Senior QA Automation Engineer – AI-First Testing

Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer – AI-First Testing

Location:
Remote LATAM Duration: 12+ month contract Compensation: Competitive, based on experience Work

Requirements:
Citizen of the country of employment or authorized to work in that country. Senior QA Automation Engineer – AI-First Testing Our clientis seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior QA Automation Engineer to support quality engineering initiatives across its enterprise energy software platforms, with an initial focus on its Accounting/ERP application. The ideal candidate combines strong software testing fundamentals with advanced Playwright/TypeScript automation experience, practical knowledge of Playwright MCP, and daily use of AI-assisted development and testing workflows. This is not a traditional manual QA position or a role focused solely on maintaining existing automated test scripts. We are looking for an engineer who can independently design test scenarios, develop and troubleshoot automation, explore complex application functionality, and effectively incorporate AI agents into the software testing lifecycle. Candidates must demonstrate both strong technical fundamentals and the judgment to validate AI-generated output rather than relying on it without review.

Key Responsibilities
Playwright Automation & Engineering
- Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot automated test suites using Playwright with TypeScript.
- Build and enhance reusable test automation components, including fixtures, page objects, locators, assertions, and test-data utilities.
- Develop automated coverage for UI, end-to-end workflows, APIs, and integrated application functionality.
- Investigate flaky tests, synchronization issues, unreliable locators, and test-data dependencies.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows to support regression testing and release validation.
- Maintain reliable, maintainable automation that can scale with ongoing application development. AI-First Quality Engineering
- Incorporate AI-assisted tools and agents into day-to-day testing, automation development, test design, debugging, and defect investigation.
- Work with Playwright MCP to support AI-driven browser interaction, test development, and automation workflows.
- Apply AI-assisted approaches to generating test scenarios, identifying coverage gaps, troubleshooting failures, and improving test maintenance.
- Understand foundational LLM concepts, including tokens, context windows, prompts, and the practical limitations of AI-generated output.
- Independently review, validate, correct, and improve AI-generated test cases, scripts, locators, and assertions.
- Identify false positives, incomplete coverage, incorrect assumptions, and unreliable AI-generated tests.
- Combine AI-driven efficiency with sound software engineering and quality assurance practices. Exploratory & Manual Testing
- Independently design and execute exploratory testing against complex enterprise applications.
- Analyze business requirements, acceptance criteria, and application behavior to identify risks and testing priorities.
- Develop meaningful positive, negative, boundary, and edge-case scenarios beyond predefined test scripts.
- Investigate unexpected application behavior and identify defects that may not be detected through automated regression testing.
- Perform manual validation where business complexity, changing functionality, or testing risk requires human judgment.
- Document defects with clear reproduction steps, supporting evidence, expected results, and actual behavior.
- Apply risk-based testing practices to business-critical accounting and financial workflows. API, Backend & Data Validation
- Design and execute API tests to validate application functionality beyond the user interface.
- Validate API requests, responses, status codes, payloads, error handling, and business rules.
- Perform backend and database validation, including SQL queries where applicable, to verify data integrity.
- Test interactions between frontend functionality, APIs, backend services, and underlying data.
- Identify inconsistencies between displayed application data and backend processing.
- Support testing of integrated enterprise applications with complex data relationships and business workflows. QA Collaboration & Delivery
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA team members throughout Agile development cycles.
- Manage test cases, defects, and testing artifacts using Azure DevOps or comparable tools.
- Support automated regression execution and continuous improvement of QA processes.
- Contribute to test coverage, automation reliability, and release quality.
- Work independently in a distributed, remote engineering environment. Required Qualifications
- Strong professional experience in software quality assurance, including both manual and automated testing.
- Advanced, hands-on experience developing automation with Playwright and TypeScrip