General QA Engineer (Remote, Contract)

OUR HIRING PROCESS:

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented General QA Engineer to help ensure the quality and reliability of our product. In this role, you will combine manual and automated testing, build and maintain scalable Playwright test suites, leverage AI-powered tools to increase efficiency and work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver a seamless user experience.

As part of our team, your responsibilities in this role will include:

• Automates validation across UI, APIs, dashboards
• Maintains reusable test systems, flakes analytics
• Development and maintenance of a suite of e2e/UI tests in Playwright (TS), covering critical user scenarios.
• Use of AI in work
• Practical use of LLM tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot/Codeium) to optimize the execution of testing tasks.
• Performing manual testing of features (planning, test design, regression, exploratory).
• Integration and optimization of test runs in CI (parallelization, stabilization, flakiness metrics).
• Setting up reporting and observability for automated tests (traces, video, flake analytics).
• Collaboration with engineering and product: requirements clarification, help reproducing defects, and improving testability.
• Maintaining the quality of test data and environments.

Our ideal candidate possesses the following skills:

• 3–5 years in QA, including 1.5+ years in automation using JavaScript/Playwright
• Strong Playwright:

- Test Runner, fixtures, projects, parallelization, and sharding.
- Auto-wait/locators, stable selectors, working with flakes (timeouts, retries, expect.poll).
- BrowserContext/Page, environment isolation, test data management.
- Tracing, video/screenshots, network mocking (route), APIRequestContext.
- Page Object/Screenplay patterns, project structure, reusability

• AI & No-Code Integration:

- Building test workflows in n8n, Zapier, Gumloop
- Use of no-code tools as part of the automated test infrastructure

• AI-Enhanced Testing:

- Practical use of LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot)
- Explore AI QA tools (Testim, Diffblue, CodiumAI, Mabl)

• JavaScript/TypeScript at advanced mid-level:

- Async/await, promises, modules, TS typing, interfaces, generics.
- NPM/Yarn, Node.js scripts, ESLint/Prettier configuration.

• PI testing: REST, Postman/Swagger.
• Browser DevTools: network, storage, cookies, CORS, headers, status codes.
• Databases: solid SQL, basic work with test data.
• CI/CD and VCS:

- Git (branching, PR, code review).
- Integration of automated tests into CI (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), artifacts, and reports.
- Running tests in containers/headless, dependency management, and caching

• Manual testing:

- Requirements analysis.
- Creation of all types of test documentation
- Test design techniques
- Types of testing

• English: reading documentation and written communication (Intermediate+)

What we offer:

• Fully remote work format;
• A collaborative and creative environment that values initiative and experimentation;
• Schedule: 13 PM - 21 PM EEST (Kyiv time).