Senior Automation QA

act digital; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior QA Tester Engineer in Lisbon to enhance the quality and reliability of their cross-media measurement platform. This role will focus on test automation, API testing, and data validation within a cloud-native architecture. Strong experience with frameworks like Playwright and Cypress, along with SQL knowledge, is essential. Ideal candidates will work closely with developers to integrate testing seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring high-quality output and robust testing processes. Hybrid working options apply.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with test automation frameworks for web applications and distributed systems.
• Solid experience testing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, or similar testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for regression coverage.
• Implement API-level testing for microservices and service layers.
• Develop automated checks to validate complex data pipelines.

Skills

Test automation frameworks

RESTful APIs testing

Playwright

Cypress

SQL

CI/CD integration

Tools

GCP Cloud Build

Playwright

Supertest

Job description

We are looking for a Senior QA Tester Engineer to join our team and support the quality and reliability of a cross-media measurement platform developed in partnership with industry leaders such as Google, Meta, TikTok, and Amazon.

This role focuses on test automation, API testing, and data validation within a modern API-first and cloud-native architecture. The engineer will work closely with development teams to ensure platform reliability and embed quality into the CI/CD pipeline.

Please find the details below:

Location:

• Lisbon, Braga, or Coimbra (hybrid) Candidates must be living in Portugal.

Language Requirements:

• Automation & Testing: Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, Supertest, API testing, Test automation frameworks
• Data & Databases: SQL, data validation, analytics pipelines
• Other / Nice to Have: Generative AI tools for testing, API-first architectures, Microservices Key

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites to ensure strong regression coverage.
• Implement API-level testing (contract, integration, and component testing) for microservices and service layers.
• Develop automated checks to validate complex data pipelines and ensure the accuracy of measurement outputs.
• Maintain and improve the automation ecosystem using tools such as Playwright, Supertest (NestJS), and GCP Cloud Build.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate testing into the development lifecycle and CI/CD workflows.
• Monitor and improve quality metrics such as test stability, execution time, and coverage.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience with test automation frameworks for web applications and distributed systems.
• Solid experience testing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, or similar testing tools.
• Good knowledge of SQL and experience validating data-driven platforms.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with containerized environments.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other cloud environments.
• Experience testing data pipelines or analytics platforms.
• Exposure to Generative AI tools for test generation or synthetic data creation.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or familiarity with WFA standards.