Master Test Automation Using Playwright Js In The Age Of Ai

Build Smarter, Faster, Flawless Automation in 2025 - Practical Playwright Skills for Intelligent, Reliable Testing

What you'll learn

Learn JavaScript fundamentals required for Playwright Automation

How to install playwright from scratch in visual studio code

Playwright best practices for automating test cases: POM (Page Object Model)

How to interact with different UI components such as: input fields, radio buttons, check boxes

What is Trace Viewer, Code Gen, and Playwright Inspector: How we can Use them

How can we Integrate our Playwright Test using Github Actions

How to Create Automated Tests using Plain English with Latest AI models (Claude Sonnet 4)

End to End Automation using Playwright JS for A demo website

Requirements

No programming experience needed: We will start from the very beginning

Description

Welcome to Master Test Automation using Playwright JS in the Age of AI — your complete, hands-on journey to becoming a modern QA/Automation Engineer ready for 2025 and beyond.This course is designed for beginners, intermediate testers, and developers who want to build reliable, scalable, and future-proof end-to-end test automation frameworks using Playwright. Whether you’re transitioning from Selenium/Cypress or starting your automation career, this course gives you the real-world skills recruiters and teams demand.Here’s what we’ll cover in depth:Welcome & Intro — Meet your instructor, understand the target audience, and explore the career-changing benefits of mastering Playwright.Playwright in Action — See Playwright’s real-world use cases: cross-browser testing, mobile emulation, and AI-assisted debugging.Getting Started — Learn prerequisites, tools, and the environment setup you’ll need before diving in.JavaScript for Playwright — A practical JS refresher covering variables, arrays, functions, promises, and async/await—just enough to be productive.Playwright Installation & Project Structure — Install Node.js, configure Playwright, and set up a clean, scalable folder structure.Core Concepts — Locators, assertions, waits, fixtures, and test configuration to eliminate flaky tests.Page Object Model (POM) — Learn how to structure reusable, maintainable test suites with best practices and design patterns.In-Built Tools & CLI Commands — Harness Playwright Inspector, Codegen, and Trace Viewer for rapid debugging and faster feedback loops.End-to-End Automation — Build real tests against demo websites: forms, tables, uploads, logins, and checkout flows.CI/CD with GitHub Actions — Integrate Playwright into CI pipelines, add reporting (HTML/Allure), and set up caching, retries, and matrix builds.AI-Powered Test Creation — Write and refine tests in plain English using the latest AI models (Claude Sonnet 4, Grok), bridging natural language and automation.By the end of this course, you’ll:Be confident in building production-grade Playwright frameworks.Master debugging tools, flaky-test strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.Create portfolio-ready projects you can showcase in job applications.Explore how AI is reshaping the future of test automation—and learn to use it to your advantage.If you’re serious about test automation in the AI era, this is the course that will set you apart.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome & Intro - (Instructor, Intended Audience & Course Learning Benefits)

Lecture 1 Welcome & Introduction

Lecture 2 Learning Outcomes

Lecture 3 Intended Audience

Section 2: Playwright in Action & Real world Use Cases

Lecture 4 Introduction

Lecture 5 Why Playwright in 2025

Lecture 6 What is playwright

Lecture 7 What are playwright key & Advanced Features

Lecture 8 Playwright Comparison & Real world benefits

Lecture 9 Action Items for Next Section

Lecture 10 Playwright Use Cases

Section 3: Getting Started (Pre requisite for Playwright setup)

Lecture 11 Install Vs Code, Node.js for setting up Playwright environment

Section 4: JavaScript for Playwright

Lecture 12 Introduction

Lecture 13 Core Concepts: Variables, Data types, Operators, Conditionals, Loops

Lecture 14 Functions & Scope: function declaration vs expression, Arrow functions

Lecture 15 Objects in JS

Lecture 16 Asynchronous JavaScript: Event Loop, Callbacks, Promises, Aysnc/Await

Section 5: Getting Started with Playwright Core Concepts

Lecture 17 What is Async and Await? Why It is important for Playwright Automation

Lecture 18 What is fixture & Hooks in Playwright? Understanding its importance & Its role

Lecture 19 Different type of Locators & Assertions in Playwright

Section 6: Understanding Page Object Model (POM) - Design Pattern & Best Practices

Lecture 20 What is Page Object Model? Its Importance and benefit

Lecture 21 A practical example using playwright

Section 7: Playwright in built tools & CLI Commands - Inspector, Codegen, Traceviewer

Lecture 22 What is Trace viewer? test traces , logs, HTML reports & screenshots

Lecture 23 What is Playwright Inspector? How can we debug our tests using this tool

Lecture 24 What is Codegen? How can we record, locate element, and perform assertions

Section 8: End to End (E2E) Web Automation with Playwright using a demo website

Lecture 25 Introduction & Walkthrough of the demo website and test cases

Lecture 26 Authentication Module: Valid/Invalid Credentials (Assertions, Auto wait, POM)

Lecture 27 Valid/Invalid, Search & File Uploads (SetInput Files, Locators, POM, Assertions)

Lecture 28 Edit & Delete Employees (Custom Dropdown, Form handling, Tables)

Lecture 29 Source Code

Section 9: CI/CD Integration of Playwright tests using GitHub Actions

Lecture 30 Introduction

Lecture 31 Practical Demonstration

Section 10: Create tests in Plain English using Latest AI Models (Claude Sonnet 4, Grok)

Lecture 32 Introduction to Agentic AI in context with test Automation

Lecture 33 Setting Up Playwright MCP Server and creating your first test

Lecture 34 Pro's and Con's: A balanced View

Software testers,Quality Assurance Engineers,Test Automation Engineers,JavaScript developers,QA Engineers who want to transitions to SDET Roles