Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote to join our innovative team at Remote People. As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of our SaaS platform while working in a fully remote environment. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality software and thrive in a collaborative setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

What You'll Do

• Join one of our cross-functional squads, collaborating with Frontend and Backend Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers.
• Actively participate in the development of business-critical features for the Horizons SaaS platform.
• Develop automated tests for both new features and regression scenarios.
• Conduct functional, system integration, and regression testing to validate application functionality against business requirements, with occasional manual testing as needed.
• Prioritize and triage bugs reported by clients, providing detailed insights and actionable recommendations.
• Timely and accurately report defects found during testing.
• Track defects from discovery through to resolution, ensuring validation and verification post-fix.
• Constantly monitor and reduce the ratio of end-user found to QA found defects.
• Keep QA impact on the release schedule to a minimum.
• Contribute to requirements review and prioritization by bringing a QA perspective.

Requirements

• Decent coding experience, enabling efficient test automation.
• Minimum of 5 years in Quality Assurance or Software Development roles.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for test automation is a must.
• Proficiency in API testing and automation.
• Familiarity with issue tracking tools, preferably JIRA, and version control, preferably Git.
• Experience in creating, maintaining, and executing rich manual testing plans.
• Proficiency with test case management tools.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

What We Offer

• Growing international Engineering team on two continents (Asia and Europe), working on in-house products.
• Chance to contribute to cutting-edge projects and technologies.
• Work alongside other talented Engineers in an environment fostering collaboration, personal development, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.