Building a Playwright E2E Testing Framework

Playwright as a Test Automation spine

Playwright is one of the strongest SEO and hiring keywords in modern test automation — and for good reason. For SDET work, I treat it as the execution spine of a full-chain framework, not only a browser driver.

UI-only green builds miss regressions in API contracts, cache layers, and message paths. The framework goal is End-to-End Testing across the system chain.

The full-stack validation chain

The target architecture validates:

• Frontend via Playwright
• API assertions
• Backend behavior
• MySQL / database state
• Redis cache side effects
• Message queue outcomes

What ships next

The public TypeScript + Playwright repository is upcoming. Until then, the case study documents architecture, My Role, and the hiring-facing showcase narrative.