QA Automation Engineer (GFW - QA - 20260310)

Celara is seeking a talented, automation-first QA Engineer who is passionate about quality in software products and building products that matter. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites for front-end products and public APIs, ensuring high reliability and confidence in software releases.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for our front-end products and public API — this is the primary and non-negotiable function of this role:
• Lead end-to-end test automation using Playwright, covering functional, regression, cross-browser, and performance scenarios
• Own API test automation: write and maintain contract tests, functional tests, and integration tests for GFW's public and internal APIs
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Cloudbuild), ensuring tests run reliably on every relevant trigger
• Design and document test cases for user stories; validate acceptance criteria with the product team before implementation begins
• Define and maintain test suite organization — smoke, regression, and full suites — and determine which cases warrant automation vs. manual execution
• Run and maintain regression suites when new features are released or underlying data versions change
• Conduct periodic regression runs on production environments
• Work closely with the product team during user story definition to ensure testability and clear acceptance criteria from the start; Creating a test plan for every release
• Report bugs clearly in the issue tracking system and follow up until resolution working closedy with product to understand impact of the bug and define priority
• Define, record, and report on QA metrics to assess coverage, test reliability, and areas of product risk
• Advance overall QA strategy, tooling, and infrastructure over time

Requirements:

• Automation is the core of this role. Candidates who cannot demonstrate hands-on automation experience will not be considered
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production web applications — please be prepared to discuss specific projects and outcomes
• Proven, recent experience with Playwright for end-to-end browser automation (required)
• Solid experience with API test automation: writing contract tests, functional API tests, and integration tests
• Experience working in Agile teams with sprint-based delivery
• Experience with CI/CD integration of automated tests (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Experience with performance and cross-browser testing
• Experience with test plan and test case development, including defining what to automate vs. test manually
• Willing to comb through a complex network of interdependent tools, resources, user roles, and permissions
• Detail-oriented, with a mindset geared toward finding edge cases and breaking things
• Experience with Cypress in addition to Playwright
• Experience testing non-traditional, data-heavy applications using maps, charts, heatmaps, or other data visualizations
• Strong proficiency with Git and modern branching strategies
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized test environments
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Open-source collaboration experience