Role Overview

We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer to help us scale quality across a fast-moving engineering team. This role is about building the automation, processes, and release confidence that keep pace with a team already working with AI-assisted development. You'll support a medium-sized team on your own, so independence, organization, and the ability to create scalable ways of working are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated tests for frontend, backend, and API flows
• Use Playwright as a core testing platform, with tests written in TypeScript or C# depending on the best fit
• Test microservices-based systems with an understanding of dependencies, release sequencing, and service interactions
• Coordinate release readiness across the team, helping identify what needs to be tested first and what can go out together
• Test Azure-based and event-driven workflows, including message-based scenarios such as Service Bus topics and related integrations
• Combine automation with manual and exploratory testing where it adds the most value
• Improve the way manual testing is enabled so it remains efficient and sustainable as the team grows
• Collaborate closely with developers, the engineering manager, and other stakeholders to build a practical quality process
• Use AI-assisted tools to speed up test creation, maintenance, triage, and analysis
• Help ensure quality scales with the speed of the team instead of becoming a bottleneck

Required Experience & Skills

Required

• At least 4 years of professional experience in QA, test automation, software engineering, or a closely related field
• Strong experience with test automation, ideally across both frontend and API testing
• Experience with Playwright or a similar modern automation framework
• Good working knowledge of TypeScript, C#, or another language used for automation
• Practical understanding of release coordination in microservices-based systems
• Experience testing APIs and backend workflows
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud-based environments
• A practical, organized approach to working independently and structuring your own process
• Curious, adaptable, and open to using AI tools to work more efficiently
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with developers and stakeholders
• A mindset that balances quality, speed, and pragmatism

Preferred

• Experience building or improving QA processes for a growing team
• Experience with event-driven or message-based systems
• Experience with infrastructure or environment concepts that help with reliable testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and how automated tests fit into them
• Experience using AI tools to support testing, analysis, or maintenance
• Experience working in a product-oriented, fast-moving engineering environment
• Experience with security-related or data-sensitive systems

What We Offer

We have been recognized as a top place to work! In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer great benefits and access to management and Microsoft training.

Come as you are! We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Ontinue welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.

Next Steps

If you have the skills and experience required and feel that Ontinue is a place you can belong, we would love to get to know you better! Please drop an application to this role and our talent acquisition manager will be in touch to discuss further.

Learn more: www.ontinue.com