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You’re comfortable digging into code, tracking down stubborn bugs, and figuring out why a test that worked yesterday has decided to ruin everyone’s morning. You build automated testing frameworks that are reliable, easy to maintain, and ready to grow with the business. And you’re always looking for ways to make the whole thing work better.\nIf that sounds like your kind of work, we’ve got a friendly team, plenty of technical challenges, and a meaningful mission we’d love you to be part of. Let’s chat!\nAlgaeCal is on the lookout for a Senior QA Developer to bring their skills to our lively QA team and help transform lives, one stable release at a time.\nSmall print here ⇒ We’re an eCommerce company. So, we want you to have eCommerce experience. Lots of it. You’ll be helping us improve the quality, stability, and reliability of our React-based storefront and internal middleware. So if automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and digital marketing technology don’t light at least a small fire in your belly, you probably shouldn’t read any further.\nStill here? Okay then…\nThis job might be for you if you’ve got…\n3+ years of QA development experience. You’ve built, maintained, and improved automated testing strategies, and you can tell us what worked, what didn’t, and what you changed along the way.\nStrong JavaScript and TypeScript skills. You’re comfortable getting into the code, writing reliable automated tests, and coming back six months later without wondering what on earth you were thinking.\nHands-on experience with Cypress, Playwright, or similar testing frameworks. You know how to investigate unreliable tests, improve coverage, and keep a growing test suite running smoothly.\nThe ability to build testing frameworks that can grow with the business. You think about how everything fits together, how easy it is to maintain, and whether it’ll still do the job as things get more complex. You’ll put that thinking to work across our Shopify Hydrogen storefront and backend middleware.\nExperience integrating automated tests into cloud-based CI/CD pipelines. You know how to get the right checks running at the right time, so developers get useful feedback quickly and releases move forward with fewer headaches.\nA good handle on quality reporting. Test coverage, execution times, pipeline stability, recurring failures, and bugs reaching production. You can use those numbers to explain how things are going and where we need to improve.\nExperience testing APIs and investigating performance. API contract testing, load testing, and browser developer tools should be familiar territory. When something slows down or stops behaving, you know where to start looking.\nA few extra tools in your kit. Experience with Python, PHP, Figma, Storybook, or Jest would earn you a few bonus points. You don’t need the full set, so tell us what you’ve worked with.\nNow, time to be honest: is this really you?\nIf you’re nodding your head and feeling that flutter of excitement, then we can’t wait to meet you.\nOther Qualities You’ll Need\nAt AlgaeCal, we’re going to insist that you have these 3 qualities:\nYou’re humble - you put the team and others’ needs ahead of your own\nYou’re hungry to learn more\nYou’re people smart - in the sense that you’re a great teammate\nThe truth is, if you don’t have these qualities, you won’t last long at AlgaeCal. So if you’re missing one of them, be honest. Save yourself a lot of headaches and skip to a job posting that is a better fit for you.\nWhat Will You Earn?\nThe salary for this position is $80,000 to $100,000, depending on your experience. If your salary expectations differ from this range, please let us know!\nYou’ll also enjoy the following benefits:\nA generous healthcare package\nMonthly team events and activities\nFlexible Stat Holidays with the option to bank days for later use\nWeekly team lunches\nCasual dress code\nIncredible dog-friendly office\nAnd above all, you’ll join a team that you’ll never want to leave. Culture is everything to us. Yes, we work extremely hard to change as many people’s lives as possible. But we know how to have fun and reward ourselves too.\nHow To Apply\nSo, do you have what it takes to become the next member of team AlgaeCal?\nJob opportunities like this don’t come along often, and we’ve got a lot to offer our successful applicant. So, to make sure our future Senior QA Developer is the real-deal, will be a great fit, and will thrive at AlgaeCal, we ask a little more than your run-of-the-mill job application:\nIf this sounds like a position for you, please respond to this advertisement with your resume and cover letter. Please, read carefully:\n1. Write a cover letter addressing:\nWhy are you the best Senior QA Developer for this role? Give quantifiable examples of related achievements, especially around automation frameworks, CI/CD testing, defect reduction, flaky test reduction, QA metrics, or mentoring other QA developers.\nDescribe why you fit perfectly with our values. Read them here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1deCCJZ6tiDiOSlr_W0UdCuM_V_ahzPBs/view\nWhat's the toughest challenge you’ve ever overcome in your life? How did you overcome it?\nWhat are the last three books you’ve read?\nWhat do you do for fun?\n2. 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