QA Automation Engineer | Remote & Flexible Hours

Agileengine; Bogotá ciudad; Híbrido; COP 293.026.000 - 390.701.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Descripción de la vacante

AgileEngine is seeking a QA Automation Engineer in Bogota to develop and maintain automated test suites, perform manual validation, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve software quality.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA, strong communication, Gherkin experience, and a focus on holistic quality. Hybrid work option with USD-based compensation is offered.

Formación

• 3+ years in a software quality assurance role.
• 3+ years of automated testing experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Mindset focused on holistic quality.
• Experience with Gherkin for BDD.
• Experience with prompt engineering and harness engineering.
• Experience building Agentic skills focused on Quality Engineering.

Responsabilidades

• Build regression automation scripts to support app functionality.
• Manually test software for validation against criteria.
• Execute smoke, regression, and other testing types.
• Document feature behavior in detail.
• Log pass/fail conditions and link to bugs.
• Identify risks to quality and escalate.
• Collaborate with product and SDLC teams on quality.
• Work with customer teams to incorporate feedback.
• Participate in refinement and effort estimation.
• Use GitHub to manage automation repositories and scripts.
• Join On-Call rotation.

Conocimientos

QA experience

Automated testing

Gherkin

Prompt engineering

Harness engineering

Quality Engineering

Educación

Bachelors in CS

Herramientas

Jest

Playwright

Postman

JMeter

GitHub Actions

LambdaTest

Datadog

PagerDuty

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.

WHY JOIN US

If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a QA Engineer to build regression automation and drive quality practices across a growing platform. This person combines manual testing with automated scripts, executing smoke, integration, and performance tests while documenting feature behavior and correlating failures to defects. Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and comfort with Gherkin-based BDD are central to the role.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Build regression automation scripts that support app functionality.

- Manually test software for validation and accuracy based on defined set of criteria.

- Execute smoke, regression, integration, performance and other testing types to ensure proper behavior of software.

- Record detailed documentation of feature behavior.

- Record pass/fails conditions of tests and correlate failures to bug identification.

- Identify and escalate any risk to quality of the product or the process.

- Collaborate with the product team to ensure quality throughout the SDLC and product release cycles.

- Collaborate with customer-facing teams to incorporate user feedback in the testing strategy.

- Participate in refinement and estimations of effort to promote accurate planning.

- Utilize GitHub to maintain automation repositories, run custom scripts, and facilitate automated quality practices.

- Participate in On-Call rotation.

MUST HAVES

- 3+ years of experience in a software quality assurance role.

- 3+ years of experience in automated testing.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Possess a mindset focused on holistic quality.

- Experience with programming languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript.

- Experience writing and working with Gherkin for behavior-driven development.

- Experience with prompt engineering and harness engineering.

- Experience building Agentic skills focused on Quality Engineering.

- Upper-intermediate English level.

NICE TO HAVES

- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, Playwright, Postman, JMeter or any other object-oriented based automated testing framework.

- Experience with testing support functionalities such as GitHub Actions, LambdaTest, SendGrid, Datadog, PagerDuty.

- Proficiency in SQL.

- Experience with Ruby on Rails and backend development.

- Understanding of quality management systems and quality control processes.

- Background in data-based testing and/or security-based testing.

- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant experience.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

- Professional growth: Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.

- Competitive compensation: We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities.

- A selection of exciting projects: Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands.

- Flextime: Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.

Requirements
Strong hands-on TypeScript engineering skills (at least 3+ YoE) and the autonomy to own a product's technical development as its sole allocated engineer. Ability to understand and work with the JavaScript/TypeScript application ecosystem and its build tooling. Critical thinking: break complex problems into clear steps, challenge assumptions, and ask useful questions of teammates and AI agents. Ability to supervise AI-assisted development, review generated code, and verify that implementations achieve the intended result. Willingness to work outside the primary stack when needed, including front-end tasks, C++ packages, and CI/CD, with support from AI tools and teammates.