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At First Advantage (Nasdaq: FA), people are at the heart of everything we do. From our customers and partners to our greatest advantage - our team members.\nSay hello to a rewarding career and come join a leading provider of mission-critical background screening solutions to some of the most recognized Fortune 100 and Global 500 brands.\nAbout First Advantage\nFirst Advantage (NASDAQ: FA) is a leading provider of global software and data in the HR technology industry. Enabled by proprietary technology and AI, First Advantage’s platforms, data, and APIs power comprehensive employment background screening, identity solutions, and verification services.\nHeadquartered in Atlanta, GA, we have an internationally distributed workforce of about 10,000 employees spanning 17 countries. With a strong emphasis on innovation, automation, and customer success, First Advantage empowers 80,000 organizations to modernize their hiring and onboarding processes on a global scale.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to drive quality and automation excellence across our modern, distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will design and implement automated test frameworks, strengthen CI/CD quality gates, and ensure our systems remain resilient, scalable, and reliable.\nThis is a hands on engineering role, with ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to contribute to global platforms and high impact initiatives. You’ll work in a collaborative, modern engineering environment, where sharing knowledge and working transparently is part of our culture.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAutomation Engineering\nDesign, develop, and maintain automated test suites for UI, API, microservices, and integration layers.\nBuild scalable, reusable automation frameworks and utilities stored and maintained in GitHub.\nDevelop automated validations for distributed systems, service-to-service flows, queue-based messaging, and API contracts.\nQuality Ownership\nPartner with developers and product teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality gates.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure consistent, reliable execution.\nSupport exploratory, UAT, and end-to-end testing as needed to validate user-centric scenarios.\nTechnical Leadership & Continuous Improvement\nContribute to engineering best practices around code quality, observability, automation design, and performance testing.\nParticipate in GitHub-based workflows: pull requests, code reviews, branching strategies, and reusable automation libraries.\nMentor team members and support internal learning initiatives.\n\nWhat You Bring\nCore Automation Skills\n5-7 years of hands-on experience in QA automation or test engineering. (Senior enough to own frameworks, but not artificially inflated.)\nStrong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript-based test automation.\nExpertise in WebdriverIO and/or Playwright (your team’s primary tools).\nSolid experience designing and maintaining UI, API, and integration test automation.\nExperience working with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or similar cloud testing platforms.\nFramework & Architecture Skills\nAbility to design, maintain, and scale automation frameworks (preferably Node.js/TypeScript).\nStrong understanding of API testing, including REST.\nExperience with contract testing and schema validation.\nUnderstanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API communication patterns.\nKnowledge of BDD frameworks (Cucumber).\nDevOps & Tooling\nHands-on experience with GitHub Actions (pipelines, workflows, test execution).\nStrong Git skills: branching strategies, code reviews, PR quality.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD concepts and optimizing test pipelines.\nData & Application Knowledge\nAbility to write and understand SQL queries.\nGood understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM).\nWays of Working\nComfortable working in Agile/Scrum with engineering, product, and design teams.\nStrong communicator, able to influence engineering quality practices.\nOwnership mindset: proactive, takes initiative, drives improvements end-to-end.\nDetail-oriented tester with a balance of risk-based testing and pragmatism.\nCurious, adaptable, and committed to continuous learning and improving the test ecosystem.\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with serverless environments (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions).\nExperience with performance testing (e.g., k6, Gatling).\nUnderstanding of accessibility testing principles (WCAG 2.1 AA).\nWhy Join Us\nBuild at Scale: Your work powers products used globally by enterprises and millions of applicants.\nModern Tech Stack: Cloud-native, microservices-based, API-first platforms with modern tooling.\nLearning & Growth: Work with global teams, modern engineering practices, and opportunities for continuous innovation.\nCollaborative Culture: Open communication, team ownership, and customer-inspired values.\nGreat Work Environment: A modern office in central Kraków, flexible hybrid work options, and a competitive benefits package.\nWe have great people here and are looking for more. 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