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Appfire

Lead QA Engineer

Appfire

. Build and refactor critical Playwright UI and API automation .

Posted 11/1/2026full-timeRemote • BulgariaSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in Playwright UI and API automation, with a strong focus on CI/CD practices and automation architecture. Proven ability to mentor teams, improve quality standards, and communicate effectively with technical leadership.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Playwright AutomationJavaScript/TypeScriptCI/CD ExperienceDocker in Cloud-Hosted DeliveryAI-Assisted Development

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Hard Skills
Playwright AutomationJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonCI/CD PracticesTest Data ManagementAutomation ArchitectureQuality StandardsFailure AnalysisSystemic Quality Issue Diagnosis
Soft Skills
MentoringCommunicationJudgmentCollaborationCredibility
Tools & Technologies
DockerCI/CD PipelinesAI-Assisted Development ToolsTest Automation FrameworksCloud-Hosted Delivery Platforms
Industry Keywords
SaaS ProductsQuality AssuranceTest EngineeringAutomation PatternsE2E Testing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDockerJavaScriptPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and refactor critical Playwright UI and API automation
  • Evolve shared automation patterns, standards, and quality gates across squads
  • Act as the primary technical escalation for unstable suites, CI bottlenecks, test data and environment issues, and critical-path regressions
  • Define and improve test data and environment patterns for reliable CI/CD scaling
  • Advise on API, component-level, and E2E test strategy, including layering, coverage, and automation scope
  • Mentor QA engineers on Playwright, CI, and AI-assisted workflows
  • Champion reusable approaches across teams
  • Work with DevOps and developers on shift-left testing, pipeline reliability, and maintainable Docker-based test environments
  • Communicate quality trade-offs and risks to product and engineering leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years in QA/test engineering with experience evolving Playwright automation on large, long-lived SaaS products
  • Hands-on Playwright skills for UI and API automation
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python
  • Advanced daily use of AI-assisted development for test design, failure analysis, and coaching
  • Sound judgment on when human verification is required
  • Ability to diagnose and fix systemic quality issues, including parallelism, test data, flakiness, and pipeline design
  • Strong CI/CD experience running and improving automated suites
  • Experience working with Docker in cloud-hosted delivery
  • Experience defining automation architecture and quality standards used beyond a single squad
  • Excellent English
  • Credibility with developers, architects, and leadership on risk and priorities

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Company equity eligibility
  • 25 paid days off, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of employment
  • 24 hours of paid volunteer time
  • Appfire University on-demand learning platform
  • Private health insurance through UNIQA, fully paid by the company
  • Fully covered Multisport Card
  • Fully paid Sofia City Transport Card
  • Pre-paid Pluxee lunch card with a monthly budget of 102,26 EURO
  • One-time net Baby Bonus of 511 EURO upon the birth of a child
  • 3 fully paid volunteering days each year through Appfire Town
  • Fully remote within Bulgaria, with the option to work from the Sofia office