Senior QA Engineer

The Impact

• Own end-to-end quality validation for new features, releases, and production deployments.
• Develop comprehensive testing strategies from business and technical requirements.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated regression test suites (Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent).
• Partner with engineering to grow test coverage and release confidence.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Support CI/CD quality initiatives and automation integration so tests run on every deploy and block on failure.
• Run API and integration testing across platform services using Postman or Swagger.
• Improve QA processes, testing standards, and quality best practices.
• Lead release readiness assessments and production validation.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and raise overall QA maturity.
• Communicate quality risks and trade-offs clearly to engineering and product across time zones.

Dominant and Expressed Traits

• 5+ years of QA experience with strong manual testing expertise.
• Proven experience building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent tools.
• Experience testing complex web-based applications in Agile environments.
• API testing experience with Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Bitbucket or Git.
• Strong grasp of regression testing strategies and QA best practices.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Comfortable working remotely in a fast-moving startup environment.
• E-commerce or checkout and payment workflow exposure is a plus.
• Scripting in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python is a plus.
• Performance testing with k6 or JMeter is a plus.
• Experience mentoring QA engineers is a plus.
• Exposure to security or vulnerability validation testing is a plus.