Automation Test Engineer

Job Description

Were looking for a QA Automation Engineer to help drive quality across our distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will build and maintain automated test suites, strengthen our CI/CD pipelines, and ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and reliable.

This is a hands-on engineering role within a modern, collaborative team focused on continuous improvement, transparency, and delivering high-impact products.

What Youll Do

Manual & Exploratory Testing

• Execute manual test cases for UI, API, and end-to-end user workflows.

• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and user-impacting defects.

• Document clear, reproducible bug reports and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.

• Validate business requirements and user acceptance criteria through hands-on testing.

Automation Engineering

• Develop and maintain automated tests for UI, API, microservices, and integration layers.

• Contribute to scalable, reusable automation frameworks stored in GitHub.

• Create validations for distributed systems, service-to-service interactions, queues, and API contracts.

Quality Ownership

• Work closely with developers and product partners to understand story details and test requirements.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution.

• Support exploratory, UAT, and end-to-end testing for user-focused scenarios.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in code reviews, GitHub workflows, and team automation practices.

• Engage in team learning sessions and internal quality improvement initiatives.

• Contribute ideas to improve testing approaches and overall product quality.

What You Bring Core Skills

• 2-5 years of hands-on experience in QA automation or test engineering.

• Familiarity with writing test cases, test plans, and defect documentation.

• Understanding of functional testing, regression testing, and user-flow validation

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript for test automation.

• Understanding of WebdriverIO and/or Playwright.

• Proven ability to automate UI, API, and integration scenarios.

• Familiar with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or similar cloud platforms.

Tooling & Engineering Basics

• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.

• Basic understanding of REST APIs and modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM).

• Awareness of CI/CD principles is beneficial.

Data & Application Knowledge

• Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries.

• Good understanding of modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM). Ways of Working

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

• Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.

• Attention to detail and a passion for delivering quality.

• Curiosity and adaptability with a desire to continually improve testing skills.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to SQL basics.

• Awareness of performance or accessibility testing concepts.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) through university or personal projects.

• Understanding of accessibility testing principles (WCAG 2.1 AA).