QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Develop a Comprehensive QA Strategy:

• Create, document, and maintain a clear QA strategy that aligns with our operational goals and product roadmap.
• Promote a shift-left testing culture, ensuring quality considerations are embedded from the early stages of design and development.
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to ensure the strategy is well understood and consistently applied across all teams and codebases.

Collaboration and Continuous Improvement: 

• Work closely with developers throughout the SDLC to provide feedback on testability, code quality, and potential edge cases.
• Support the team in both maintaining existing features and ensuring high quality in the development of new features.
• Manage bugs, incidents, and root cause analysis efforts, while continuously improving quality practices and testing standards.

Testing and Automation:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated end-to-end and integration tests for our Laravel and React applications.
• Develop and manage API test suites to validate backend functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Leverage Cypress and Playwright to automate high-value test scenarios that reflect real-world user behavior.
• Continuously improve and scale our test automation infrastructure to accelerate development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a QA Engineer or Software Tester.
• Experience with Automation Testing is non negotiable. 
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies and tools
• Experience with Postman API testing suite and Cypress & Playwright.
• Familiarity with Javascript and PHP.
• Familiarity with Github Actions and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AWS services is a plus.

The Right Mindset 

• Analytical mind with great attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Working location

• Working hours according to Central European Time (CET)
•  Based in Europe or South Africa, and hired remotely unless based in the Netherlands.

Workwize Offers

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Top-notch tools and equipment provided.
• Vibrant, entrepreneurial culture with opportunities for growth.
• Off-sites and multi-yearly team bonding events.
• Team lunches and surprise events to keep things fun.
• Pension scheme. (Netherlands only).
• Classpass corporate membership (Netherlands only).