QA Engineer - Manual & Automation (SDET)

Sagepilot builds AI-powered customer support and engagement products. We're looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to help establish our manual testing, automation, and release validation practices.

You'll work closely with a the engineering team shipping rapidly and serving live customer traffic. This role suits someone who takes ownership, understands customer impact, and enjoys building testing practices in a growing product team.

What you'll do

• Own release testing: run smoke and regression checks, validate critical customer flows, and communicate release readiness.
• Build and maintain test cases, regression checklists, and reusable test data.
• Perform exploratory testing across the product, covering edge cases, permissions, integrations, and failure scenarios.
• Write and maintain automated UI and API tests, prioritising critical flows and recurring bugs.
• Report bugs with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence; work with engineers to verify fixes.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and keep the test suite reliable as the product evolves.

What we're looking for

• 1-3 years of QA experience, including manual testing and hands-on automation.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Experience testing web applications and APIs using browser developer tools and Postman or similar tools.
• Ability to write and debug tests in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Golang.
• Familiarity with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or pytest.
• Basic SQL and Git skills, with an ability to investigate issues using logs and network requests.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, and good judgement about what to test first.

You'll fit well if:

You spot problems and act without waiting for a ticket. You enjoy ownership, move fast, and follow things through. You're comfortable with changing priorities and excited to build the QA foundation alongside a small, ambitious engineering team.