LATAM Principal QA Automation Engineer

Praxent is a company focused on modernizing customer-facing software applications in the financial services sector. They are seeking a LATAM Principal QA Automation Engineer to enhance the team’s capacity for delivering high-quality projects, ensuring best practices in QA supervision, and advancing the capabilities of their testing processes.

Responsibilities:

• Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout a portfolio of projects. Reflect and instill the core values to example and leadership
• Ensure Success: Provide end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects to ensure successful delivery within budget; ensure that best practices and standards are followed by all team members across all projects
• Advance Capabilities: Continuously research and experiment with new tools and frameworks that create more value for client engagements; provide research, development and improvement of the already established processes, best practices, documentation and resources for all teams within the organization in regards to all the aspects of quality assurance
• Give Feedback: Communicate expectations throughout the project team and manage escalations promptly and thoroughly; provide a growth and development structure to team members as well as objectives that align their individual performance and organizational goals
• Set Standards: Develop standards for testing and reporting, analyze portfolio of testing metrics to advance our capabilities, research and implement new tools and processes
• Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting; assist with optimizing the process to ensure quality recruiting
• Eliminate Ambiguity: Develop detailed testing strategies that build confidence with the agile team and client stakeholders, including technical planning, rigorous subtasking, advance research, contingency plans, release criteria, etc
• Key Activities: 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 Selenium or Playwright
• Along with expertise using these frameworks with C# and .NET or Java
• 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
• Additional knowledge and experience in AI assisted development and testing (Claude Code, Cursor, CoPilot etc.)
• 8-11+ 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, A technical degree is a plus, but equivalent experience via bootcamps, self-teaching, or professional practice is equally valued
• We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality