Senior QA Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

• Leverage AI-powered tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot for designing tests, refactoring, and analyzing failures while ensuring output validation and adherence to data-handling protocols.

• Strategize and conduct functional, regression, smoke, and critical-path testing.

• Assess testing against established acceptance criteria and identify quality risks proactively.

• Develop and manage test data strategies, incorporating fixtures, isolation, and environments, to ensure reliable CI automation suites.

• Contribute to the layering of tests across API/component and comprehensive end-to-end coverage.

• Execute and oversee automated suites within CI/CD frameworks such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.

• Enhance CI stability and reporting while troubleshooting failing builds.

• Engage in agile ceremonies alongside engineering and product teams.

• Record scenarios and defects for swift resolution.

• Minimize flaky tests, refine test code architecture, and implement test-pyramid and risk-based prioritization strategies.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Regular, practical application of AI-assisted tools in QA tasks and the capability to critically evaluate AI-generated tests.

• Robust experience in API and integration testing, covering authentication, mocking/stubbing, and debugging across various services.

• Practical knowledge of test data and automation settings, including isolation, fixtures, and stability during parallel/CI executions.

• Direct CI/CD experience running automated tests in pipelines and familiarity with Docker.

• Strong foundational knowledge in testing principles: test pyramid, risk-based testing, agile methodologies, and defect lifecycle management.

• Familiarity with Jira or similar tools.

• Exceptional command of English, both written and verbal, to facilitate distributed collaboration.

• Experience in enhancing quality for long-term, evolving products, not limited to new projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Indefinite contract of employment.

• Eligibility for company equity.

• Annual paid vacation of 26 days.

• Wellness Days: 1 day per month, non-transferable.

• 24 hours of paid volunteer time.

• Comprehensive Luxmed private healthcare plan fully covered.

• Options for healthcare coverage extensions and upgrades for partners.

• Life insurance provided by UNUM, fully funded by Appfire.

• MyBenefit Platform: 150 PLN per month for a Multisport card or for shopping, dining, and entertainment.

• Home Office Allowance: 200 PLN net per month to cover electricity and internet expenses while working remotely.

• Lunch Card: 300 PLN monthly for grocery purchases or dining out via a virtual pre-paid Pluxee card.