QA Automation Lead Engineer

Madfish; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech startup is seeking a Lead/Senior Tester to manage QA processes and team, focusing on web and mobile application testing. This role requires at least 3 years' experience in testing, with expertise in Playwright and a strong understanding of automation principles. The candidate will work fully remotely, providing competitive compensation and the opportunity to significantly influence automation strategies in an innovative SaaS product combining AI and multimedia.

Benefits

Interesting project at the intersection of SaaS, AI, and multimedia

Full remote work

Competitive compensation

25 paid working days of vacation

Paid sick leave

Adequate management and knowledge culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience testing Web applications, including 1 year in a Lead/Senior role.
• Practical experience with test automation.
• Understanding of BDD / Cucumber principles is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of testers and mentoring.
• Organize testing processes and quality control.
• Conduct manual and automated testing of web and mobile applications.

Skills

Test automation in Playwright

Experience in Web applications testing

Knowledge of HTTP / HTTPS basics

Understanding SQL

Experience with GitLab / GitHub

Written English - Intermediate or higher

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Swagger

GitLab

Jira

Job description

Pitch Avatar is a startup that helps teams and speakers create impressive video presentations using avatars and AI. We’re growing fast and expanding our user base — now we’re looking for someone who will become the voice and face of our product for our clients.

The project combines elements of a SaaS platform, generative AI (ChatGPT, Whisper, TTS) and real‑time multimedia content (WebSocket / WebRTC).

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of testers, mentoring
• Organizing testing processes, distributing tasks, and quality control
• Conducting manual and automated testing of Web and mobile Web applications
• Developing, supporting, and optimizing autotests (UI, REST, WebSocket, WebRTC)
• Analyzing requirements and specifications, preparing test plans and test cases
• Reporting and supporting found defects until they are fixed
• Testing integrations between REST API and WebSocket streams
• Performing performance testing (k6 or similar tools)
• Interacting with PM, developers, AI/ML and monetization teams
• Participating in improving QA processes and building automation infrastructure

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience testing Web applications, of which at least 1 year in a Lead/Senior role
• Practical experience with test automation in Playwright
• preferably in Java, but JS/TS or Python
• Understanding BDD / Cucumber principles - desirable
• Experience in REST API automation (Playwright, Postman, Swagger)
• Experience in WebSocket / WebRTC automation (message validation, REST integration)
• Knowledge of HTTP / HTTPS basics, client-server architecture
• Experience in JSON response analysis and business logic validation
• Understanding SQL (JOINs, queries, data validation)
• Experience with GitLab / GitHub, Jira, Confluence, TestRail / Testiny
• Knowledge of Charles / Fiddler or similar for network request analysis
• Basic experience with Python / Pytest, libraries for semantics testing, audio metrics will be an advantage
• Experience in conducting performance tests (k6, JMeter, Locust) - desirable
• Written English - not lower than Intermediate

Will be a plus

• Experience in building CI / CD pipelines for automated tests (GitLab / GitHub Actions)
• Knowledge of AI service testing principles (LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech)
• Experience in configuring Docker / AWS environments
• Experience in forming a QA strategy for complex distributed systems

We offer

• Interesting project at the intersection of SaaS, AI and multimedia
• Full remote work
• Competitive compensation
• Official contract with an Austrian company
• 25 paid working days of vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Adequate management, freedom of decisions, knowledge culture
• The opportunity to influence the architecture of test automation and QA processes