QA Engineer (Manual + Automation)

Softadom; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Softadom is seeking a quality engineer who values understanding user behavior over checkbox coverage, blending structured manual testing with risk-based prioritization and focused automation where it pays off.

You will review requirements for testability, design smoke and regression suites, document defects with clear context, and drive testing strategy under tight timelines while contributing to CI pipelines to reduce flaky tests.

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing of web or mobile products with attention to edge cases.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and decision criteria for automation.
• Excellent writing for defect reports and test plans.
• Curiosity and persistence in tracing issues to root cause.
• Comfort asking about expected behavior early in the cycle.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements for testability and surface ambiguities early.
• Design and execute smoke and regression suites for critical journeys.
• File defects with context, steps, and impact for fast triage.
• Drive risk-based testing when timelines tighten.
• Build and maintain automation where it adds value and reduces flakes.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation awareness

Test planning

Bug reporting

Root cause analysis

Job description

Role overview

A quality engineering role that values deep understanding of user behavior over checkbox coverage. The position blends structured exploratory testing, risk-based prioritization, and targeted automation where the return justifies the investment.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements for testability before development begins and surface ambiguities while they are still cheap to resolve.
• Design and execute smoke and regression suites that cover critical user journeys without becoming brittle.
• File defects with enough context, reproduction steps, and impact notes to enable fast triage and resolution.
• Drive risk-based testing when timelines compress, helping the team decide what to verify deeply versus what to spot-check.
• Build and maintain automation where it pays off, focusing on stable selectors, continuous integration hooks, and reducing flakes.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with structured manual testing of web or mobile products.
• Working knowledge of test automation frameworks and a sense of when automation genuinely helps versus when it adds overhead.
• Strong written communication, especially in defect reports and test plans.
• Curiosity and persistence in tracing issues back to root causes rather than stopping at symptoms.
• Comfort asking "what is the expected behavior?" early and often, even when the answer feels obvious.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating test suites into CI pipelines and reducing flake rates in fast-moving environments.