Software Development Quality Engineer

Tail Light is an innovative company in the e-commerce sector seeking a QA Engineer to join their fully remote engineering team. The role focuses on testing backend API services and frontend web clients through automation and manual testing, while also developing CI/CD capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build automated test suites for APIs and backend services (functional, regression, integration)
• Design and build browser automation tests for frontend client applications (e.g., using Playwright or Cypress)
• Work with engineers to define test strategy and acceptance criteria before features ship
• Propose and drive adoption of new testing practices and tooling, not just executing existing plans
• Improve test coverage and reduce manual QA load over time through CI/CD improvements
• Collaborate closely with developers to identify edge cases and failure modes early in the development cycle
• Generate test plans based on ticket acceptance criteria
• Verify successful production releases

Requirements:

• Experience writing automated tests for both backend services and frontend web applications, including hands-on experience with a browser automation framework (Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium)
• Comfort reading and writing code for Node/JS/TS applications
• Strong debugging and root-cause investigation skills
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Willingness to use AI tooling
• Experience using AI tools for test generation, code review, or debugging workflows
• Security testing exposure
• Experience with test case management software (Testmo, TestRail, etc)