Senior QA Automation Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Actively engage in Agile ceremonies such as technical refinement, planning sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Challenge existing assumptions, refine acceptance criteria, and foresee potential failure scenarios.

• Design, document, and maintain comprehensive test plans, traceability matrices, and test scenarios and cases based on operational risks.

• Oversee the entire defect lifecycle, from identification and reproduction to prioritization, reporting, and retesting.

• Perform advanced exploratory manual testing.

• Structure, execute, and uphold automated test suites.

• Validate contracts, payloads, business rules, and rate limits during API and integration testing.

• Ensure the integrity, persistence, and consistency of transactional rules through SQL queries.

• Integrate and support automated tests within CI/CD pipelines, encompassing smoke tests, continuous regression testing, and quality gates.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong background in software quality practices within multidisciplinary Agile teams.

• Active involvement in refinement sessions, estimation, planning, and ongoing process improvements.

• Skilled in creating test plans and designing test cases and scenarios.

• Excellent technical abilities in bug reporting and tracking.

• Hands-on experience in both exploratory manual testing and automated testing.

• Practical understanding of black-box and gray-box testing methodologies.

• Familiarity with regression testing and smoke testing processes.

• Proficient in test design techniques, including equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and state transition testing.

• Expertise in REST API testing, covering CRUD operations, contract testing, headers, status codes, and concurrency rules.

• Capability to create dynamic and complex payloads for service-to-service integrations.

• Practical SQL knowledge for validating data sets, ensuring relational consistency, and maintaining persistent business rules.

• Experience in creating, configuring, and sustaining automated tests in CI/CD pipelines.

• Preferred: experience in financial markets, stock exchanges, market infrastructure, or the energy sector.

• Preferred: familiarity with Playwright or Cypress using JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Preferred: knowledge of relational databases and PL/SQL.

• Preferred: experience with AWS.

• Preferred: working knowledge of Jira, Xray, or Zephyr.

• Preferred: experience in regulated environments, fintechs, payment services, or the electric power/energy sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Continuous knowledge sharing among technology professionals.

• Opportunities to transition to new internal projects.

• Direct engagement with leadership and clients.

• Close support from the People team and Business Partner.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Career support and guidance.