Senior Quality Engineer (AI-Driven Testing & Quality)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid work in one of hirify.global's offices is required, and candidates must be based in Portugal.

Company

hirify.global develops software solutions and builds engineering teams across Agile delivery environments.

What you will do

• Audit test coverage, tooling, processes, and risk, then define a staged automation architecture with proofs of concept and cost-aware tooling recommendations.
• Build UI, API, database, regression, and contract test coverage using Selenium, Playwright, BrowserStack, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#.
• Close testability gaps with engineering, integrate suites into CI/CD quality gates, and run performance, load, asynchronous, and queue-based testing.
• Validate SQL and NoSQL data, migrations, parity, behavioral equivalence, security findings, and remediation.
• Maintain portable test infrastructure and test data management, including containerized runners, self-hosted grids, masking, synthetic data, and controlled access.
• Use AI tools for test generation, maintenance, log analysis, and defect clustering; lead Agile QE activities, mentor engineers, and produce dashboards and executive go/no-go release reports.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of software quality engineering experience, including ownership of test strategy across more than one layer: UI, API, or data.
• Experience building or substantially rebuilding automation where little previously existed.
• Hands-on automation with Selenium or Playwright and API test automation.
• Python automation experience; strong JavaScript/TypeScript or C# experience is acceptable with willingness to work in Python.
• Comfort with SQL and validating data at rest rather than only through the UI.
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines and routine use of AI coding and testing tools, with clear judgment about their benefits and limitations.
• Evidence of getting tooling recommendations adopted by stakeholders who did not report to you, plus clear communication with non-technical stakeholders and defensible release recommendations.
• Fluent written and spoken English is mandatory.
• Availability to work in a hybrid model in one of hirify.global's offices and be based in Portugal.

Nice to have

• Blocking CI/CD quality gates, performance and load testing with JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar.
• Self-hosted test infrastructure, containerized runners, self-managed grids, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Contract testing with Pact or similar and event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.
• Data migration testing, test data management at scale, masking, synthetic generation, and regulated personal data experience.
• Go, observability data including logs, metrics, and traces, and telco experience across BSS/OSS, provisioning, billing, or network data.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as a QE lead embedded in Agile squads alongside development teams.
• Coordinate onshore and offshore QE contributors and mentor through pair testing and review.
• Equal employment opportunity regardless of gender, identity, orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, or other protected factors.
• hirify.global does not accept unsolicited resumes or pay third-party agencies without a signed agreement.

Hiring process

• Do not submit resumes or CVs directly; third-party agencies must have a signed agreement with hirify.global.
• Applying authorizes hirify.global Group to use candidate data for as long as necessary, including regular data-cleansing and updating exercises.