Senior QA Engineer ( Manual & Automation )

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Arionkoder is an AI consulting firm helping companies build, embed, and own AI systems that drive real business outcomes. We combine Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Team Augmentation to craft digital products and solutions that create lasting impact — guided by a human-centric approach and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of what technology can do.</span></p></div><p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="154" data-local-id="81ee354cdfdf"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a&nbsp;<strong>Senior Quality Engineer</strong> to own quality end-to-end across one of our core product teams and continuously raise the quality bar of the products you support.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="586" data-local-id="98586c05b43e"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, product managers, designers, and DevOps to shape what "done" means: defining acceptance criteria, designing test coverage that reflects real product risk, and acting as the final checkpoint before anything reaches production. You bring an <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">AI</em>-first mindset to the craft—using <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">AI</em> tools to accelerate test design, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">automation</em>, triage, and reporting, with the judgment to know when to trust the output and when not to.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="1054" data-local-id="1fab4e1c9278"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is not a role for someone who waits for tickets to be marked "ready for QA." We need a quality engineer who challenges unclear requirements, asks the uncomfortable questions early, and treats production confidence as a deliverable — measured in fewer surprises in production, faster releases, and a stronger quality culture across the teams you work with.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="1054" data-local-id="1fab4e1c9278">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="1054" data-local-id="1fab4e1c9278"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Required Qualifications</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;" data-renderer-start-pos="1054" data-local-id="1fab4e1c9278">&nbsp;</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="62d6f3ed-fb21-4b69-a948-03a8dbcd4e95" data-indent-level="1"> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4393" data-local-id="0131791ad627"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em data-renderer-mark="true"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Quality Engineering / QA experience</strong> in modern software products, with demonstrable depth in both manual and <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">automation</em> (not one bolted onto the other).</em></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4573" data-local-id="51795886e00b"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em data-renderer-mark="true"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Experience designing test cases, test plans, and test strategies</strong> for non-trivial systems — covering happy paths, edge cases, negative scenarios, integrations, and non-functional risks.</em></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4759" data-local-id="610d2c000cae"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em data-renderer-mark="true"><strong>Experience building and maintaining automated test suites in production-grade CI environments,</strong> with hands-on framework decisions and ownership of flakiness, reliability, and reporting.</em></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4945" data-local-id="e3db18114731"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em data-renderer-mark="true">Strong <strong data-renderer-mark="true">experience with at least one modern UI <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">automation</em> tool</strong> (<em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Playwright</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Cypress</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Selenium</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Appium</em>, or equivalent) and at least one <strong><em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">API testing</em> approach</strong> (<em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Postman</em>, REST clients, or automated API frameworks such as <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">RestAssured</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Supertest</em>, Pytest+requests, or similar).</em></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5217" data-local-id="ba967fad7821"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em data-renderer-mark="true">Working knowledge of test case management tools (<em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Qase</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">TestRail</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Xray</em>, <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">Zeph