Maestro Senior QA Challenge — Paywall Entitlements E2E

Welcome! This repo is a slimmed-down snapshot of Maestro's production Playwright + Patchright e2e framework. The substrate — auth bootstrap, role-bound projects, fixtures, and a few reference page objects — is built and working. Your job is to design and write the e2e tests for the paywall feature on video pages. The assignment lives in tests/paywall/CHALLENGE.md.

• Node 20+
• npm (a package-lock.json is committed; npm ci gives you the exact tested versions)
• Google Chrome installed (the framework launches real Chrome via channel: 'chrome', not bundled Chromium)
• A code editor of your choice (VS Code, Cursor, WebStorm, …)

npm ci
npm run test:smoke   # green = your machine is wired correctly

No credentials ship with this repo — your first run will tell you exactly what's missing. Ask your interviewer for access and put it in a .env file at the repo root.

Runs are headed and slowed down by default so you can watch them (HEADED=0 / SLOWMO=0 to override).

npm run test:paywall   # your specs (tests/paywall/)
npm test               # everything
npm run test:fast      # headless, full speed, parallel
npm run test:report    # HTML report of the last run