QA Automation Engineer

About Remote People

At Remote People, we're building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

If you're interested in adding to our vision of enabling people to work in dream jobs, for every company, and from anywhere in the world, apply now!

We're committed to building a global, diverse team representing different and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability. Being part of Remote People means being part of a growing, international family.

Overview

We're seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our Engineering team and participate in taking the quality of our SaaS platform to the next level. If you thrive in a team-oriented setting and are passionate about delivering high-quality software, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated tests for both new features and regression scenarios
• Conduct functional, system integration, and regression testing to validate application functionality against business requirements, with occasional manual testing as needed
• Prioritize and triage bugs reported by clients, providing detailed insights and actionable recommendations
• Timely and accurately report defects found during testing
• Track defects from discovery through to resolution, ensuring validation and verification post-fix
• Constantly monitor and reduce the ratio of End user found / QA found defects
• Keep QA impact on release schedule to a minimum
• Work in a cross-functional squad (along with FE and BE Engineers, Product Manager and a Designer)
• Contribute to requirements review and prioritization by bringing QA perspective

Requirements

• Decent coding experience, enabling efficient test automation
• Minimum of 5 years in Quality Assurance or Software Development roles
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for test automation
• Proficiency in API testing and automation
• Familiarity with issue tracking tools, preferably JIRA, and version control, preferably Git
• Experience in creating, maintaining and executing rich manual testing plans
• Proficiency with test case management tools
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on a SaaS platform, or at least custom built Product
• Experience with doing QA in an agile environment with frequent releases
• Familiarity with mobile application testing (we’ll be needing it in future)
• Awareness of DevOps practices related to QA infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment systems
• Understand web application development concepts
• Take ownership in what you do and always look for improvements
• Set high standards for others and for yourself

Why Join Us

• Growing international Engineering team on two continents (Asia and Europe), working on in-house product
• Chance to contribute to cutting-edge projects and technologies
• Work alongside other talented Engineers, in an environment fostering collaboration, personal development, technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits
• Continuous learning and development opportunities

If you're passionate about quality assurance, automation, and enjoy working in a supportive team environment, we encourage you to apply and become a valuable part of our QA crew.

What it's like working at Remote People

Our service & product. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

Our amazing team and environment. Working at Remote People means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

Our benefits and perks. Being part of Remote People means that you get the benefit of:

• A competitive salary
• An asynchronous working environment
• A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job
• The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
• Growth opportunities within the company
• We provide all new joiners with the necessary hardware to ensure you have the tools you need to succeed from day one