Quality Assurance Lead

Remote Crew; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Remote Crew is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to become the first dedicated quality hire. You will design and build the test automation platform from scratch, set quality standards, and help developers own the quality of what they ship.

The role is fully remote with preference for candidates in Portugal or Spain. You will work closely with the CTO and product owners to define test levels, create data, and drive end-to-end testing across Terraform/OpenTofu workflows.

Qualifications

• Senior level experience in QA automation, SDET, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on containers and Kubernetes experience.
• CI/CD pipelines you built yourself (not just used).
• Strong production-level coding in Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Proven experience building a test automation framework from the ground up, including test data and environments.
• API-first testing depth with Playwright, Cypress, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define what 'tested' means across the platform (levels, gates, coverage).
• Build a test automation framework developers can extend.
• Create reliable test data and disposable environments using real cloud resources.
• Design contract and integration tests across services.
• Build end-to-end coverage for key workflows.
• Write regression suites covering provider, version, and cloud combos.

Skills

QA automation

Python/Go/TS

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Playwright/Cypress

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.