Selenium to Playwright migration

Selenium to Playwright migration without breaking coverage

I help teams replace slow Selenium suites with Playwright in stages. The goal is not a rewrite for its own sake. It is faster feedback, fewer flaky tests, and a migration path that keeps release coverage intact.

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Best fit

  • Teams with Selenium suites that take hours to run
  • QA groups fighting Grid maintenance or random timing failures
  • Engineering leaders who need a staged migration plan

Outcomes

  • A migration map ranked by release risk and maintenance cost
  • Playwright equivalents for the highest-value Selenium flows
  • CI running old and new suites during the transition
  • A handoff guide for converting the remaining coverage

Proof

  • Migrated brittle legacy browser suites for enterprise teams without stopping release trains.
  • Reduced one Apple legacy test path from slow manual/debug cycles to repeatable Playwright feedback.
  • Used Cypress-to-TypeScript and Selenium-to-Playwright patterns across health tech and e-commerce teams.

How the work runs

01

Map the Selenium inventory

We classify tests by risk, runtime, failure rate, and business flow so the first migration work has visible payoff.

02

Build the Playwright lane

I set up Playwright, TypeScript, fixtures, reports, and CI in parallel with Selenium so releases stay covered.

03

Migrate by business flow

We move checkout, login, account, payment, or other critical flows first, then retire Selenium paths once Playwright proves stable.

Common questions

Do we have to migrate every Selenium test?

No. Many old tests are duplicate or low value. I help identify what to migrate, what to rewrite, and what to delete.

Can Selenium and Playwright run together during migration?

Yes. A staged migration usually runs both until the Playwright suite covers the critical release paths.

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