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As the only international firm led by industry experts, our team is dedicated to reshaping the field with cutting-edge, technology-driven services, including Planet Pro™, our AI-powered litigation technology suite. Planet Depos is building new software to replace a legacy platform, and we are shipping it every sprint.\nWe need a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build the automated tests that tell us, quickly and reliably, whether a change is ready to release. 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