about 1 month ago
Base Salary
$90k - $115k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Senior Automation Engineer to expand and maintain the Playwright automation test suite.
- Develop and improve end-to-end automated tests for critical product workflows.
- Identify manual test scenarios that should be automated to increase coverage.
- Participate in pull request reviews and follow established automation best practices.
- Help ensure automated tests run reliably within CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute functional, regression, and exploratory testing for new and existing features.
- Validate product releases to ensure critical workflows remain stable.
- Identify, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps.
- Investigate failing automated tests and identify root causes.
- Review application logs, traces, and monitoring tools to diagnose issues.
- Analyze API responses and backend behavior to ensure system integrity.
- Identify patterns and trends in recurring failures to improve overall test stability.
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and QA team members during development cycles.
- Collaborate with offshore QA engineers to maintain alignment on testing standards and processes.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies including standups, planning, and retrospectives.
- Follow and help reinforce QA and automation best practices.
- Contribute to improving test coverage and documentation.
- Continue developing technical skills in automation, testing strategies, and QA tools.
Requirements
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
- Experience with automated testing tools or frameworks (Playwright is a plus).
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript or another programming language used in test automation.
- Understanding of testing methodologies such as functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Ability to read logs and traces to diagnose issues and test failures.
- Familiarity with Git and pull request workflows.
- Understanding of API responses and backend data validation.
- Experience using monitoring tools such as Datadog, Kibana, or Splunk is a plus.
- Experience working with Agile development teams.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with distributed teams.
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation.
- Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ).
- Dental & Vision Insurance.
- Wellhub Memberships.
- 401k plan with company match.
- Commuter Benefits.
- Supplemental Life Insurance.
- Stock Options.
Tech Stack
DatadogGitJavaScriptKibanaSplunkTypeScript