Quality Assurance Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the quality strategy for features and domains, encompassing test plans, risk assessments, and coverage decisions.

• Detect ambiguities and gaps in testability during the review of requirements.

• Establish acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product.

• Balance manual exploratory testing with automated regression testing for comprehensive coverage.

• Create and document test plans, coverage decisions, and known risks.

• Develop and maintain automated tests for API, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.

• Ensure that automation suites are efficient, reliable, and easy to maintain.

• Oversee CI/CD integration for executing tests.

• Utilize observability tools to monitor production features.

• Address developer escalations and incidents by evaluating impact, conducting targeted regression testing, isolating root causes, and communicating results.

• Utilize AI tools on a daily basis to generate test cases and data, draft test plans, analyze bug trends, and expedite automation development.

• Critique AI-generated test outputs and prioritize testing based on risk factors.

• Compose clear and reproducible bug reports, advocating for quality prior to release.

• Collaborate with developers to enhance testability and pinpoint untested scenarios.

• Guide junior QAs at L3+ and set AI quality standards for L3/L4 levels.

• Engage in a shared engineering on-call rotation, approximately one week per month after initial training.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid understanding of testing fundamentals, including test strategy, test case design, and risk-based prioritization.

• Practical experience with automation using Playwright.

• Proficient in API testing with Postman/REST clients and interpreting application logs.

• Currently using, or highly motivated to adopt, AI tools within a QA workflow.

• Excellent written communication skills for creating actionable bug reports and test plans.

• Background in API testing, browser automation, and unit/integration test frameworks.

• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, AWS CloudWatch, application logs, metrics dashboards, PHP/TypeScript, Ruby/TypeScript, MariaDB, Redis, and AWS.

• Experience in testing e-commerce, payments, or subscription platforms is a plus.

• Familiarity with PHP, TypeScript, or Ruby codebases is advantageous.

• Experience with AWS/CloudWatch or similar observability tools is a bonus.

• Familiarity with GitHub Actions or alternative CI/CD pipelines is desirable.

• Level expectations range from 0–1 years for L1, 1–3 years for L2, 3–6 years for L3, and 6+ years for L4.

🏝️ Benefits

• Participate in a shared on-call rotation with engineering (~1 week/month after training).

• Engage in regular knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Work in an open environment that encourages active participation in shaping the platform.

• Career progression opportunities: Junior QA → QA Engineer 1 → Senior QA → Lead QA → Head of Quality.