Senior QA Engineer ( Manual & Automation )

Arionkoder; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly USD Service Fee

Paid Time Off (20 business days)

Caregiver Time Off

Remote-friendly culture

Entrepreneurial environment

Job summary

Arionkoder is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to own end-to-end quality across core product teams, shaping test coverage and acceptance criteria. The role emphasizes an AI-first approach to design, automate, and report quality metrics while collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and DevOps.

You will challenge unclear requirements, drive risk-based testing, and act as a quality advocate to reduce surprises in production and accelerate safe releases in a fully remote,

Qualifications

• Experience in modern software products with both manual and automated testing.
• Ability to design test cases, plans, and strategies for complex systems.
• Experience building and maintaining automated test suites in production CI environments.
• Strong UI automation experience (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium) and API testing approaches.
• Working knowledge of test case management and bug tracking tools.
• CI/CD fluency: wiring tests into pipelines and understanding quality gates and reporting.
• Fundamentals of risk-based, boundary, equivalence, and exploratory testing.
• Ability to define quality gates and perform release readiness checks.
• Excellent written and spoken English; experience with remote teams.
• Senior judgment to operate autonomously and challenge unclear requirements.
• AI-first working style with daily use of AI tools for test design and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality for scope; define risk-based test strategies and surface ambiguity early.
• Run manual QA and Exploratory testing guided by risk and user personas.
• Design, maintain, and execute test cases covering happy paths, edges, and non-functional risks.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated UI, API, and integration tests.
• Triage defects, track to resolution, and produce concise release-quality reports.
• Define and enforce quality gates for staging, UAT, and production; support DevOps with hotfixes.

Skills

QA experience

Test design

Automation testing

UI automation

API testing

CI/CD

Risk-based testing

English communication

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Jira

Job description

LATAM

Arionkoder is an AI consulting firm helping companies build, embed, and own AI systems that drive real business outcomes. We combine Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Team Augmentation to craft digital products and solutions that create lasting impact — guided by a human-centric approach and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of what technology can do.

We are looking for aSenior Quality Engineer to own quality end-to-end across one of our core product teams and continuously raise the quality bar of the products you support.

You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, product managers, designers, and DevOps to shape what "done" means: defining acceptance criteria, designing test coverage that reflects real product risk, and acting as the final checkpoint before anything reaches production. You bring an AI-first mindset to the craft—using AI tools to accelerate test design, automation, triage, and reporting, with the judgment to know when to trust the output and when not to.

This is not a role for someone who waits for tickets to be marked "ready for QA." We need a quality engineer who challenges unclear requirements, asks the uncomfortable questions early, and treats production confidence as a deliverable — measured in fewer surprises in production, faster releases, and a stronger quality culture across the teams you work with.

Required Qualifications

• Quality Engineering / QA experience in modern software products, with demonstrable depth in both manual and automation (not one bolted onto the other).
• Experience designing test cases, test plans, and test strategies for non-trivial systems — covering happy paths, edge cases, negative scenarios, integrations, and non-functional risks.
• Experience building and maintaining automated test suites in production-grade CI environments, with hands-on framework decisions and ownership of flakiness, reliability, and reporting.
• Strong experience with at least one modern UI automation tool (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, or equivalent) and at least one API testing approach (Postman, REST clients, or automated API frameworks such as RestAssured, Supertest, Pytest+requests, or similar).
• Working knowledge of test case management tools (Qase, TestRail, Xray, Zephyr, or similar) and bug tracking tools (Jira, Linear, Asana, or similar).
• CI/CD fluency: comfortable wiring automated tests into pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar; understands quality gates, parallelization, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of software testing fundamentals: risk-based testing, equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, exploratory testing techniques, and regression strategy.
• Strong release readiness mindset: ability to define quality gates, run release validation, and make confident go/no-go calls backed by evidence.
• Excellent written and spoken English; comfortable working in fully remote, distributed teams.
• Senior judgment: ability to operate autonomously, challenge unclear requirements, prioritize by risk, and own outcomes without micromanagement.
• AI-first working style: hands-on, daily use of AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) to accelerate test design, automation, debugging, and documentation — with the judgment to know when to trust the output and when not to.

What this person will own and do day-to-day

Quality Ownership and Test Strategy

Own end-to-end quality for the products and features in your scope. Define test strategies based on product risk, release goals, and business impact — not generic checklists. Influence quality upstream by reviewing requirements and designs to surface ambiguity, edge cases, and testability issues early. Identify non-functional risks (performance, security, accessibility, data integrity) and ensure they're addressed or escalated.

Manual QA and Exploratory Testing

Run structured exploratory sessions guided by risk and user personas. Cover what automation can't yet: complex flows, visual checks, new feature shakedowns, third-party integrations. Document findings clearly: reproducible steps, environment, expected vs. actual, severity, impact. Act as a user advocate during pre-release validation.

Test Case Design and Documentation

Design test cases covering happy paths, edge cases, negative scenarios, role/state transitions, integrations, and relevant non-functional risks. Maintain traceability to requirements, acceptance criteria, and product risks. Build and maintain smoke tests, regression suites, and release checklists as living assets.

Automation QA

Design, implement, and maintain automated suites across UI, API, and integration layers. Decide what to automate based on stability, ROI, and risk — and what not to. Keep flakiness under control; contribute to the framework itself (utilities, fixtures, test data, reporting).

Defect Management and Quality Reporting

Triage, prioritize, and track defects to resolution with clean hygiene (title, severity, repro, environment, and links). Produce concise, release-quality reports: what was tested, what wasn't, known risks, and recommendations. Surface trends and turn them into actionable improvements.

Release Readiness and Quality Gates

Own release validation: smoke, regression, environment checks, sign-off criteria. Define and enforce quality gates for staging, UAT, and production. Coordinate with DevOps on hotfixes, rollback, and post-release monitoring. Make confident go/no-go calls backed by evidence.

Monthly USD Service Fee
20 business days of paid Agreed Time Off—Annual + 6 Local Holidays
Caregiver Time Off
A dynamic remote work culture. You can work from anywhere!
An entrepreneurial environment.

About us

In 2010, our founders dreamed up a company that could positively impact the world. Since then, we've been in permanent evolution: from business consulting to innovation and design, and now to building amazing digital products powered by AI. We scaled globally, launched AI Labs and Reshape Studios, and claimed our space as an AI consulting firm — helping organizations move from pilots to production through accountable AI. Today, we're expanding our impact across industries, driving real AI adoption through accountability, governance, and value at scale. Dreamers first, builders always.

Please note that the role is 100% in English on a daily basis, and a large part of the hiring process will also be conducted in English.