Senior QA Automation Tester - Hybrid/Remote

KCS IT; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

KCS IT in Porto, Portugal is seeking an experienced QA Automation Tester to join our hybrid team. You will design, implement and maintain automated tests for both frontend and backend applications, ensuring functionality and reliability across microservices.

The ideal candidate has 4–5 years of hands-on testing experience, strong knowledge of test frameworks, and fluency in English to collaborate with multinational teams. Experience with CI/CD and API testing is a plus.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of automated software testing experience.
• Strong experience building and maintaining automated tests for frontend and backend.
• Hands-on with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, or JUnit.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Deep understanding of functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Fluent English (spoken and written) for multinational collaboration.
• Experience with automated API testing (Postman, REST Assured, Karate).
• Familiarity with BDD/TDD methodologies (Cucumber, SpecFlow).
• Exposure to microservices testing strategies.
• Experience with test reporting and monitoring tools.

Skills

Test automation experience

Frontend & Backend testing

CI/CD familiarity

Fluent English

BDD/TDD familiarity

Microservices testing

Test reporting & monitoring

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

TestNG

JUnit

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

KCS IT in Porto, Portugal is seeking an experienced QA Automation Tester to join our hybrid team. You will design, implement and maintain automated tests for both frontend and backend applications, ensuring functionality and reliability across microservices.

The ideal candidate has 4–5 years of hands-on testing experience, strong knowledge of test frameworks, and fluency in English to collaborate with multinational teams. Experience with CI/CD and API testing is a plus.