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QA Automation Engineer (Remote)

About the role

We are hiring a remote QA Automation Engineer to catch bugs before customers do by building and running our automated and manual tests.

You will report to the founder.

What you will do

  • Write and maintain end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
  • Write API tests for key endpoints
  • Run the automated test suite in CI on every pull request
  • Write test plans and test cases for new features
  • Log clear, reproducible bug reports

What success looks like in the first 90 days

  • Critical user flows covered by automated tests
  • Tests running on every pull request
  • Every bug report includes steps, expected and actual results, and evidence

Tools you will use

  • Playwright or Cypress
  • Postman
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jira or Linear
  • BrowserStack

What we are looking for

  • Three or more years in QA, with at least two in test automation
  • Writes test code in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
  • Experience running tests in CI
  • Writes bug reports a developer can act on without a follow-up question

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours a week, remote. Working hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time business hours.

How to apply

Send your resume and a short note on the most relevant work you have done. Tell us which of the tasks above you have done before and the tools you used. Applications without a note will not be reviewed.

More tasks you can add

  • Run manual exploratory testing before releases
  • Track flaky tests and fix them
  • Run regression tests before each release

Interview questions for this role

  1. How do you decide what to automate first and what to keep manual?
  2. Walk me through a bug you found that the developer could not reproduce. What did you do?
  3. How do you keep end-to-end tests from breaking every time the UI changes?
  4. What makes a good bug report?
  5. How do you test an API without a front end?

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