QA Automation

Decskill; Portugal; Remote; EUR 38,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill is growing and offers a remote-friendly QA Automation role. The company operates within the Astek Group, with colleagues in Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, and supports a diverse, international environment.

The role focuses on manual testing, test automation (Playwright), end-to-end release ownership, QA leadership, and applying AI to QA processes with strict human validation of AI results.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Capable of test design, execution, and exploratory testing.
• Experience with regression and smoke testing.
• Ability to validate and retest bugs.
• End-to-end release involvement and QA coordination.
• Leadership and mentoring in QA practices.
• Interest in AI to improve QA with human validation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate QA activities across the release lifecycle.
• Ensure test coverage for requirements and tickets.
• Coordinate regression testing and communicate quality risks.
• Evaluate release readiness for Production.
• Mentor and support QA team members.
• Promote quality best practices and continuous improvement.
• Leverage AI to improve QA with human validation of results.

Skills

Manual Testing

Test Design

Exploratory Testing

Regression Testing

Smoke Testing

Bug Validation

Test Execution

Critical Thinking

Analytical Skills

Autonomous Working

Tools

Playwright

Automation Frameworks

Bug Tracking Tools

Job description

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We would like to meet a QA Automation for a project with a remote working model:

What we’re looking for:

Manual Testing:

• Strong experience in requirements and acceptance criteria analysis
• Test design, execution and exploratory testing
• Regression and smoke testing
• Bug validation and retesting

Test Automation:

• Solid hands-on experience with test automation, preferably Playwright
• Creation, maintenance and execution of automated tests
• Failure analysis and troubleshooting
• Identification, investigation and resolution of flaky/unstable tests

End-to-End Release Ownership:

• Planning and coordinating QA activities throughout the release lifecycle
• Ensuring requirements and tickets have appropriate test coverage
• Coordinating regression testing
• Identifying, assessing and communicating quality risks
• Evaluating release readiness for Production

QA Leadership & Quality Practices:

• Mentoring and supporting other QA team members
• Reviewing QA work and promoting quality best practices
• Driving continuous improvement across QA processes and practices
• Working autonomously with strong critical thinking and analytical skills

AI in QA:

We are particularly interested in candidates with an interest in and/or experience using Artificial Intelligence to improve QA processes, including:

• Requirements analysis and ambiguity detection
• Test case generation and improvement
• Supporting the creation and maintenance of automated tests
• Failure investigation and analysis
• QA documentation
• Process optimisation and team efficiency
• Responsible use of AI tools, always ensuring human validation of AI-generated results

Your next challenge might start here.

At Decskill, we are committed to equal opportunities and non-discrimination. We promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, where recruitment and career progression are based solely on talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with human dignity.