Remote Senior QA Automation Eng: Lead Quality & Testing

M8l; United States; Remote; USD 49,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

M8l in Mexico City or remote (LATAM) is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to elevate testing and automate production-grade tests. You’ll lead testing strategies, mentor engineers on quality, and partner with squads to improve coverage and reliability.

The role requires 3–5+ years of QA automation, strong programming skills (Java/JS/Python), and hands-on use of Selenium, Playwright, CI/CD tools, and observability. Remote LATAM work is supported.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years as a QA Automation Engineer.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Dart).
• Hands-on automation across Web/API/Mobile with Selenium/Cucumber/Appium/Playwright.
• Deep testing architecture knowledge: unit/integration/e2e/contract testing.

Responsibilities

• Mentor engineers on quality and testing practices.
• Own test strategy and drive quality metrics (coverage, flakiness, test times).
• Write production-grade automation and testing tools.
• Collaborate to shift quality left and improve design for testability.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.

Skills

QA Automation

Programming in Java

Test automation

CI/CD

Spanish fluency

Tools

Selenium

Cucumber

Playwright

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

M8l in Mexico City or remote (LATAM) is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to elevate testing and automate production-grade tests. You’ll lead testing strategies, mentor engineers on quality, and partner with squads to improve coverage and reliability.

The role requires 3–5+ years of QA automation, strong programming skills (Java/JS/Python), and hands-on use of Selenium, Playwright, CI/CD tools, and observability. Remote LATAM work is supported.