Senior QA Automation Engineer
CellPoint Digital
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Irving • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
CypressDistributed SystemsSDLCSeleniumTypeScript
About the role
- Analyze complex business requirements with a QA perspective and provide constructive feedback to ensure testability and clarity
- Proactively collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to identify requirement gaps and improve quality outcomes early in the SDLC
- Perform exploratory testing during planning and early development phases to uncover edge cases and refine acceptance criteria
- Author comprehensive test plans and clearly structured test cases using Gherkin syntax to support Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
- Develop and maintain automated acceptance tests within a modern test automation framework (preferably Playwright)
- Contribute to building internal QA documentation, including user guides and testing procedures
- Investigate and support resolution of production issues by identifying root causes and contributing regression test cases
- Partner with developers to identify and define unit and integration test coverage, ensuring robust test pyramids
- While the focus is on automation, contribute to manual testing efforts as needed during exploratory or pre-release testing
Requirements
- Proven experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD); deep familiarity with Cucumber and Gherkin is essential
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end automation frameworks such as Playwright (preferred), Selenium, Cypress, or similar
- Proficient in Typescript and comfortable contributing to automated test suites within a modern CI/CD pipeline
- Deep understanding of software testing methodologies, test lifecycle management, and SDLC best practices
- Experience with distributed systems and the challenges of testing them effectively
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills to identify test failures and system defects quickly
- Bonus: Familiarity with payment systems, transactional workflows, or payment gateway integration
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documenting test strategies and collaborating across teams
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with multiple priorities and stakeholders
- Self-starter with a solution-oriented mindset and a passion for improving software quality
- Able to work effectively in a remote-first, globally distributed team environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up
- Rewards & Recognition system
- Opportunity for personal and professional growth in a dynamic industry
- Work from anywhere in the world; we're a fully distributed company, and we provide the tools, culture, and support to make your work setup work for you
- Occasional travel to Europe (UK, Copenhagen, Bulgaria)
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Hard skills
Behavior Driven DevelopmentCucumberGherkinPlaywrightSeleniumCypressTypescripttest lifecycle managementsoftware testing methodologiesautomated test suites
Soft skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillswritten communicationverbal communicationcollaborationself-startersolution-oriented mindsetadaptabilitytime managementagile environment