QA Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer

Education & Certifications
Secondary degree diploma preferably University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Professional Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining production-grade software systems
• Proven track record of delivering scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software within Agile development environments
• Experience collaborating in globally distributed engineering teams and contributing to cross-functional technical initiatives

Core Engineering Competencies

System Architecture & Design

• Defines and implements software components, systems, and services with consideration for scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Makes thoughtful architectural decisions aligned with business goals and technical best practices

Agile Delivery & Engineering Practices

• Actively participates in Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews)
• Supports continuous delivery practices, source control strategies, and iterative development workflows

Quality, Testing & Documentation

• Writes modular, reusable, and testable code
• Designs and maintains automated test coverage (unit, integration, and/or end-to-end tests)
• Produces clear and concise technical documentation for both implementation and processes

Collaboration & Communication

• Works effectively in a cross-functional environment with designers, product managers, QA, and fellow engineers
• Provides technical mentorship and supports knowledge sharing within the team
• Engages with stakeholders (including client-side engineers) to drive clarity and shared understanding of technical solutions

Release, Risk, and Change Management

• Supports and/or leads release management, ensuring smooth deployment cycles
• Identifies and mitigates technical risks early in the development process
• Participates in onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure knowledge continuity and team stability
• Embraces change management best practices during feature rollouts and system upgrades

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Autonomous problem-solver with strong ownership mindset
• Clear, confident communicator in English
• Advocates for clean code, performance, security, and accessibility

QA Automation

General requirements:

• Actively works on understanding the business domain and challenges the software requirements in the assigned scope of work.
• Creates, executes and maintains test assets (code, test plans, test cases) and follows good industry practices (code styling, code quality…).
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Completes work items without guidance and within agreed time frame.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
• Assist with manual testing; execute manual test cases and scripts for products under development using test management/tracking tools.
• Share knowledge with teammates through everyday activities.
• Actively participates and contributes to project activities (daily meetings, retrospectives,
• planning sessions…) while continuously providing feedback.
• Performs basic level refactoring without guidance.
• Coordinates team/group efforts to finish work items with expected quality on time.
• Understand the application and can assess performance and security risks or get involved during the designing of performance test scripts.
• Actively proposes reasonable process improvements on the team or project level.
• Keeps knowledge up to date with current technology improvements, applies the knowledge to
• drive research initiatives within their team and produces research results that bring value to
• the team or client. Shares knowledge with teammates through everyday activities.
• Understands all characteristics and elements of the system architecture used in the project.
• Contributes to the maintenance and system architecture definition.
• Understands strategic principles applied to the application and the reasoning behind these decisions.