Job Description

🧪 Senior QA Engineer | Automation & API Testing

🌎 Position Details

• 📍 Location: Remote | Latin America (LATAM)
• 💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Contractor Agreement
• 🏢 Hiring Company: Allied Global
• 💰 Compensation: US$2,700 monthly
• 🗣️ Language Requirements: Professional proficiency in English and Spanish
• 🏠 Work Model: Fully Remote

🎯 About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of modern software applications.

You will work across the Software Development Lifecycle, combining manual testing, automation, API testing, data validation, and exploratory testing while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Business teams

🚀 Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and regression suites
• Develop and maintain automated UI, API, and end-to-end tests
• Build and maintain automation using Playwright
• Perform REST API testing using Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Validate backend data using SQL queries
• Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure they are clear and testable
• Identify, document, troubleshoot, and triage defects with Development teams.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Improve automation coverage and reduce manual regression efforts.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support release readiness
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to continuously improve quality processes and testing standards

🛠️ Technical Skills

Test Automation

• ⭐ Playwright
• End-to-End (E2E) Testing
• UI & Regression Automation
• Automated Test Frameworks

API & Backend Testing

• RESTful API Testing
• Postman
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• JSON / XML
• API Authentication & Data Validation
• SQL / Complex Queries

Web Technologies

• HTML & CSS
• JavaScript
• Browser Developer Tools
• Cross-Browser Testing
• Responsive Web Testing
• Accessibility / WCAG

DevOps & QA Tools

• Jenkins
• Git
• CI/CD Pipelines
• JIRA
• TestRail

Nice to Have

• Performance / Load Testing: JMeter or k6
• Cloud-based applications
• Microservices architectures
• Experience testing NET applications

💼 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Software QA / Quality Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience with manual and/or automated testing
• Hands-on experience developing automated tests with Playwright
• Strong experience with API testing and SQL data validation
• Experience working with CI/CD and Git-based workflows
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies and Agile/Scrum
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.

⭐ What Success Looks Like

After 12 months, you will:

• Own QA activities across multiple product releases.
• Maintain reliable and scalable automated regression suites.
• Increase automation coverage and reduce manual testing efforts.
• Help reduce escaped defects through proactive testing.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to improve release quality.
• Contribute to stronger QA processes and testing standards.