QA Automation Engineer / SDET
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About the Position
We are seeking a QA Automation Engineer / SDET with strong Playwright expertise to join our team in Kyiv or remotely, focusing on building and maintaining a reliable automation framework.
About the Client
Our client is a Spanish company that helps retail and restaurant chains save time, secure compliance, and reach set goals in everyday life.
About the Project
You will help establish a reliable, scalable, and maintainable regression capability across the Mapal-OS product family, working closely with developers and engineering teams across different products and application layers.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining the Playwright automation framework.
- Automating Smoke, Core, and Extended regression tiers.
- Integrating the automation suite into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensuring the suite remains reliable and maintainable over time.
- Providing occasional manual testing support during high-pressure sprint or release periods.
Requirements
- Playwright Expertise: Very strong and recent hands-on experience with Playwright.
- Framework Ownership: Proven experience building and owning an automation framework, ideally from scratch.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of Page Object Model, locator strategies, fixtures, test data management, environment configuration, parallel execution, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
- Reliability: Experience diagnosing and reducing flaky tests and maintaining the long-term health of an automation suite.
- Automation Scope: Experience automating UI, API, integration, contract, and end-to-end scenarios.
- Process Knowledge: Good understanding of QA processes in a SaaS environment, including risk-based testing, regression strategy, test-tiering, and defect triage.
- Agile Experience: Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and two-week sprint and release cycles.
- DevOps Skills: Good Azure DevOps knowledge, specifically regarding pipelines, test result publishing, quality gates, and traceability between work items and tests.
- AI Integration: Practical experience using AI-assisted coding and testing tools (e.g., Cursor, Codex, Devin, Claude, Copilot, Playwright MCP) and the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code/tests before incorporation.
- Soft Skills: A proactive and autonomous approach with the ability to identify and raise risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Flexible working hours.
- Vacation – 20 working days’ annual leave.
- Paid sick days.
- A personal laptop with all the essential software installed.
- State holidays are granted.
- Corporate accountant, lawyer, and psychologist services.
- Bureaucracy-free and transparent management.
- Costs related to participation in workshops and professional conferences are covered.
- In-house and online corporate English classes.
- Corporate parties 2 times a year and team-building events.
Locations
- Kyiv, Ukraine (Remote)
- Warsaw, Poland
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Elena Fomina
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Svetlana Klochko
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Sergey Pruglo
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