QA ENGINEERING (AUTOMATIONS)

Study Now; United States; Remote; USD 12,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company laptop provided

Job summary

Global Student Pathway is seeking a QA automation engineer to own end-to-end tests for our MEAN-stack platform, focusing on critical journeys from lead capture to enrolment and agent onboarding. You will build automated suites in Playwright or Cypress, ensure permissioned access for staff, agents and admins, and wire tests into CI/CD with our DevOps pipeline. The role is remote from India with UK-like working hours.

Salary: £780 – £1,300/month. Company laptop provided.

Qualifications

• 3+ years testing web applications. Built substantial automated suite (not just maintained).
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript within MEAN stack. CI integrations in ecosystem.
• Experience testing complex, workflow-heavy systems where state/permissions matter.

Responsibilities

• Build an automated end-to-end test suite (Playwright, Cypress or similar) for critical journeys: lead capture to enrolment, quick-apply, offer/CAS/visa stages, commission calculation, and agent onboarding.
• Make the permission model provably safe: automated checks that each role sees exactly what it should.
• Wire the suite into CI/CD with our DevOps engineer so no release ships without the core journeys passing.
• Design regression coverage for configuration changes: test impact when an admin edits a checklist, pipeline or rate card.
• Do exploratory and edge-case testing on paths automation can’t reach and triage bugs with engineers.
• Establish lightweight QA process: test plans for new features, a bug severity scheme, and release sign-off criteria sized for a small team.

Skills

Test automation

Playwright / Cypress / Selenium

JavaScript / TypeScript

Workflow testing

Edge-case thinking

Bug reporting

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Job description

GSP (Global Student Pathway) is a configuration-first student-recruitment platform: per-country document checklists, market-scoped pipelines, a 15-stage admissions lifecycle, agent commission rate cards and a three-level permission model. That flexibility is our strength and our biggest quality risk, because a configuration change can break a workflow as easily as a code change. Technically, GSP is a MEAN-stack single-page application: Angular front end, Node/Express APIs, MongoDB, so your automation will live in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem. You will build the safety net that lets a small team change a large platform with confidence.

What you’ll do

• Build an automated end-to-end test suite (Playwright, Cypress or similar) for the critical journeys: lead capture to enrolment, quick-apply, offer/CAS/visa stages, commission calculation, and agent onboarding.
• Make the permission model provably safe: automated checks that each role — staff, agent, admin — sees exactly what it should, and nothing more.
• Wire the suite into CI/CD with our DevOps engineer so no release ships without the core journeys passing.
• Design regression coverage for configuration changes: when an admin edits a checklist, pipeline or rate card, we know what still works.
• Do exploratory and edge-case testing on the paths automation can’t reach — exception flows like drop-out with CAS, refunds, invalid-contact sequences — and triage bugs with the engineers.
• Establish lightweight QA process: test plans for new features, a bug severity scheme, and release sign-off criteria sized for a small team.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years testing web applications, with at least one substantial automated suite you built (not just maintained) in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or similar.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript — our stack is MEAN, and your test frameworks, fixtures and CI integrations will live in that ecosystem.
• Experience testing complex, workflow-heavy systems — CRMs, case management, fintech or similar — where state and permissions matter more than pixels.
• A tester’s mindset: you enjoy breaking things, you think in edge cases, and you can reason about a 9-market × multi-course-level combination space without trying to test all of it.
• Clear written communication — your bug reports and test plans are documentation the whole team relies on.

Nice to have

API testing (Postman, REST clients); performance or load testing basics; experience with data-sensitive platforms and UK and Europe GDPR awareness; edtech or marketplace background.

Working with us

Remote from India, employed through an employer-of-record or as a direct contractor (agreed at offer). Working hours: the full UK day, 10:30–19:00 UK time (15:00–23:30 IST during British Summer Time; 16:00–00:30 IST in winter). Company laptop provided.

Salary: £780 – £1,300/month

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