Senior QA Architect - Remote, Build Automation Framework

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

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.