Senior Quality Engineer

About Us

Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 180 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.

Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join Circle, where you’ll be part of a small, agile Quality Engineering team that plays a key role in supporting our all of our engineering teams. From the design phase to product release, you’ll be driving quality practices and ensuring that we deliver the best possible product. As someone with strong technical judgment, you will play a pivotal role in fostering a “shift-left” approach to quality, helping to implement high standards and best practices while staying nimble in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll be doing

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (design, product, engineering) from the start of projects to ensure quality is integrated throughout the process.
• Leading quality initiatives and driving test automation practices to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
• Developing and maintaining automated tests across web and mobile using tools likes Playwright, Appium, and WebdriverIO with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Working with existing data factories and API’s to utilize data points to create new tests.
• Creating new architectural functionality to support automated test creation (example: Stripe, Buy Now Pay Later, ApplePay/GPay, etc.)
• Implementing CI changes and debugging failing tests
• Identifying and driving improvements to our quality processes, tools, and frameworks.
• Participating in code reviews and sharing your expertise to improve team practices around testing and quality.
• Help in driving standards and best practices around test automation, quality, and development processes.
• Continuously evaluating and exploring innovative testing approaches, including AI-powered testing strategies.
• Taking ownership of end-to-end test strategies, from design to execution, in a constantly evolving environment.
• Take project requirements and quickly turn those into test cases for traceability of system requirements and aid with test automation.
• Perform at a high level for project testing from requirements and design analysis, feature testing, exploratory testing, regression testing and UI/UX.

What you'll need to be successful

• Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet
• You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
• 5+ years of experience in test automation, with a strong emphasis on web applications. Experience with mobile applications is a plus.
• Have a proven track record of implementing technical projects from an architectural level.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.
• High proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience with implementing, maintaining, and debugging CI (We use BuildKite)
• Proven track record of delivering quality quickly in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities.
• Strong technical judgment, with a deep understanding of quality best practices, including experience implementing these practices in teams with fast-paced, evolving needs.
• Demonstrated ability to take the lead on quality initiatives, working closely with design, product, and engineering teams to ensure quality is baked in from the start.
• Proactive approach to quality with a “shift-left” mindset, identifying potential issues early, and solving them before they become problems.
• Familiarity or a keen interest in AI-driven t