LATAM QA Automation Engineer(s)

Praxent is a company focused on building digital products and is seeking a LATAM QA Automation Engineer. The role involves enhancing the team's capacity to deliver quality assurance through automated and API testing, mentoring team members, and ensuring adherence to project specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout the project team and that these values are reflected within the QA assurance team and department
• Perform automated testing and API testing for complex applications and scenarios; locate and document edge cases by understanding the depth and intricacies of a project; assess possible risks and propose modifications to the acceptance criteria
• Demonstrate proficiency at automation, API testing, or accessibility testing principles and solutions
• Enhance the team's capacity by documenting plans to anticipated risks/blockers, advancing best practices, and mentoring peers and more junior team members
• Serve as a technical SME in the sprint, ensuring successful delivery of the sprint commitment by prioritizing testing efforts, enhancing acceptance criteria, etc
• Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting
• Present robust testing plans, metrics, and other valuable insight and direction during sprint review meetings; propose solutions and improvements to clients that improve our ability to deliver value
• Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria, tracking daily progress, limit team’s QA kickback, deliver stories as assigned, find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity

Requirements:

• demonstrable proficiency with desired technologies and tools
• Deep expertise in developing and maintaining end-to-end test frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, and/or Selenium (TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python) for web applications and Appium (Java/Python) for mobile (iOS and Android) testing
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD integration of automated tests using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, including parallel execution, test reporting, and environment management
• Testing up a test automation framework from scratch
• 5-8 years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, leading and executing automated testing for web and mobile applications, and leveraging industry-standard tools to ensure optimal product quality across all stages of the software development lifecycle
• Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value
• Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact
• Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews
• may include intensive programs, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a equivalent experience
• We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality