[Remote] QA Automation Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pavago is a fast-growing, product-focused technology company seeking a QA Automation Engineer to build, maintain, and scale automated testing systems. The role involves collaborating with frontend and backend engineers to enhance product quality through automation frameworks and reliable testing processes.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and expand E2E automation coverage using Playwright and TypeScript
- Develop scalable and maintainable automation frameworks for critical product workflows
- Ensure strong regression coverage across frontend and backend systems
- Write reliable, reusable, and performance-focused automated tests
- Identify, troubleshoot, and eliminate flaky tests
- Improve test execution performance and framework stability
- Diagnose issues related to asynchronous behavior, DOM interactions, and network requests
- Maintain stable and reliable automation environments across releases
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing
- Ensure automated tests run efficiently within deployment workflows
- Maintain test data strategies and reliable test environments
- Support deployment confidence through automated quality validation
- Collaborate directly with frontend and backend engineers during feature development
- Participate in release validation and quality planning discussions
- Support engineering teams with testing strategy and automation best practices
- Improve overall product reliability through proactive automation coverage
- Utilize AI tools to support exploratory testing and edge-case discovery
- Identify opportunities to improve automation workflows through intelligent tooling
- Continuously optimize testing processes for speed, reliability, and scalability
Skills
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with Playwright
- Strong Cypress background is acceptable if willing to transition to Playwright
- Proven experience building and maintaining E2E automation frameworks
- Deep understanding of: DOM interaction
- Deep understanding of: Network requests
- Deep understanding of: Asynchronous behavior
- Deep understanding of: Diagnosing flaky tests
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Experience building automation infrastructure from scratch
- Strong understanding of test data management strategies
- Experience testing B2B SaaS products or multi-tenant systems
- Familiarity with role-based access and permissions testing
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing workflows and automation tools
- Experience working in fast-moving startup or product-led environments
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