QA Automation Engineer – Web & API (Hybrid/Night)

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage on day one

Performance bonuses

Group life insurance

Paid time-off with cash conversion

Job summary

MicroSourcing in Cebu, Philippines is seeking a QA Automation Engineer (Web & API) to ensure quality across frontend and backend systems in a hybrid night-shift setup.

The role involves designing and executing tests, building automated scripts with Playwright/pytest, and using AI tools to speed up testing. You’ll join a diverse team with competitive rewards and growth opportunities as part of MicroSourcing’s global delivery network.

Qualifications

• Professional QA/testing experience on production web applications with strong exploratory and regression testing capabilities.
• Ability to test across full-stack layers (UI, API, database, queues) rather than browser-only manual testing.
• Practical experience inspecting HTTP/API requests, status codes, and reading basic application logs.
• Proven test automation experience (or demonstrated ability to build automated checks using Playwright, pytest, or similar tools).
• Strong attention to data quality, privacy, permissions, and failure handling in a web software environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end functional, exploratory, and regression testing across web UI, APIs, databases, and asynchronous backend systems.
• Validate complex AI agent behaviors, non-deterministic workflows, and background job states across realistic operational scenarios.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright, pytest, or fit-for-purpose API testing tools.
• Investigate system defects using browser dev tools, HTTP payloads, database queries, and application logs to produce actionable bug reports.
• Leverage AI-native tools (ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor) to generate test matrices, draft automation scripts, and accelerate root-cause analysis.

Skills

QA testing

Playwright

pytest

API testing

Exploratory testing

Regression testing

SQL

AI tools

Debugging

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

pytest

API testing tools

SQL tooling

DevTools

Redis

SQS

Job description

MicroSourcing in Cebu, Philippines is seeking a QA Automation Engineer (Web & API) to ensure quality across frontend and backend systems in a hybrid night-shift setup.

The role involves designing and executing tests, building automated scripts with Playwright/pytest, and using AI tools to speed up testing. You’ll join a diverse team with competitive rewards and growth opportunities as part of MicroSourcing’s global delivery network.