated tests and automation code for accuracy, coverage, maintainability, and compliance with framework standards.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate AI‑driven testing approaches into existing automation frameworks.

CI/CD & Tool Integration

• Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
• Enable automated test execution, reporting, and defect traceability.
• Support environment‑based, parallel, and scheduled execution.
• Track automation metrics, execution stability, maintenance effort, and ROI.

Stakeholder Communication & Leadership

• Act as the automation subject‑matter expert for internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and business teams.
• Clearly communicate automation strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, and value to senior leadership.
• Support estimation, planning, solutioning, and proposal preparation for automation initiatives.
• Mentor automation engineers and guide teams on framework usage and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce TypeScript, Playwright, and automation quality standards.
• Govern automation implementation and execution across projects to ensure consistency and quality.

Mandatory Skills: Must Have

• TypeScript: Mandatory
• Strong hands‑on experience in TypeScript, including types, interfaces, classes, modules, promises, asynchronous programming, error handling, and reusable framework development.
• Playwright: Mandatory
• Test Automation Framework Design
• Experience designing custom, hybrid, modular, and enterprise‑scale automation frameworks.
• Helenium
• Experience with self‑healing automation concepts, dynamic locator recovery, and integration with existing automation frameworks.
• Prompt Engineering
• Experience applying structured prompts to test design, test‑data generation, defect analysis, automation development, and quality‑engineering use cases.
• Experience creating reusable automation components, utilities, fixtures, libraries, and reporting solutions.
• Experience enabling parallel and distributed test execution.
• CI/CD integration experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
• Test strategy, test planning, automation estimation, and automation‑candidate identification.
• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills.

Nice to Have

• API automation experience for REST services.
• Insurance domain experience, including exposure to quote, policy, billing, claims, renewals, or endorsements.
• RAG knowledge, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval relevance, groundedness, and hallucination testing.
• Exposure to GenAI and LLM application testing.
• Performance or other non‑functional testing exposure.
• Agile and DevOps delivery experience.
• Enterprise‑scale or multi‑application automation experience.
• Docker or cloud‑based test‑execution exposure.