Senior QA Engineer — UI/API Automation & Manual Testing

Alex Staff; Finland (MN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Friendly team culture

Long-term position

Job summary

Alex Staff is seeking a Senior QA Engineer with Automation to join our Engineering team. The role focuses on testing complex web apps across UI and API layers, with an initial emphasis on manual QA and a mid-term automation split around 70/30.

You will write and maintain automated tests (primarily Cypress) and work closely with developers in an Agile environment. Test cases are tracked in Jira, TestRail, and Qmetry.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as Manual QA at senior level.
• Hands-on automation experience: UI or API tests.
• Automation mindset and programming concepts.
• Understanding of HTTP, HTML, AJAX, JSON, REST APIs.
• Basic SQL knowledge.
• Strong written and spoken English; able to communicate in Russian or Ukrainian.
• Nice to have Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
• CI/CD experience; Agile familiarity.
• Experience with JIRA, TestRail, and Qmetry.
• Basic Linux and Git knowledge.

Responsibilities

• UI and API testing of complex integrated web applications.
• Developing and refining test plans.
• Writing and maintaining automated tests (Cypress).
• Collaborating with developers in an Agile environment.
• Tracking test cases using JIRA, TestRail, and Qmetry.
• Identifying areas to automate manual testing for reliability.

Skills

Manual QA

Automation mindset

English proficiency

REST/HTTP basics

SQL basics

Russian/Ukrainian communication

Tools

Cypress

JIRA

TestRail

Qmetry

Job description

Alex Staff is seeking a Senior QA Engineer with Automation to join our Engineering team. The role focuses on testing complex web apps across UI and API layers, with an initial emphasis on manual QA and a mid-term automation split around 70/30.

You will write and maintain automated tests (primarily Cypress) and work closely with developers in an Agile environment. Test cases are tracked in Jira, TestRail, and Qmetry.