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A QA Test Automation Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor writing and maintaining test scripts. A QA Automation Lead sets the test automation strategy and tooling standards across an engineering organisation and mentors other QA engineers, a natural next step for automation engineers with 5+ years of experience.
Playwright has overtaken Selenium in new job postings due to faster execution and better built-in support for modern web frameworks, but Selenium experience is still widely useful since a large share of existing enterprise test suites are built on it. Learning both keeps the widest range of roles open.