Senior QA Engineer - Automation & AI Testing (Remote)

Appfire; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Vacation days

Wellness days

Volunteer time

Healthcare

Life insurance

Benefit platform

Home office allowance

Lunch card

Job summary

Appfire, a remote-first software company with 800+ employees across 28 countries, is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own automation strategy and delivery. You’ll design, implement, and maintain UI and API tests using Playwright (JS/TS) or Python, and collaborate with engineering in a distributed environment.

You’ll apply AI-assisted tooling, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to test data strategies while focusing on reliability, resilience, and high-quality releases for

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA with a strong focus on test automation.
• Proven experience building and maintaining tests with Playwright (UI and API) and JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• Daily, practical use of AI-assisted development for QA work and the ability to critically review AI-generated tests.
• Strong API and integration testing experience (auth, mocking/stubbing, debugging across services).
• Hands-on CI/CD experience running automated tests in pipelines and working with Docker.
• Solid testing fundamentals (test pyramid, risk-based testing, agile, defect lifecycle) and experience with Jira or similar.
• Excellent English (written and verbal) for distributed collaboration.
• Experience raising quality on long-lived, evolving products, not only greenfield work.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated UI, API, and integration tests with Playwright using JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• Use AI-assisted tools to speed up test design, refactoring, and failure analysis; validate output and follow data-handling guidelines.
• Plan and execute functional, regression, smoke, and critical-path testing; validate against acceptance criteria.
• Design and maintain test data approaches for CI reliability.
• Contribute to test layering and align with engineering on scope and maintainability.
• Run and maintain automated suites in CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Partner in agile ceremonies and document scenarios and defects for quick resolution.
• Reduce flaky tests, improve test code structure, and apply risk-based prioritization.
• Test REST/GraphQL APIs, validate contracts and payloads, and verify data with SQL when needed.

Skills

QA Automation

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

CI/CD

AI-assisted QA

API testing

SQL

Docker

Jira

Tools

Docker

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Appfire, a remote-first software company with 800+ employees across 28 countries, is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own automation strategy and delivery. You’ll design, implement, and maintain UI and API tests using Playwright (JS/TS) or Python, and collaborate with engineering in a distributed environment.

You’ll apply AI-assisted tooling, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to test data strategies while focusing on reliability, resilience, and high-quality releases for