Test Automation Engineer with JS/Playwright - Monterrey

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a Test Automation Engineer  who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers personalized expectations in this new technological era. 

This Studio provides a comprehensive suite of innovative and robust testing services that ensure high-quality products to meet the needs of demanding, technology-avid users.
The Test Automation Engineer makes a key contribution supporting end-to-end application delivery, constantly providing visibility of the actual quality of the products, verifying that they are always above our quality gates.

You will get the chance to:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable, and maintainable automation tests that deliver consistent results.

• Create reusable automation components and utilities to accelerate test development and improve maintainability.

• Convert certified manual test cases into automated tests.

• Maintain and execute automated test suites (regression, smoke, workflow-based tests).

• Execute both automated and manual tests as required to support release timelines.

• Uphold existing Client quality standards, policies, and testing practices.

• Identify opportunities to improve automation frameworks, tools, and testing processes.

• Innovate and adopt tools or approaches that improve efficiency, coverage, and reliability.

• Provide accurate work estimates for assigned automation and testing tasks.

• Prevent defects upstream via shift-left validation, contract tests, and pre-merge quality gates (static analysis, SCA, unit and contract coverage).

• Continuously tune automation for speed and reliability; remove flakiness, optimize waits, and keep suites fast, focused, and value-dense.

• Strengthen test data and environments through synthetic datasets, anonymized production samples, and stable, self-service environment provisioning

What will help you succeed:

• 3–5+ years of hands-on software testing and/or test automation experience, including ownership of frameworks and pipelines.

• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, including Playwright MCP, Gherkin / BDD-based testing and qTest (test management)

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps including CI/CD, environments, and test orchestration.

• Techical skills - JavaScript / TypeScript / Groovy / Python, Node.js-based automation frameworks, API test automation, writing SQL queries for data validation

• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery with experience in SAFe environments preferred and Agile tools like Jira

• Experience with AI-enabled quality tooling including GitHub Copilot/M365 Copilot or similar agentic platforms for test generation, analysis, and documentation.

• Performance testing experience with JMeter/K6 and pipeline-integrated performance gates.

• Experience with agent-mode AI workflows including autonomous test generation and RCA assistance using Spec Kits.

• Knowledge of cloud technologies, microservices architectures, and containerization (Docker).

• Experience with log and data analysis tools such as Splunk.

• B2+ English Level
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This job can be filled in Monterrey, Mexico #LI-Hybrid     

Create with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation toimpact the world positively.

We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Globant is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Globant is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.