Kevin Roe
Senior SDET, Ramsey Solutions
About
Kevin has been in quality engineering since 2012, spending the last 14 years building test automation frameworks and finding better ways to help teams ship with confidence. He currently works as a Senior SDET at Ramsey Solutions, where he focuses on test automation infrastructure, tooling, and helping his team level up. Outside of work, he teaches coding camps for middle and high school students and tinkers with drones, 3D printers, and spends time with his family and at his church.
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Turbocharge Your Playwright: Capabilities You're Probably Not Using
Description
Most teams use Playwright to open a browser and click through flows. But Playwright can do so much more — mock APIs, persist authentication, inject custom headers for distributed tracing, and more. In this talk, Kevin goes beyond the basics and explores the capabilities that separate a good Playwright suite from a great one. You'll leave with techniques you can add to your suite the same week.
This is not a "getting started with Playwright" talk. It's for teams that are already running Playwright tests and want to unlock capabilities they didn't know they had. I'll cover things like persisting authentication state across tests, mocking API responses to isolate your UI layer, injecting traceparent headers for distributed tracing, and intercepting network traffic — all features built into the library that most teams never touch. The goal is to get the audience thinking like testers when they read Playwright's API, spotting features that solve real testing problems rather than just following tutorials.