Senior QA Automation Engineer

Role Overview

• You will participate in defining, testing, and validating first-class software web applications and Slack bots serving our internal Core team.
• Work to maintain and improve our automated test suites in RSpec, Jest, Playwright, and Cypress, as well as to set up automated test suites for new products or tools from scratch.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs.
• Review the work of your colleagues from white box (PR reviews) and black box (manual and exploratory) testing perspectives.
• Improve your team’s processes, brainstorm ideas, and communicate your status and progress.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and users throughout the preliminary planning phase, ensuring a holistic understanding of the product to plan and deliver new features effectively.
• Contribute to writing Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done for the team’s features.
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback and identify corner cases we must address appropriately.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• Development experience, including design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of test automation in Ruby on Rails, React, and NodeJS (a plus).
• Mentor other people, provide feedback, and grow as a part of the team.
• Actively participate in meetings, including Scrum meetings, squad meetings, pair programming sessions, etc.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Quality Assurance and test automation.
• RSpec, Jest, and Cypress are your daily bread and butter.
• Familiarity with Playwright, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Being a team player
• avoiding solo performances and helping others.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Full autonomy in daily work; unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Have a solid QA automation experience, primarily focused on adding end-to-end tests in monolithic and distributed systems.
• Have solid hands-on experience with automated testing tools for frontend and backend applications.
• Hands-on experience with different tools
• Testing tools, Version Control systems (Git), Test Management Software, Bug Tracking Software (Jira), CI tools (Jenkins, Github Actions, etc.), Docker, Kubernetes (a plus), and Google Cloud Platform (a plus).
• Critical thinking and enthusiastic skepticism.
• Bonus points for hands-on experience testing Slack bots and Jira add-ons.
• Experience or familiarity with Product Management, including understanding user needs and helping plan and deliver features, is a plus.
• You should be a proactive problem-solver and take ownership of your work, collaborating closely with the team to achieve high-quality results.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Cypress
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• GraphQL
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Jest
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• React
• RSpec
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• TypeScript

Benefits

• We develop the tools we own as a team using Ruby and Rails on Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• This is a remote position.
• Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.