Senior QA Engineer - Remote, Lead Quality & Automation

Makai Labs, LLC.; Santiago; Remote; CLP 92,773,000 - 136,719,000; Full time

Job summary

Makai is seeking a talented, proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our growing team. This is a full-time remote role where you will drive quality initiatives, ensure product reliability, and enhance user satisfaction through hands-on testing and strategic QA leadership.

You will design and execute test plans, perform functional, regression, and API testing, and mentor teammates while collaborating closely with Developers and Product Owners to raise our standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional QA experience testing complex web apps.
• Expertise in SDLC/STLC within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban).
• Proficiency in SQL to validate backend data integrity and test setups/teardowns.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Quality Ownership: manage the QA lifecycle from requirements analysis to release readiness.
• In-Depth Functional & Regression Testing: perform manual and exploratory testing to ensure release quality.
• API & Backend Testing: conduct API testing and validate business logic with SQL queries.
• Defect Management: document, track, and verify bugs with clear lifecycle tracking.
• Process Advocacy & Improvement: promote QA best practices and contribute to tooling improvements.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: share testing knowledge and uplift team capabilities.

Skills

QA Methodologies

SQL Testing

Automation Concepts

Programming Familiarity

English Fluency

Collaboration & Communication

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Makai is seeking a talented, proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our growing team. This is a full-time remote role where you will drive quality initiatives, ensure product reliability, and enhance user satisfaction through hands-on testing and strategic QA leadership.

You will design and execute test plans, perform functional, regression, and API testing, and mentor teammates while collaborating closely with Developers and Product Owners to raise our standards.