Senior QA Engineer - Automation & AI-Driven Testing (Remote)

Appfire; Województwo mazowieckie; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

26 vacation days

Wellness days

Volunteer time

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Multisport card

Home Office Allowance

Lunch card

Job summary

Appfire, a remote-first software company with 800+ employees across 28 countries, is seeking a QA automation engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated UI and API tests using Playwright and Python/TypeScript. You will work in CI/CD environments and apply AI-assisted tooling to speed up test design while upholding data-handling guidelines.

Joining Appfire means equity eligibility, generous vacation, wellness days, private healthcare, and a home office allowance to support remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA with focus on test automation as an individual contributor.
• Experience building and maintaining tests with Playwright (UI and API) and JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• Daily use of AI-assisted development for QA work and critical review of AI-generated tests.
• Strong API and integration testing experience and CI/CD familiarity.
• Hands-on with test data, environments, isolation, and parallel/CI stability.
• Experience with Docker and Jira; strong testing fundamentals and agile mindset.
• Excellent English communication for distributed collaboration.
• Experience improving quality on evolving products, not just greenfield work.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated UI, API, and integration tests with Playwright using JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• Use AI-assisted tools to speed up test design, refactoring, and failure analysis; ensure data-handling compliance.
• Plan and execute functional, regression, smoke, and critical-path testing against acceptance criteria.
• Design test data approaches for fixtures and CI environment stability.
• Contribute to test layering and align with engineering on scope and maintainability.
• Run and maintain automated suites in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Collaborate in agile ceremonies; document scenarios and defects for fast resolution.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve test code structure using the test pyramid.
• Test REST/GraphQL APIs; validate contracts and data with SQL when needed.

Skills

Playwright

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

AI-assisted testing

APIs testing

CI/CD

Jira

GitHub Actions

Docker

Tools

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Jira

Job description

Appfire, a remote-first software company with 800+ employees across 28 countries, is seeking a QA automation engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated UI and API tests using Playwright and Python/TypeScript. You will work in CI/CD environments and apply AI-assisted tooling to speed up test design while upholding data-handling guidelines.

Joining Appfire means equity eligibility, generous vacation, wellness days, private healthcare, and a home office allowance to support remote work.