Level 5 · Test Automation Architect

Architect Practice

Three hands-on exercises using only free tools. Build a multi-environment Playwright config, schedule monitoring runs in the cloud and on your local box, and containerise your tests with Docker. Every step has copy-pasteable code and a verified output.

01

Multi-Project Config

Configure three Playwright projects (dev / staging / prod) in one playwright.config.ts and switch between them with --project= or an env var.

Free tool: Playwright + Node.js

 02

Scheduled Monitoring

Run your tests on a schedule two ways: a GitHub Actions cron workflow every 30 minutes on a public repo, and a local Newman cron/Task Scheduler job.

Free tools: GitHub Actions + Playwright, Postman CLI (Newman) + cron

 03

Containerise with Docker

Write a Dockerfile that runs Playwright tests in a clean container, build the image locally, and execute the test suite end to end.

Free tool: Docker Desktop (personal / small-business) + Playwright

 04

Agentic AI Orchestration

Design a multi-agent quality mesh for autonomous failure analysis, self-healing, and immutable auditing.

Free tool: Playwright + Agentic AI APIs
Before you start: every exercise is self-contained — you can tackle them in any order. All three build on patterns from the Architect Learning modules (in particular Infrastructure as Code and Scalability Patterns). The targets used in the code samples are all public, ToS-safe sites: playwright.dev, example.com, saucedemo.com, jsonplaceholder.typicode.com, and reqres.in.
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