Senior Automation Test Engineer

ABOUT PLANE Plane’s mission is to build the infrastructure the world’s work runs on. We want teams to move faster without losing context, and organizations to retain the flexibility and control they need. Our team is building that work infrastructure as an open, adaptable platform for projects, knowledge, and requests—simple enough for any team to adopt and dependable enough for organizations to build on. Plane began in public on [GitHub](https://github.com/makeplane/plane) at the end of 2022. Since then, it has grown from an open-source project into a work management platform used by teams around the world. Organizations can use Plane as a managed Cloud service, run it on their own infrastructure, or deploy it inside fully isolated environments. Building in the open keeps us close to users and raises the standard for what we ship. We believe the future of work will be shaped by people and agents working together. That makes shared context, explicit state, durable history, and accountable action more important—not less. Plane exists to make that future useful, legible, and within the organization's control. Plane is backed by OSS Capital and built across San Francisco and Hyderabad. We work in small, collaborative teams, stay close to users, and care about both the visible product experience and the unglamorous details that make software dependable. People own problems end to end and add process only when it helps the work. We are still early. If you want to help define what work infrastructure becomes—and build software that teams can make their own and organizations can depend on—we'd like to hear from you. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a meticulous and experienced Senior Automation Test Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in test automation using Playwright or Cypress, a solid understanding of software testing methodologies, and exceptional attention to detail. In this role, you will design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web applications. You will work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to identify quality risks, improve test coverage, and integrate automated testing into the software development lifecycle. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks using Playwright or Cypress. - Create and execute automated test cases based on project requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications. - Automate functional, regression, integration, smoke, and end-to-end test scenarios for web applications. - Perform exploratory and manual testing when necessary to identify defects, usability issues, and automation opportunities. - Collaborate with product managers, developers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and define effective testing strategies. - Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps. - Analyze automated test results, investigate failures, and distinguish between application defects, test-script issues, and environmental problems. - Document test results, defects, quality risks, and deviations from expected behavior accurately and efficiently. - Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot issues, verify fixes, and ensure the stability of software releases. - Participate in requirement reviews, test-case reviews, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release-planning meetings. - Improve automation coverage, execution speed, test reliability, and maintainability. - Identify and resolve flaky tests and contribute to improving the overall stability of the automation suite. - Mentor and guide junior QA engineers by sharing technical expertise and automation-testing best practices. - Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and technologies related to test automation and qu…