Senior QA Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop, implement, and sustain automated UI, API, and integration tests using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.

• Utilize AI-enhanced tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot for test design, refactoring, and failure analysis, ensuring output validation and adherence to data-handling protocols.

• Strategize and carry out functional, regression, smoke, and critical-path testing aligned with acceptance criteria.

• Identify quality risks early in the process.

• Design and uphold test data methodologies, including fixtures, isolation, and environments, to ensure reliable CI automation.

• Contribute to the layering of tests across API/component and ensure comprehensive E2E coverage.

• Execute and maintain automated test suites in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.

• Enhance test stability, reporting, and troubleshooting of failing builds.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams during agile ceremonies.

• Document scenarios and defects for swift resolution.

• Minimize flaky tests and refine test-code structure through the test pyramid and risk-based prioritization.

• Test REST/GraphQL APIs, validate contracts and payloads, and authenticate data using SQL or equivalent methods.

• Function as a hands-on individual contributor within a product engineering team focused on developing SaaS for the Atlassian and enterprise collaboration sectors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in QA with a strong emphasis on test automation as an individual contributor.

• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining tests using Playwright (UI and API) along with JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.

• Regular, practical application of AI-assisted development tools for QA tasks and the ability to critically assess AI-generated tests.

• Comprehensive experience in API and integration testing, including authentication, mocking/stubbing, and debugging across services.

• Practical knowledge of test data and automation environments, emphasizing isolation, fixtures, and stability in parallel/CI executions.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD processes, executing automated tests in pipelines, and utilizing Docker.

• Strong foundational knowledge in testing principles, such as the test pyramid, risk-based testing, agile methodologies, and the defect lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Jira or similar project management tools.

• Proficient in English, both written and verbal, to facilitate distributed collaboration.

• Experience in enhancing quality for long-term, evolving products, beyond just greenfield projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for company equity.

• 25 paid days off, increasing to 30 days of annual leave after 5 years of service.

• 24 hours of compensated volunteer time.

• Access to Appfire University, an on-demand learning platform, for continuous professional development.

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

• Fully funded Multisport Card.

• Fully financed 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 days each year for Appfire Town CSR volunteering.

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