Senior QA Test Automation Engineer

October 14, 2026

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Barcelona, Spain

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Description

We're hiring a Senior QA Test Automation Engineer to help shape modern quality engineering practices. The role involves building scalable web and API automation with Playwright and TypeScript, integrating tests into GitHub Actions and using AI coding agents to improve coverage and maintainability. Working within Agile teams, the engineer contributes to the automation strategy and builds reliable testing solutions that support confident releases.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript
Create and maintain automated UI, REST API, integration and end-to-end tests
Improve test coverage, execution speed and maintainability
Investigate test failures, identify root causes and eliminate flaky tests
Develop reusable components and promote quality engineering best practices
Perform exploratory testing and system-level validation
Integrate automated tests into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
Optimize test execution through parallelization, test selection and workflow improvements
Contribute to quality gates that provide fast, reliable feedback before releases
Use AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, to generate, refactor, optimize and maintain automation code
Apply AI-assisted approaches to test case generation, test data creation, failure investigation and risk-based testing

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation engineering
Strong practical experience with Playwright and TypeScript
Proven experience automating tests for web applications and REST APIs
Experience designing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks
Experience with GitHub Actions and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
Strong understanding of test design, automation architecture and quality engineering principles
Ability to diagnose automation reliability issues and CI/CD execution failures
Experience working within Agile software development teams
Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills
English proficiency
Hands-on experience with AI coding agents is a core requirement, including explaining how these tools were used to develop or maintain automated tests
Ability to validate AI-generated code and improve testing workflows

Conditions

Work within Agile teams collaborating with developers, product managers and fellow QA engineers to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle

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