Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright)

Location: Portugal — Remote

Company

hirify.global is an experience innovation company that combines data, AI, creativity, and technology to deliver digital transformation for recognized brands.

What you will do

• Design, build, roll out, and maintain Playwright automation frameworks using TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Test APIs and microservice-based systems alongside responsive web interfaces.
• Run BDD collaboratively with analysts, developers, and clients.
• Diagnose flaky and intermittent failures by identifying root causes rather than adding retries.
• Use and help define AI-assisted and agent-driven testing practices, including prompts, instruction files, and review gates.
• Coach colleagues, contribute to the QA community, and explain quality risks and technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of test automation experience, including 2+ years of hands-on Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript in production.
• Strong command of Playwright fixtures, locator strategy, auto-waiting, network interception and mocking, trace-based debugging, and parallel execution.
• Experience testing responsive and mobile-web behavior with device emulation, viewports, touch, and cross-browser testing.
• Proven experience defining and implementing framework architecture, not only extending an existing framework.
• API automation and microservices testing experience, including HTTP and network inspection tools.
• CI/CD experience with a major pipeline tool.
• Practical BDD experience in an Agile team.
• Working AI-assisted testing practice, including generating tests with AI and identifying tests that pass without proving meaningful behavior.
• Confidence to challenge from a testing perspective and curiosity to become a subject-matter expert quickly.

Nice to have

• Native mobile automation on iOS and/or Android, ideally with Appium and WebdriverIO.
• Experience with another automation stack, such as Selenium-based or non-JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience building or orchestrating multi-step AI agent workflows for test generation, execution, or triage.
• Performance or cloud testing experience.
• Mentoring, conference talks, or blogging experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options, with conditions dependent on the country; this position is based in Portugal.
• Continuous learning, professional development programs, international mobility, and access to industry experts and training.
• Values-driven culture focused on creativity, diversity, autonomy, inclusion, and collaboration.
• Benefits and compensation are tailored to the location and detailed during the hiring process.

Hiring process

• The Talent Acquisition team reviews applications after submission.
• The CV should describe relevant experience and expertise; age, gender, marital status, and a headshot are not required.
• Reasonable interview accommodations can be requested in the application or through the Talent Partner.