Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright - Remote

Valtech; Portugal; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Career development

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Valtech is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own the Playwright framework, design robust tests, and collaborate with developers and clients to deliver reliable automation across web and mobile. You will leverage AI agents to accelerate test design, maintainability, and coverage, while mentoring teammates and shaping the QA community.

You will work in a remote-friendly environment within Portugal, focusing on test automation reliability, API and microservice validation, and continuous

Qualifications

• Strong command of Playwright core model: fixtures, locator strategy, auto-waiting, network interception and mocking.
• Proven experience defining and implementing a framework architecture.
• API automation and microservices testing with HTTP tools.
• CI/CD experience with major pipeline tools.
• Practical BDD experience in an Agile team.
• Demonstrated AI-assisted testing practices and QA automation innovation.

Responsibilities

• Test APIs and microservice-based systems alongside the UI.
• Run BDD collaboratively with analysts, developers and the client.
• Diagnose flaky and intermittent failures and find root causes.
• Use AI coding agents to speed up test design, authoring and maintenance.
• Help define AI-assisted testing practices and review gates.
• Extend automation coverage into mobile as project needs.
• Coach colleagues and share QA best practices.
• Explain quality risks and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Playwright

QA automation

API testing

CI/CD

BDD

AI-assisted testing

Tools

CI/CD tooling

HTTP inspection tools

AI agents

Job description

Valtech is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own the Playwright framework, design robust tests, and collaborate with developers and clients to deliver reliable automation across web and mobile. You will leverage AI agents to accelerate test design, maintainability, and coverage, while mentoring teammates and shaping the QA community.

You will work in a remote-friendly environment within Portugal, focusing on test automation reliability, API and microservice validation, and continuous