Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Work Setup: Fully Remote, but prefers candidate based in Porto, Portugal

Schedule: 5 working days in a week

Contract Duration: Initial 12 months

What You'll Actually Do

Hands-On Testing (60–70% of your time)

• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing
• Work through and continuously reduce an existing test backlog
• Validate complex workflows including onboarding, transactions, compliance rules, and scoring engines
• Test REST APIs using Postman or similar tools
• Write and execute SQL / T-SQL queries to validate backend data integrity
• Coordinate and support UAT with internal and external stakeholders
• Produce clear, reproducible defect reports with risk assessment

Note: Test execution is a core, ongoing responsibility, not a temporary cleanup phase.

Automation & Tooling (20–30% of your time)

• Design, build, and maintain API test automation (primary focus)
• Develop UI automation for critical user journeys
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Own and evolve the automation approach — not just scripts
• Select and implement tools pragmatically (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium — tool choice is flexible)
• Debug failing tests using logs, test output, and basic source-code understanding

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Quality Strategy & Process (10–20% of your time)

• Define and enforce release readiness criteria and quality gates
• Establish test coverage metrics, dashboards, and reporting
• Improve defect triage and root-cause analysis processes
• Document QA standards, test strategies, and best practices
• Promote a shift-left testing mindset within the engineering team
• Ensure test evidence and results support auditability and regulatory expectations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Strong English communication skills (written and verbal)5+ years in Software Quality Assurance
• Proven hands-on experience testing web applications and REST APIs
• Experience with SaaS platforms (FinTech / RegTech / Banking strongly preferred)
• Hands-on exposure to Azure-based environments
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, backlog-heavy environments

Technical Skills

• Test Design: Test planning, case design, defect lifecycle management
• API Testing: Postman or equivalent, REST validation, schema & response checks

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• Database: SQL / T-SQL for backend and data integrity validation
• Automation: Hands-on experience with at least one framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
• CI/CD: Familiarity with pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Performance: Basic load and performance testing knowledge
• Security: Understanding of access control, data isolation, PII handling
• Engineering: Comfortable reading logs and basic source code to diagnose issues
• Tools: JIRA (or equivalent), Git basics

Who You Are

• Execution-focused: You take pride in clearing backlogs and shipping quality
• Hands-on by default: You test, automate, and debug yourself
• Detail-oriented: You spot edge cases others miss
• Pragmatic: You balance ideal processes with real-world constraints
• Proactive: You raise risks early and propose solutions
• Adaptable: Comfortable switching between manual and automated work
• Quality-driven: You understand quality is everyone's job — and you champion it

This Role Is Not for You If

• You want to manage testers instead of testing yourself
• You expect a greenfield QA environment with no backlog
• You prefer rigid processes over practical execution
• You are uncomfortable operating with evolving requirements