Lead QA Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Bulgaria.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance essential Playwright UI and API automation.

• Advance shared automation patterns, standards, and quality checkpoints across teams.

• Serve as the main technical point of contact for unstable suites, CI bottlenecks, test data and environment challenges, and critical-path regressions.

• Establish and refine test data and environment frameworks for dependable CI/CD scaling.

• Provide guidance on API, component-level, and end-to-end testing strategies, focusing on layering, coverage, and automation scope.

• Mentor QA engineers on Playwright, CI, and AI-assisted workflows.

• Advocate for reusable methodologies across various teams.

• Collaborate with DevOps and developers on shift-left testing, pipeline reliability, and sustainable Docker-based testing environments.

• Convey quality trade-offs and risks to product and engineering leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in QA/test engineering, with a focus on evolving Playwright automation for large, long-term SaaS products.

• Proficient in Playwright for UI and API automation.

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.

• Extensive daily utilization of AI-assisted development for test design, failure analysis, and coaching.

• Strong judgment on when human verification is essential.

• Capable of diagnosing and resolving systemic quality issues, including parallelism, test data, flakiness, and pipeline design.

• Solid CI/CD experience in executing and enhancing automated testing suites.

• Familiarity with Docker in cloud-based delivery environments.

• Experience in defining automation architecture and quality standards applicable beyond a single team.

• Proficient in English.

• Established credibility with developers, architects, and leadership regarding risks and priorities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for company equity.

• 25 paid vacation days, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of employment.

• 24 hours of paid volunteer time.

• Access to Appfire University, an on-demand learning platform.

• Comprehensive health insurance through UNIQA, fully covered by the company.

• Fully subsidized Multisport Card.

• Fully funded Sofia City Transport Card.

• Pre-paid Pluxee lunch card with a monthly budget of 102.26 EURO.

• One-time net Baby Bonus of 511 EURO upon the birth of a child.

• Three fully paid volunteering days each year through Appfire Town.

• Fully remote work options within Bulgaria, with the possibility to work from the Sofia office.