QA Engineer

🕒 August 5

🌐 Philippines, South Africa, +1 more countries – Remote

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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First Principles Catalyst

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Startup

First Principles Catalyst is a consultancy specializing in coaching and fractional leadership for startups in national security, AI, and emerging technologies. With a focus on product management, they offer services like product coaching, development sprints, and AI strategy to help companies accelerate their innovation processes. Led by experienced product executives, First Principles Catalyst employs scientific methodologies to refine ideas and validate product concepts, enabling startups to bring impactful solutions to market quickly and effectively.

📋 Description

• Manually test new features before release, including happy and unhappy paths • Drive release preparation and post-release testing, including code freezes, change identification, smoke testing, and regression testing • Build and maintain automated test suites across API, web UI, and service-to-service layers • Own and maintain the proxy and test environment simulating production message sending • Keep test environments updated to reflect new functionality and realistic production conditions • Reproduce client and end-user issues and document reproduction steps, trace IDs, log excerpts, and metrics • Set up and configure performance and load testing frameworks • Run scheduled performance and load tests and facilitate results review • Configure and operate test and staging environments • Schedule automated test runs through CI and verify environments, keys, queues, and AWS metrics • Collaborate with the product manager during requirements gathering and document manual test cases • Improve the team's QA process over time

🎯 Requirements

• Expert-level experience with modern UI and API automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or similar • Ability to write, review, and modify automation code independently • Strong testing mindset and detail orientation • Ability to write clear, complete test cases and reproduce bugs methodically • Understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including producer/consumer and pub/sub patterns • Knowledge of consumer lag, message redelivery and duplication, poison messages, and dead-letter queues • Ability to trace logical operations across services and queues • Familiarity with AWS • Familiarity with Lambda • Familiarity with JavaScript and TypeScript • Familiarity with queue systems, specifically BullMQ or similar • Familiarity with DocumentDB • Familiarity with Redis • Some DevOps familiarity for standing up environments and scheduling test runs • Comfort using AI tools to support testing and generate automation code • General engineering and scripting ability in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar • Ability to build tooling and test harnesses and modify automation code for AI agents • Ability to develop product empathy and understand real-world application behavior

🏖️ Benefits

• 1099 contractor engagement • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule • US timezone overlap