QA Automation Engineer

We are hiring QA Engineers who can do both manual testing and test automation. You will own quality end-to-end for the features, design and execute test cases, do exploratory and regression testing, and then automate the high-value flows in Playwright with TypeScript so they are protected forever. This is not a "manual now, automation later" role; both happen in the same sprint, by the same person.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Manual Testing and Quality Ownership:

• Own quality for features from requirements review through release sign-off.
• Design, document, and execute test cases covering functional, regression, integration, system, and exploratory testing across our web app, responsive mobile web, and Chrome extension.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, and stand-ups; review user stories and surface ambiguities before development starts.
• Reproduce, isolate, and document defects with clear repro steps, expected vs. actual behavior, logs, and screenshots/recordings.
• Maintain test case repositories in Confluence; keep documentation current as features evolve.

Test Automation:

• Design, build, and maintain UI and API automation in Playwright with TypeScript using the Page Object Model, fixtures, and data-driven patterns.
• Write automation alongside the feature, not after release. Automate critical paths within the same sprint as the manual test pass.
• Build and maintain API test coverage using Playwright's request fixture; supplement with Postman for exploratory and contract checks where appropriate.
• Tag, organize, and parallelize tests so the suite stays fast.
• Investigate and fix flaky tests with the same rigor as production bugs; flakiness erodes trust in the suite.
• Maintain CI/CD integration via Bitbucket Pipelines: PR validation, nightly cross-browser regression, post-deploy production smoke, and scheduled health checks.

Collaboration and Process:

• Log, track, and report defects in Jira; collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile / Scrum environment with weekly releases.
• Partner with frontend engineers contributing their first Playwright tests: review their PRs and help establish conventions (data-testid usage, locator priorities, and naming).
• Contribute to the weekly "escaped bug" review when a production bug slips through, help analyze why, and convert it into a permanent regression test.
• Report on quality metrics: open defects, severity distribution, regression coverage, automation suite runtime, and flake rate.

Requirements:

• Our stack is intentionally TypeScript end-to-end, so QA and engineering share one language. Frontend engineers also contribute Playwright tests, so you will collaborate closely with developers and help shape conventions, frameworks, and CI pipelines.
• Experience: 2 to 5 years in software quality assurance, with hands-on exposure to both manual testing and UI automation.
• 2+ years of hands-on QA experience on web applications (SaaS / B2B preferred), with real exposure to BOTH manual testing and UI automation.
• Strong manual test design skills: equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, decision tables, and exploratory charters; the ability to write test cases that another QA could pick up and execute.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or a similar modern framework. Solid TypeScript / JavaScript fundamentals: async / await, promises, modules, basic typing, and the ES standard library.
• Working knowledge of test framework concepts: Page Object Model, fixtures, data-driven testing, and parallel execution.
• Proficient at writing reliable selectors; prefers semantic locators (getByRole, getByLabel, getByTestId), but comfortable with XPath and handling dynamic elements when needed.
• Hands-on API testing experience: REST, JSON, and auth flows. Comfortable with the postman and/or playwright's requested fixture.
• Solid grasp of HTTP, browser developer tools (network tab, console, and application storage), and cross-browser/responsive testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline (Bitbucket Pipelines preferred; Jenkins / GitHub Actions experience translates).
• Comfortable with Git workflows: feature branches, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Experience with Jira for defect tracking and Confluence for documentation.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills to isolate whether a failure is product, test, environmental, or data and act on it independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication: your bug reports and test plans should be unmistakable.

Nice to Have:

• Experience testing Chrome extensions or other browser-integrated products.
• Exposure to performance/load testing tools like K6 JMeter, Gatling, or Artillery.