Senior QA Engineer — AI-Driven Test Automation (Remote)

Appfire; Polska; Remote; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Indefinite contract

Equity for all team members

26 vacation days

Wellness Days

24 hours of volunteer time

Luxmed private healthcare

Home Office Allowance

Lunch Card

Job summary

Appfire is a global software company enabling teams to collaborate across borders with a remote-first model. We seek an experienced QA professional focused on test automation to design, implement, and maintain automated tests across APIs, services, and data layers.

You will drive CI/CD testing, contribute to test strategy, and mentor quality across evolving products. You will work in a distributed team, use AI-assisted testing tools, and collaborate with product and engineering to reduce flaky

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA with a strong focus on test automation as an individual contributor.
• Daily, practical use of AI-assisted development for QA work and the ability to critically review AI-generated tests.
• Solid API and integration testing experience (auth, mocking/stubbing, debugging across services).
• Practical experience with test data and environments for automation (isolation, fixtures, stability in parallel/CI runs).
• Hands-on CI/CD experience running automated tests in pipelines and working with Docker.
• Strong testing fundamentals (test pyramid, risk-based testing, agile, defect lifecycle) and experience with Jira or similar.
• Excellent English (written and verbal) for distributed collaboration.
• Experience raising quality on long-lived, evolving products, not only greenfield work.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted tools (e.g. Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to speed up test design, refactoring, and failure analysis; always validate output and follow company data-handling guidelines.
• Plan and execute functional, regression, smoke, and critical-path testing; validate against agreed acceptance criteria and flag quality risks early.
• Design and maintain test data approaches for your area (fixtures, isolation, environments) so automated suites stay reliable in CI.
• Contribute to test layering - what to cover at API/component level vs full E2E - and align with engineering on scope and maintainability.
• Run and maintain automated suites in CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, Jenkins); improve stability, reporting, and triage of failing builds.
• Partner in agile ceremonies with engineering and product; document scenarios and defects so issues are resolved quickly.
• Reduce flaky tests, improve test code structure, and apply the test pyramid and risk-based prioritization in everyday delivery.
• Test REST/GraphQL APIs, validate contracts and payloads, and verify data with SQL or equivalent when needed.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD

Docker

English proficiency

Tools

Jira

SQL

Job description

Appfire is a global software company enabling teams to collaborate across borders with a remote-first model. We seek an experienced QA professional focused on test automation to design, implement, and maintain automated tests across APIs, services, and data layers.

You will drive CI/CD testing, contribute to test strategy, and mentor quality across evolving products. You will work in a distributed team, use AI-assisted testing tools, and collaborate with product and engineering to reduce flaky