Senior QA Engineer

CodeRoad; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (LATAM)

Competitive USD pay

Holidays Off & Paid Time Off

Health insurance assistance

Work with US-based clients

Job summary

CodeRoad is seeking a Senior QA Engineer focused on performance testing for a 3-month contractor project. The role is 100% remote for LATAM, with direct exposure to US-based client environments and modern tech stacks.

Responsibilities include end-to-end QA, API and backend automation, data integrity checks, and CI/CD integration. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in QA, strong automation skills (PyTest, REST Assured, Playwright, Karate, Postman), and solid SQL proficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA engineering with focus on automation.
• Strong API and backend validation experience.
• Experience designing robust automation frameworks.
• Advanced SQL skills for data validation across services.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end verification of critical workflows and data routing across ecosystems.
• Investigate, reproduce, and root-cause system errors from hub teams.
• Draft test plans and documentation, identify platform gaps and improvements.
• Develop scalable API/backend automation suites (REST/gRPC) with a 50/50 automation split.
• Write complex SQL queries to validate data migrations and integrity.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

Skills

QA Automation

API Automation

SQL

English Proficiency (C1)

Tools

PyTest

REST Assured

Playwright

Karate

Postman

Job description

Senior QA Engineer - Performance Testing

Latin America

Engagement Type: Contractor (3-Month Project)

About CodeRoad

CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.

Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.

Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?

• High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure: We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.
• Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity: Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.
• Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery: We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.
• High-Trust Employee Experience: You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate Complex System Integrations & Routing: Own end-to-end and functional verification of critical operational workflows, ensuring customer-assigned routes and logistics data flow seamlessly across merged application ecosystems and third-party endpoints.
• Triage & Resolve Hub Technical Inquiries: Act as the primary technical point of contact to investigate, reproduce, and root-cause system errors, edge cases, and field-reported issues originating from logistics and operations hub teams.
• Identify Platform Gaps & Lead Process Documentation: Perform comprehensive exploratory and functional QA audits across the platform, mapping out functional deficiencies, drafting robust test plans/technical documentation, and articulating actionable improvement strategies.
• Architect Scalable Backend & API Automation: Design, build, and maintain robust API and backend test automation suites (targeting REST/gRPC microservices) while sustaining a strategic 50% automation to 50% functional/exploratory split.
• Execute Deep Data Assertions: Write and execute advanced SQL scripts across multi-service databases to validate routing state changes, verify message integrity, and audit data sync workflows between integrated platforms.
• Drive Shift-Left Quality & CI/CD Integration: Integrate test pipelines into modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and actively collaborate with developers to propose flow optimizations and identify high-value automation opportunities.

What You Bring

• 5+ Years of Dedicated QA Experience: Proven track record in software quality engineering, demonstrating deep technical competency across functional system analysis, API/backend validation, and automated framework design.
• Strong Backend & API Automation Toolkit: Hands-on expertise automating services using tools and frameworks such as PyTest, REST Assured, Playwright, Karate, or Postman, with proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, TypeScript, Java, or C#).
• Advanced Database & Querying Skills: Solid proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL) to audit complex transactions, verify data pipeline transformations, and validate multi-system data flows.
• Functional Discovery & Problem-Solving Ownership: Demonstrated ability to dissect complex distributed systems, translate operational support issues (such as field hub escalations) into reproducible test artifacts, and communicate platform gaps with clarity.
• Bilingual Communication & Autonomy: Advanced verbal and written English proficiency (C1 minimum) for seamless collaboration with U.S. engineering stakeholders, cross-functional delivery PODs, and distributed operations teams.

What You’ll Love

• USA Contractor / 100% Remote
• Competitive Pay (USD)
• Holidays Off & Paid Time Off
• Health insurance assistance program
• Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.

This role is 100% remote and LATAM-only.