SENIOR QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER (WEB AND MOBILE) (REMOTE OR HYBRID)
iTRTech Group
Remoto
Portuguese company hires for remote or hybrid position
Location: Portugal
Only candidates already based in Portugal will be considered
Work Model: Fully remote in Portugal or hybrid in Lisbon
Language Requirements: Fluent Portuguese and English
Seniority: Senior (6+ years)
Rate Between €3700 - 4000 RV or unipessoal (gross value)
Instructions: Please send your CV in English and make sure to include all skills and experience that match the requirements of the opportunity. This will significantly increase your chances of success.
About The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to define testing strategies and build scalable automation frameworks across web and mobile platforms. You will integrate quality controls into CI/CD pipelines and validate frontend, backend, APIs and data within modern, cloud-native applications.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks covering web, mobile, APIs, backend services, databases and end-to-end business processes.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, improving coverage, execution reliability and reporting.
- Create and execute test plans, cases and scenarios across functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory and acceptance testing.
- Validate application behaviour across browsers, devices and operating systems.
- Verify performance, reliability, security and accessibility requirements.
- Manage the defect lifecycle, investigate root causes and report quality results.
- Minimum 6 years of proven experience in similar QA automation roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Postman/Newman, Jest, Vitest, Testing Library and Cucumber/BDD frameworks.
- Ability to write maintainable automation code using TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js and Python.
- Experience with REST API testing, contract validation, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2/JWT authentication, service-level testing, mocking and service virtualization.
- Experience testing React and React Native applications, with knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.
- Experience validating backend services developed with Node.js, NestJS and Python.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis, including database validation, data integrity testing, SQL query analysis and test data management.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, containerized testing environments and CI/CD integration; fluent Portuguese and English.
Ideal Candidate Profile
A hands-on QA specialist who combines programming skills with a thorough understanding of software quality. You can define testing strategies, investigate complex failures and build reliable automation across web, mobile and backend systems.
5 Questions for Candidates
- How many years of experience do you have in QA automation across web and mobile applications?
- Which of the listed automation tools have you used recently, and which frameworks have you built or maintained?
- Can you describe your experience with API contracts, authentication testing and database validation?
- How have you integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Docker or AWS?
- Are you fluent in Portuguese and English and comfortable with the work model in Portugal and the €3700–4000 range?
QA Automation, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, TypeScript, API Testing, React Native, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, AWS, Docker, Robot Framework
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