QA Engineer (Automation & Manual)

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Design test strategy and coverage plans for new features, balancing automation, manual, and exploratory testing.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Design and implement API-level testing using Postman or RestAssured, not just UI end-to-end tests.
• Integrate automated tests as hard gates in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI) - a failing suite blocks the merge.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing for edge cases, UI/UX, and complex business logic automation can miss.
• Identify, record, and drive bugs to resolution in Jira, including clear repro steps and root-cause context.
• (Senior) Own the automation framework architecture and set the test strategy other QA engineers build against.

Qualifications

• English: fluent with good verbal and written communication - writes bug reports and test plans international teams can act on without a clarification round-trip.
• 3+ years (Middle) to 5+ years (Senior) of QA experience, comfortable with both test automation and hands-on manual/exploratory testing.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Experience with API testing, performance testing (JMeter/k6), and database-level validation.
• Strong manual and exploratory testing instincts for edge cases and complex business logic that scripts miss.
• Comfortable reading application code well enough to reason about what could break, not just what did.
• AI-assisted testing as daily practice: uses AI to draft test cases and speed up triage - not a substitute for testing judgment.
• (Senior) Track record of building a test automation framework from zero, and mentoring less-senior QA engineers.