Description
Senior QA Tester - Playwright / TypeScript - Argentina (Buenos Aires or Belgrade - Hybrid)
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Tester/Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automation solutions across multiple applications and platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about quality engineering, experienced in modern automation frameworks, and capable of driving automation adoption in agile delivery environments.
This role will play a key part 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
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Design and build automated test scripts for web, API, backend, and functional scenarios.
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Develop scalable automation suites aligned to sprint and release cycles.
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Contribute to reusable automation libraries, utilities, and test data components.
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Ensure automation scripts meet coding standards and trace back to clear requirements.
Continuous Quality Execution
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Support CI/CD integration for automated testing execution.
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Configure automation execution pipelines and generate automated reports.
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Use automation results to proactively identify defects and quality trends.
Test Strategy & Collaboration
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Work closely with product owners, dev teams, and QA analysts to define test coverage.
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Perform requirement analysis to identify automation scope early (shift-left approach).
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Participate in sprint ceremonies and represent automation within the delivery team.
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Provide estimation and effort planning for automation tasks.
Documentation & Governance
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Maintain script versioning, execution logs, and documentation.
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Support traceability, risk-based testing, and validation evidence where applicable.
Required Qualifications
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2–5 years of hands-on experience in automation engineering.
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Strong hands-on experience in at least one of the following:
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Playwright
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Selenium
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Cypress
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Provar (for Salesforce projects)
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Strong scripting/programming skills in:
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TypeScript / JavaScript
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Java / Python
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Experience with API automation tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured).
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Solid understanding of CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
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Experience executing automation within agile delivery models.
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Good knowledge of test design techniques (boundary, equivalence, data-driven, risk-based testing).
Preferred Experience
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Experience automating Salesforce applications (e.g., Health Cloud, Data Cloud, Lightning UI).
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Hands-on experience building reusable automation frameworks.
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Knowledge of performance or accessibility automation tools.
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Experience in a regulated or validated environment (e.g., GxP).
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ISTQB or QA-related certification.
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Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
Soft Skills
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Strong analytical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
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Excellent verbal and written communication.
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Self-driven with strong ownership and accountability.
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Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
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Passionate about mentoring others on automation best practices.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
http://www.syneoshealth.com
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
The Sr. QA Engineer is a key contributor within the Quality Engineer track, responsible for executing QA automated testing. This role applies risk-based testing to prioritize efforts, ensures GxP compliance where required, and practices shift-left testing by engaging early in the SDLC. Practitioners actively contribute to automation and mentor junior testers.
