Senior Quality Engineering / Test Automation Engineer - Remote in Mexico

Important IT company At the Latin American level, growth requires:

Senior Quality Engineering / Test Automation Engineer 

A Quality Engineering professional with strong software engineering, test automation, API testing, Azure, and CI/CD expertise, capable of building scalable automation frameworks and validating complex enterprise and AI-powered applications. 

Core Must-Haves for Screening 

7+ years QA/QE | 5+ years Automation | Playwright/Selenium/Cypress/Puppeteer | Programming | API Testing | Azure | CI/CD | Enterprise Applications 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define testing strategies, quality standards, and automation frameworks across engineering teams. 

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and suites. 

• Implement automated functional, UI, API, integration, regression, performance, and security testing. 

• Drive shift-left testing and quality practices throughout the SDLC. 

• Integrate automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. 

• Develop test plans, test cases, and test scenarios; ensure requirements are testable and traceable. 

• Analyze test failures, identify root causes, and drive resolution. 

• Test complex enterprise applications, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and microservices. 

• Validate reliability, scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and production readiness of Azure applications. 

• Develop testing and evaluation strategies for Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, chatbots, RAG, and intelligent search. 

• Mentor QA engineers and developers on automation and quality engineering best practices. 

Required Qualifications 

Experience — Must Have 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field; equivalent experience considered. 

• 7+ years of software QA / Quality Engineering experience. 

• 5+ years of hands-on test automation experience. 

• Experience testing enterprise-scale applications in Agile/Scrum environments. 

• Experience working directly with development teams throughout the SDLC. 

Technical Skills — Must Have 

Test Automation 

• Strong expertise in at least one: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or Puppeteer. 

• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks. 

• Automated regression testing and CI/CD-based test execution. 

Programming 

• Hands-on programming experience with at least one: C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PowerShell. 

• Ability to develop maintainable automation frameworks and testing utilities. 

API & Integration Testing 

• REST APIs, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI. 

• Automated API validation, integration testing, and contract testing. 

Azure & DevOps 

• Hands-on experience testing applications in Microsoft Azure. 

• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions. 

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including quality gates and release validation. 

• Working knowledge of Azure services such as App Services, Functions, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, API Management, Monitor, Application Insights, and Entra ID. 

Performance & Security 

• Experience with load/performance testing and API performance validation. 

• Understanding of software security testing and vulnerability assessment. 

AI Testing 

• Working knowledge of Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, Azure OpenAI, and/or Azure AI Search. 

• Understanding of AI testing challenges including hallucinations, grounding, accuracy, consistency, reliability, and output evaluation. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• IS