(1317) Senior Test Engineer

Explore the Nortal experience! 

🌐 Join our close-knit LATAM remote team: Connect through fun activities like coffee breaks, tech talks, and games with your team-mates and management. 

🍃 Say goodbye to micromanagement! We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. 

⚖️Your well-being matters: Our People Care team is here from day one to support you with everything from time-off requests to wellness check-ins. 

Plus, our Accounts Management team ensures smooth, effective client relationships, so you can focus on what you do best. 

Ready to grow with us? 🚀 
 
Here’s what we offer you by joining us! 
 
✨ Competitive USD salary 💲 – We value your skills and contributions! 

🌐 100% remote work 🏢 – While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM!  

💼 Paid time off – Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations, all while receiving your full salary. Rest, recharge, and come back stronger!  

🎉 National Holidays celebrated 🌴 – Take time off to celebrate important events and traditions with loved ones, fully embracing your culture. 

😷 Sick leave – Focus on your health without the stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. 

💸 Refundable Annual Credit – Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance! 

🤝 Team-building activities – Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. 

🥳 Birthday day off 🎂 – Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family! 
 
About the project 
 
As a Senior Software Test Engineer, you will drive the automated test strategy across the organization, validating user-facing interfaces, APIs, and backend services to ensure software behaves as intended in production. The Senior Software Test Engineer will report to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, and will design and implement test procedures that ensure reliability, scalability, and quality across the full application stack. 
 
How you'll contribute 
 
✅ Own the quality strategy for key initiatives across frontend, backend, and data pipelines. 
✅ Define test approaches, quality gates, and release criteria for distributed, event-driven systems. 
✅ Design and build robust automation ( TypeScript ) for UI (Playwright), API/contract (REST/GraphQL, Pact), and event streams (Kafka-centric validation and consumer tests). 
✅ Implement CI/CD quality gates: parallelized test suites, flaky-test detection, test impact analysis, and fast feedback loops using pipelines and containerized runners. 
✅ Expand non-functional coverage: performance/load (k6/JMeter/Gatling),