Senior QA Engineer with Automation

About the role

A well-established US education-technology company with a global presence, providing digital learning content and platforms to millions of users, is looking for a Senior QA Engineer with automation to join its engineering team. The role focuses on strong testing fundamentals and solid software design, with automation added where it adds real value. It covers testing complex integrated web applications across UI and API layers, starting mostly manual and moving toward about a 70/30 split of automation to manual.

Key responsibilities

• UI and API testing of complex integrated web applications
• Developing and refining test plans
• Writing and maintaining automated tests, mainly with Cypress
• Closing in with developers in an Agile environment
• Tracking and managing test cases in JIRA, TestRail and Qmetry
• Identifying manual processes that can be automated for reliability and maintainability

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience as a manual QA at a senior level
• Hands-on experience writing or maintaining automated tests for UI or API scenarios
• An automation-oriented mindset, comfortable with programming concepts and logical problem solving
• Strong written and spoken English; interviews in English; Russian or Ukrainian is a plus

Required skills

• HTTP, HTML, AJAX, JSON, REST APIs and client-server architecture
• Basic SQL
• Nice to have: Cypress, Playwright or Selenium; CI/CD; Agile; JIRA, TestRail and Qmetry; basic Linux (Ubuntu command line); basic Git

What we offer

• Up to $4,500 gross per month
• Stable, long-term position with a well-established American company
• Friendly and supportive team culture
• Good vacation policy
• Independent contractor arrangement (incubator arrangements not accepted)