Senior Automation QA Engineer - Porto - 14/10/26

Wafx; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Job summary

Wafx is seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer in Porto, operating in a hybrid setup (2 days in-office). The role focuses on defining quality strategies across the software lifecycle for SaaS products, with hands-on Playwright automation, API testing, and CI/CD integration in Agile teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of QA/Quality Engineering experience, strong automated testing skills, and a customer-centric mindset to ensure robust product quality and reliable releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Engineering, or Quality Engineering.
• Experience with SaaS/web products and continuous delivery environments.
• Experience in API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Agile/Scrum team experience with frequent product releases.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive quality engineering strategies for SaaS products throughout the SDLC.
• Implement and maintain Playwright-based automation frameworks.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.
• Identify risks and improve automation reliability; work within Agile environments.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test Automation

Agile/Scrum

SDLC/STLC

Risk-based testing

Tools

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

Job description

Senior Automation QA Engineer - Porto - 14/10/26

Country

PT Portugal

Location

Porto - Hybrid (2x/week in the office)

Senior

Work type

Hybrid

Imediato

1 year

Laptop provided

Yes

Senior Automation QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and Test Automation. Responsible for defining and driving quality engineering strategies for SaaS products, ensuring high product quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Experienced in Playwright-based automation, API testing, CI/CD integration, and quality best practices within Agile environments.

Requirements and qualifications

Years of Experience

5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Engineering, or Quality Engineering.

3+ years of hands‑on experience in test automation.

Strong experience testing SaaS and web‑based products in continuous delivery environments.

Experience with API, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with frequent product releases.

Functional Skills

Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and modern Quality Engineering practices.

Ability to define and execute risk‑based testing strategies.

Experience in functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and end‑to‑end testing.

Ability to translate business requirements into automated test scenarios.

Strong customer‑centric testing mindset focusing on critical user journeys and business workflows.

Technical Skills

Playwright & Test Automation

Strong hands‑on experience with Playwright for web application automation.

Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks.

Experience with Page Object Model, fixtures, reusable components, test isolation, parallel execution, retries, and test data management.

Experience troubleshooting flaky tests and improving automation reliability.

Experience with Playwright traces, screenshots, videos, logs, and automated reporting.

Experience testing:

• User registration, authentication, and onboarding.
• Role‑based access control and permissions.
• Multi‑tenant workflows and tenant isolation.
• Subscription, licensing, and entitlement‑based functionality.
• Configurable product features.
• Third‑party integrations.
• Notifications and asynchronous workflows.
• Data import/export and reporting.

Ability to identify functional, integration, data, security, and operational risks.

Strong defect management and root‑cause analysis skills.

Understanding of release management and continuous delivery practices.

Ability to determine the most appropriate testing level and avoid unnecessary UI‑based testing.