QA Automation Engineer - CI/CD & Web/API Testing

ID-Pal; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ID-Pal is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our QA Team. This hands-on role focuses on building and maintaining automated test coverage across web applications and APIs using Playwright, Cypress and TypeScript, and improving CI/CD and release quality.

You will work directly with Software Engineers, Product Owners and Engineering Leads from the start of the development lifecycle to understand features, risks and testing needs, and to shape testing strategy across the product.

Responsibilities

• Building, maintaining and improving automated test frameworks and suites.
• Developing automated UI and API testing.
• Expanding existing Playwright and Cypress coverage.
• Working hands-on with TypeScript within the automation environment.
• Integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Owning regression coverage and supporting releases.
• Getting involved early in Three Amigos, refinement, planning and requirements discussions.
• Understanding new features from both a technical and customer perspective.
• Identifying the highest-risk areas and deciding where testing effort should be focused.
• Challenging requirements and acceptance criteria when you identify potential gaps.
• Carrying out exploratory and manual testing where automation isn’t the best approach.
• Proactively identifying gaps in quality, coverage or existing processes.
• Working directly with developers throughout delivery rather than operating as a separate QA function.
• Helping the wider team continuously improve its approach to quality.

Skills

QA Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

TypeScript

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Job description

ID-Pal is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our QA Team. This hands-on role focuses on building and maintaining automated test coverage across web applications and APIs using Playwright, Cypress and TypeScript, and improving CI/CD and release quality.

You will work directly with Software Engineers, Product Owners and Engineering Leads from the start of the development lifecycle to understand features, risks and testing needs, and to shape testing strategy across the product.