QA Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Conduct manual testing of new features prior to their release, covering both positive and negative scenarios.

• Lead the preparation for releases and perform post-release testing, including managing code freezes, identifying changes, smoke testing, and regression testing.

• Create and sustain automated test suites for API, web UI, and service-to-service interactions.

• Take ownership of and maintain the proxy and testing environment that simulates production message transmission.

• Ensure test environments are continually updated to incorporate new functionalities and accurately reflect real-world production conditions.

• Reproduce issues encountered by clients and end-users, documenting the steps to replicate, along with trace IDs, log excerpts, and relevant metrics.

• Establish and configure frameworks for performance and load testing.

• Execute scheduled performance and load tests, facilitating the review of results.

• Configure and manage testing and staging environments.

• Organize automated test executions through CI, confirming the integrity of environments, keys, queues, and AWS metrics.

• Collaborate with the product manager during the requirements gathering phase and document manual test cases accordingly.

• Continuously enhance the team's QA processes over time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with modern UI and API automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or similar tools.

• Proficient in writing, reviewing, and independently modifying automation code.

• Strong focus on testing and attention to detail.

• Capable of crafting clear and comprehensive test cases, as well as systematically reproducing bugs.

• Understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including producer/consumer and pub/sub patterns.

• Knowledgeable about consumer lag, message redelivery and duplication, poison messages, and dead-letter queues.

• Ability to trace logical operations across various services and queues.

• Familiarity with AWS.

• Experience with Lambda.

• Knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.

• Familiarity with queue systems, particularly BullMQ or similar.

• Experience with DocumentDB.

• Familiarity with Redis.

• Some understanding of DevOps practices for setting up environments and scheduling test executions.

• Comfortable utilizing AI tools to enhance testing and generate automation code.

• General engineering and scripting capabilities in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.

• Ability to build tools and test harnesses, as well as modify automation code for AI agents.

• Capacity to develop product empathy and grasp real-world application behavior.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engagement as a 1099 contractor.

• Completely remote work environment.

• Flexible scheduling options.

• Overlap with US time zones.