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QA Automation Engineer
Location
Argentina
Posted
82 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
QA Automation Engineer
Celara
• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for our front-end products and public API — this is the primary and non-negotiable function of this role: • Lead end-to-end test automation using Playwright, covering functional, regression, cross-browser, and performance scenarios; • Own API test automation: write and maintain contract tests, functional tests, and integration tests for GFW's public and internal APIs; • Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Cloudbuild), ensuring tests run reliably on every relevant trigger; • Design and document test cases for user stories; validate acceptance criteria with the product team before implementation begins; • Define and maintain test suite organization — smoke, regression, and full suites — and determine which cases warrant automation vs. manual execution; • Run and maintain regression suites when new features are released or underlying data versions change; • Conduct periodic regression runs on production environments; • Work closely with the product team during user story definition to ensure testability and clear acceptance criteria from the start; Creating a test plan for every release; • Report bugs clearly in the issue tracking system and follow up until resolution working closely with product to understand impact of the bug and define priority; • Define, record, and report on QA metrics to assess coverage, test reliability, and areas of product risk; • Advance overall QA strategy, tooling, and infrastructure over time.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production web applications — please be prepared to discuss specific projects and outcomes;
- Proven, recent experience with Playwright for end-to-end browser automation (required);
- Solid experience with API test automation: writing contract tests, functional API tests, and integration tests;
- Experience working in Agile teams with sprint-based delivery;
- Experience with CI/CD integration of automated tests (GitHub Actions or equivalent);
- Experience with performance and cross-browser testing;
- Experience with test plan and test case development, including defining what to automate vs. test manually;
- Willing to comb through a complex network of interdependent tools, resources, user roles, and permissions;
- Detail-oriented, with a mindset geared toward finding edge cases and breaking things.
- Preferred Technical Skills
- Experience with Cypress in addition to Playwright;
- Experience testing non-traditional, data-heavy applications using maps, charts, heatmaps, or other data visualizations;
- Strong proficiency with Git and modern branching strategies;
- Familiarity with Docker and containerized test environments;
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform;
- Open-source collaboration experience.
- Communication & Collaboration Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication in English — most day-to-day collaboration is async and written. Having also good verbal Spanish is a plus;
- Comfortable working remotely and independently in a small, fast-moving organization;
- Proactive and highly organized — owns tasks end-to-end without needing to be chased;
- Team player who is willing to teach and learn across disciplines;
- Intellectually curious and open to suggesting and evaluating new tools, approaches, or strategies;
- Flexible and able to adapt to shifting priorities and evolving requirements;
- Able to communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders — from engineers to product managers to senior leadership;
- Comfortable managing multiple ongoing tasks, sharing estimations, raising risks and meeting deadlines.
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