QA Automation Engineer: Build Robust Web & API Tests

Applaudo; Peru (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Applaudo offers a collaborative QA/Dev

Job summary

Applaudo is seeking a QA professional who owns the quality of web applications across the development lifecycle. You will blend manual and automated testing to identify risks, validate functionality, and help teams deliver high-quality products.

You thrive in cross-functional environments, drive day-to-day QA activities, and adapt between functional, automation, regression, defect validation, system testing, and UAT based on project needs. Excellent communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of QA or software testing experience.
• Strong hands-on testing of web applications (functional and regression).
• Experience building and executing automated test suites for web apps.
• Hands-on with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalents.
• Testing REST APIs with requests, responses, status codes, and errors.
• Designing and maintaining test plans, cases, and regression suites.
• Understanding defect lifecycle management.
• Agile environment experience collaborating with developers and product teams.
• Independent, proactive QA execution and progress communication.
• Strong analytical and communication skills; professional English.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed test plans, test cases, and regression suites.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing for web apps.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for critical workflows.
• Execute API testing for requests, responses, and error handling.
• Identify, document, reproduce, and track defects with evidence.
• Verify bug fixes and perform targeted regression.
• Participate in defect triage and risk-based prioritization.
• Support beta testing cycles and UAT validation.
• Collaborate with developers, product teams, and stakeholders.
• Maintain testing documentation and status visibility.
• Manage testing deliverables within QA strategy.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Automation testing

Playwright/Cypress/Selenium

REST API testing

Test planning

Agile collaboration

Excellent communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Job description

Applaudo is seeking a QA professional who owns the quality of web applications across the development lifecycle. You will blend manual and automated testing to identify risks, validate functionality, and help teams deliver high-quality products.

You thrive in cross-functional environments, drive day-to-day QA activities, and adapt between functional, automation, regression, defect validation, system testing, and UAT based on project needs. Excellent communication skills are essential.