Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Quality Engineer

Type: Contract

Location: Remote (Latin America)

Overview:

Our client is seeking a Quality Engineer to help deliver reliable, high-quality digital experiences and business applications. This role works closely with engineering, product, and business teams to identify risks, validate functionality, and build automated tests that support confident releases. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, a strong understanding of API testing, and familiarity with performance testing, and is comfortable investigating issues across user interfaces, services, integrations, and data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript for web applications and critical business workflows
• Create practical test strategies covering functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and exploratory testing
• Test REST APIs, including authentication, request/response validation, error handling, and system-to-system interactions
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to clarify requirements, improve acceptance criteria, and identify test scenarios early
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help establish meaningful quality checks for releases
• Investigate test failures, troubleshoot defects, and document findings with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence
• Improve test reliability by reducing flaky tests and maintaining reusable test utilities, test data, and environment configurations
• Design and execute performance tests to evaluate response times, throughput, and application behavior under load
• Use SQL to validate data and investigate issues across applications and integrations
• Contribute to accessibility, cross-browser, and responsive design testing
• Communicate release risks, test results, and quality trends to support informed decisions
• Continuously improve testing practices, tools, and coverage based on customer impact and business risk

Key Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or a related software development role
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests with Playwright and TypeScript
• Solid understanding of TypeScript or JavaScript, including asynchronous programming, debugging, and maintainable code
• Experience testing REST APIs using Playwright's API testing capabilities, Postman, or comparable frameworks
• Familiarity with performance testing concepts and tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Experience with Git, code reviews, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins
• Understanding of test design, defect management, and risk-based testing
• Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate issues across multiple systems
• Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and business stakeholders

Desired, But Not Required Knowledge:

• Experience establishing or improving an automation framework
• Experience testing complex enterprise integrations, asynchronous processes, or event-driven systems
• Familiarity with contract testing, service virtualization, and mocking
• Experience using logs, metrics, and tracing tools to diagnose issues
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and automated accessibility testing
• Awareness of application security testing fundamentals
• Experience testing customer portals, payments, billing, or other transaction-driven workflows
• Experience using AI-assisted development and testing tools while reviewing generated code for correctness and maintainability