QA Engineer – Manual & Automation

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

📋 Description

• Lead automated testing initiatives across the platform, maintaining a balanced approach with approximately 50% manual and 50% automation efforts.

• Participate in social media reporting projects.

• Conduct reviews of automation code to uphold high engineering standards.

• Analyze requirements, user stories, and designs to detect gaps, edge cases, and concerns regarding testability.

• Create and sustain test plans, test cases, and checklists utilizing BrowserStack Test Management.

• Execute functional, exploratory, regression, smoke, and UAT-support testing for both web and mobile platforms.

• Perform cross-browser and cross-device testing, ensuring responsive layouts and real-device evaluations.

• Manually validate APIs and back-end functionality using Postman or similar tools.

• Reproduce, document, and categorize defects with detailed steps, evidence, severity, and priority.

• Collaborate with Product and Development teams during sprint ceremonies to clarify acceptance criteria and approve releases.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated end-to-end and API tests using Playwright with TypeScript.

• Implement Page Object Model, fixtures, reusable helpers, and manage test data effectively.

• Identify manual test cases suitable for automation and transform stable, high-value scenarios into regression coverage.

• Investigate and resolve flaky tests using Playwright Trace Viewer, logs, screenshots, and video evidence.

• Integrate testing suites into CI/CD pipelines, enabling parallel execution and cross-browser testing on BrowserStack Automate.

• Report automation outcomes and quality metrics, including coverage, pass rates, and defect trends.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience with Playwright utilizing TypeScript.

• Proficient in Playwright Trace Debugging.

• Familiarity with BrowserStack Test Management.

• Experience with BrowserStack Automate.

• Demonstrated ability to define and implement automation requirements for new features.

• Strong foundation in Computer Science principles.

• Experience in setting up and maintaining Continuous Integration systems.

• Proficient in reporting, tracking, and triaging bugs while resolving complex technical issues.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Solid background in manual testing, including test case design, exploratory testing, regression, and smoke testing.

• Comprehensive understanding of QA methodologies and test design techniques (e.g., boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, risk-based testing).

• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams and utilizing defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira).

• Hands-on experience with API testing, both manually (using Postman or similar) and automated (via Playwright's API testing).

• Comfortable using Git, participating in code reviews, and engaging in pull request workflows.

• Proficient in English, both written and spoken.

• Nice to have: Hands-on experience with native mobile and web QA automation (Appium, WDIO).

• Nice to have: Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD.

• Nice to have: Experience with GitHub Actions or other CI tools.

• Nice to have: Basic SQL skills for data validation.

• Nice to have: Exposure to accessibility testing (WCAG) and visual regression testing.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with performance testing tools (k6, JMeter).

• Nice to have: ISTQB or similar QA certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Remote-first work culture.

• Opportunities for career advancement across various industries and technologies.