Remote People

qa automation engineer for global payroll platform (auto)

In short

This remote QA Automation Engineer role at Remote People, a global workforce management and payroll platform, focuses on developing and maintaining automated tests using Playwright for new features and regression scenarios. The team handles functional, integration, and API testing, defect triage, and is beginning to integrate AI tools into test generation workflows. Requires at least 3 years of QA or software development experience and hands-on Playwright experience, with strong coding and asynchronous communication skills for a fully remote environment.

About the Company
Remote People builds a workforce management platform that enables customers to hire talent globally while handling compliance, payroll, and HR administration.
Responsibilities
•Develop automated tests for new features and regression scenarios
•Conduct functional, integration, and regression testing against requirements, using manual testing as needed
•Triage and report defects, tracking them through resolution
•Monitor and help reduce the ratio of end-user-found defects to QA-found defects
•Minimize QA impact on release schedules
•Use AI tools to accelerate test generation and validate generated tests
•Contribute a QA perspective to requirements reviews
•Own test coverage for squad features
•Take increasing responsibility for quality as the role develops
Requirements
•At least 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Development
•Hands-on experience with Playwright or a comparable test automation framework
•Good coding skills for efficient test automation
•Experience with API testing and automation
•Familiarity with issue-tracking tools, preferably Jira, and version control, preferably Git
•Clear written communication and reliable asynchronous collaboration in a remote environment
•Self-directed and curious, with ownership of tasks, proactive feedback-seeking, and independent growth
Nice to Have
•Familiarity with AI coding assistants for test generation and disciplined workflows
•Experience creating and maintaining manual testing plans
•Experience with SaaS platforms or custom-built products
•Familiarity with agile environments and frequent release cycles
•Awareness of DevOps practices related to QA infrastructure and CI/CD
•Understanding of web application development concepts
Conditions
•Competitive salary
•Ability to work from abroad for a short period
•Hardware provided to new joiners

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