QA Automation Engineer (Playwright/Selenium)

Industry: SaaS — HRTech (employee lifecycle, hiring, payroll and HR operations). The product is a cloud-native HR platform used by growing companies to automate core HR workflows and improve people operations.

Primary title: QA Automation Engineer (solo / early hire for a fast-moving startup environment).

• Own end-to-end quality for web and API products — translate requirements into test strategies, acceptance criteria, and measurable quality goals.
• Design, build and maintain automated test suites for web UI and APIs using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to define acceptance criteria, write test plans, and ensure feature readiness for releases.
• Execute API testing, validate contract and integration scenarios, and automate regression coverage for REST endpoints.
• Investigate, triage and drive resolution of defects across environments; verify fixes and maintain clear test documentation and runbooks.
• Contribute to release quality by improving test reliability, adding observability to test runs, and participating in release gating and post-release monitoring.

• 2–7 years of hands-on QA experience with web/SaaS products and end-to-end testing ownership.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, test design, and QA lifecycle.
• Hands-on automation experience with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Python, or Java for test automation scripting.
• API testing experience using Postman and working with REST APIs plus basic SQL for data validation.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows and integrating automated tests into pipelines.

• Startup experience or prior solo/early-team QA ownership.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and integration testing across services.
• Performance testing experience (k6, JMeter) and cloud exposure (AWS or GCP).

• High-impact, autonomous role with direct influence on product direction and quality practices.
• Fast-paced startup culture: rapid learning, broad ownership, and close collaboration with engineering and PM teams.
• Flexible work model, opportunities for skill growth in automation, performance testing and cloud-based QA tooling.