Lead QA Engineer
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AppfireSaaS software
The role is fully remote within Bulgaria, with the option to work from our Sofia office.Full-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent English
- Experience
- 7+ years in QA/test engineering
- Required Skills
- DockerPythonJavascriptTypeScriptAPI testingCI/CDPlaywright
Requirements
- Bring 7+ years of experience in QA/test engineering.
- Have a track record of evolving Playwright automation on large, long-lived SaaS products.
- Demonstrate hands-on Playwright skills for UI and API testing.
- Use JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
- Have advanced daily experience using AI-assisted development for test design, failure analysis, and coaching others.
- Apply sound judgment about when human verification is required.
- Diagnose and fix systemic quality issues involving parallelism, test data, flakiness, and pipeline design.
- Have strong CI/CD experience running and improving automated suites.
- Have experience working with Docker in cloud-hosted delivery.
- Have experience defining automation architecture and quality standards used beyond a single squad.
- Have excellent English and credibility with developers, architects, and leadership on risk and priorities.
Responsibilities
- Build and refactor critical Playwright UI and API automation.
- Evolve shared automation patterns, standards, and quality gates across squads.
- Resolve unstable test suites, CI bottlenecks, test data and environment issues, and critical-path regressions.
- Define and improve test data and environment patterns, including isolation, parallelism, and fixtures.
- Advise architects and engineering leads on API, component-level, and E2E test strategy, coverage, and automation.
- Mentor QA engineers on Playwright, CI, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Work with DevOps and developers on shift-left testing, pipeline reliability, and maintainable test environments.
- Communicate quality trade-offs and risks to product and engineering leadership.
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