Senior QA Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assess business needs and formulate risk-oriented testing strategies.

• Conduct functional, regression, API, and exploratory testing on web applications and distributed services.

• Create and sustain UI test automation utilizing Playwright.

• Verify backend services and ensure data integrity.

• Record defects and analyze root causes of production problems through application logs and telemetry.

• Serve as a quality champion during Agile ceremonies.

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to identify risks early and clarify acceptance criteria.

• Refine CI/CD pipelines and enhance system observability.

• Advance quality engineering standards and best practices throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, Quality Engineering, or a similar field.

• Profound knowledge of software testing methodologies, risk-based testing, SDLC, STLC, Agile development practices, and Quality Engineering principles.

• Experience in testing contemporary web applications, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Proficiency in creating or upholding automated UI tests using Playwright or comparable modern automation frameworks.

• Experience in validating API requests, responses, business rules, and downstream data integrity.

• Skilled in performing impact analysis and defining regression scope for modifications affecting shared services or multiple applications.

• Familiarity with software architecture concepts, including service-oriented and microservices-based applications.

• Exposure to cloud-native applications, modern software delivery practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Bonus: Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), security, or compliance testing practices.

• Bonus: Experience with API testing tools like Postman, Bruno, Insomnia, or similar.

• Bonus: Experience in testing event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, or supplier/third-party integrations.

• Bonus: Familiarity with observability platforms, centralized logging, distributed tracing, or APM tools.

• Bonus: Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized application deployments.

• Bonus: Experience in performance, load, or resilience testing using k6, JMeter, or similar tools.

• Bonus: Experience in contributing to automation frameworks, reusable test utilities, or shared Quality Engineering tooling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly USD Service Fee.

• 20 business days of paid Agreed Time Off—Annual + 6 Local Holidays.

• Caregiver Time Off.

• Dynamic remote work culture; work from anywhere.

• Entrepreneurial environment.