Portuguese Quality Assurance Lead - Remote

Remote Crew; Viseu; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Career growth

Competitive pay

Job summary

Remote Crew is hiring a Senior QA Engineer to design and build a test automation platform from scratch. You’ll set the testing standards, create reusable data and environments with real cloud resources, and help developers own quality as the company scales.

As the first dedicated QA hire, you’ll shape the QA function, collaborate with backend, frontend, and product owners, and drive end-to-end coverage for Terraform and OpenTofu workloads in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• Senior level experience in QA automation, SDET, or platform engineering with a strong quality focus.
• Real platform or infrastructure background with Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands on experience with containers and Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines you built yourself, not just used.
• Strong production level coding skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Proven experience building a test automation framework from the ground up, including test data, environment provisioning, parallelization, and flakiness.
• API first testing depth plus E2E experience with Playwright, Cypress, or similar.
• Ability to set standards and get engineers to follow them without formal authority.
• Strong self direction. There's no existing QA team or backlog to lean on.

Responsibilities

• Define what "tested" means across the platform: test levels, merge and release gates, coverage expectations.
• Build a test automation framework developers can extend on their own.
• Create reliable test data and disposable environments that use real cloud resources.
• Design contract and integration tests across services.
• Build end to end coverage for the workflows that matter most.
• Write regression suites covering provider, version, and cloud combinations.
• Test Terraform and OpenTofu execution, state, and long running async operations.
• Pair with engineers, write templates and docs, and run office hours to grow test ownership.
• Track adoption of testing practices across teams, don't just assume it's happening.
• Make quality visible: coverage, escaped bugs, and risk before release.
• Work directly with backend, frontend, and product feature owners.
• Help shape the QA function as the company grows the team.

Skills

QA automation

SDET

Terraform/OpenTofu

Cloud providers

Kubernetes CI/CD

Python/Go/TS

Test framework from scratch

API testing (Playwright/Cypress)

Standards governance

Self-direction

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Playwright

Cypress

Kubernetes

Job description

At Remote Crew, we're partnering with a fast-growing infrastructure automation platform for Terraform and OpenTofu, looking for a Senior QA Engineer. You'll be the first dedicated quality hire at the company. You'll design and build the test automation platform from scratch, set the testing standards, and help developers own the quality of what they ship.

Location

Fully remote. Portugal or Spain preferred.

What You'll Do

• Define what "tested" means across the platform: test levels, merge and release gates, coverage expectations
• Build a test automation framework developers can extend on their own
• Create reliable test data and disposable environments that use real cloud resources
• Design contract and integration tests across services
• Build end to end coverage for the workflows that matter most
• Write regression suites covering provider, version, and cloud combinations
• Test Terraform and OpenTofu execution, state, and long running async operations
• Pair with engineers, write templates and docs, and run office hours to grow test ownership
• Track adoption of testing practices across teams, don't just assume it's happening
• Make quality visible: coverage, escaped bugs, and risk before release
• Work directly with backend, frontend, and product feature owners
• Help shape the QA function as the company grows the team

What We're Looking For

• Senior level experience in QA automation, SDET, or platform engineering with a strong quality focus
• Real platform or infrastructure background with Terraform or OpenTofu
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Hands on experience with containers and Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines you built yourself, not just used
• Strong production level coding skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript
• Proven experience building a test automation framework from the ground up, including test data, environment provisioning, parallelization, and flakiness
• API first testing depth plus E2E experience with Playwright, Cypress, or similar
• Ability to set standards and get engineers to follow them without formal authority
• Strong self direction. There's no existing QA team or backlog to lean on

Nice to Have

• Policy as code experience with OPA or Rego
• Terratest, kitchen terraform, or provider level testing
• Performance and load testing with k6 or Locust
• Developer experience or internal tooling background
• Experience as the first quality hire at a startup

Why Work With Us

• You'll build the QA function from zero, not inherit someone else's backlog
• You'll tackle a genuinely hard technical problem: testing Terraform and OpenTofu execution across async, multi-tenant infrastructure
• You'll work directly with the CTO and feature owners, no layers of hierarchy in between
• You'll help hire and shape a small QA team as it grows around you
• You'll join a small, fully remote engineering team with short decision paths and real ownership
• If building the quality backbone of an infrastructure platform sounds like your kind of problem, we'd love to hear from you.

Portuguese Quality Assurance Lead - Remote • Piedade, Portuguese Republic, PT