Remuneration
€1,500 referral bonus after six months; flexible remuneration; private medical insurance; 23 vacation days and an intensive schedule in July and August
Location
Madrid, MD, Spain
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The QA Automation Engineer turns quality engineering standards into reliable, measurable automation embedded in product teams. The role develops and maintains API, UI, integration, regression, and data tests; integrates suites into CI/CD pipelines; and applies AI-assisted testing techniques such as test generation and failure triage. The work supports automotive software products and includes collaboration with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams.
Benefits
Referral bonus of €1,500 after six monthsFlexible remuneration platformPrivate medical insuranceAccess to an internal continuous learning platform23 vacation daysTeam-building activities
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of QA or software testing experience, including at least 3 years of production test automation experience.
- Programming proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java, with the ability to read code in the other languages.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST-assured, or equivalent automation tools.
- Strong REST API testing experience, including JSON payloads, authentication, contract testing, and schema validation.
- Experience integrating and running automated tests in CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Practical experience using AI-powered testing tools such as LLMs or GitHub Copilot.
- Knowledge of Git, code review processes, and clean code principles for test automation.
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments.
- Ability to turn high-level objectives into actionable solutions with minimal supervision.
- Focus on reliable, maintainable, and useful test suites rather than test volume.
- Fluent English; French or Spanish is an advantage.
- Experience with AWS, cloud-native testing, Docker, infrastructure fundamentals, performance testing, SQL, or security testing is an advantage.
- Exposure to self-healing test frameworks, AI-based test generation, or test analytics platforms is an advantage.
- Experience with incident management, automotive software, enterprise SaaS, ERP platforms, integration-heavy products, or legacy application modernization is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across API, UI, integration, regression, and data layers.
- Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into test cases and automated scenarios during each sprint.
- Build reusable automation framework components, utilities, fixtures, and test data builders.
- Automate high-risk and frequently executed manual regression tests.
- Use AI tools to support test generation, test data creation, automation scripting, and failure triage.
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines and maintain quality gates, reports, and dashboards.
- Monitor automation coverage, pass and fail rates, defect leakage, and execution times.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams on testability, environments, and test data.
- Reproduce and triage production issues, validate fixes, and contribute to root-cause analysis and postmortems.
- Participate in Agile team planning and reviews, promote shift-left testing, and support unit and contract testing practices.
- Mentor QA colleagues and provide feedback on automation standards and frameworks.
Skills
AWSAzureAzure DevOpsDockerGitGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIJavaJavaScriptJenkinsPythonRESTTypeScriptGraphQLKubernetesPostgreSQL
Languages
English: FluentFrench: PreferredSpanish: Preferred
Work schedule
Flexible start and departure timesSummer Friday scheduleIntensive schedule in July and August
Industry
Automotive softwareEnterprise SaaSERP platforms
Relocation
No