QA Automation Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Porto or Sintra, Portugal, or Madrid or Vigo, Spain; 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.

Company

hirify.global develops software that simplifies and digitizes the automotive customer journey for manufacturers and dealerships.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across API, UI, integration, regression, and data layers.
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into test cases and automated scenarios, and convert high-risk manual regression coverage into automation.
• Extend shared automation frameworks with reusable components, utilities, fixtures, and test data builders.
• Use LLMs, GitHub Copilot, and similar tools for test design, test data, automation scripts, self-healing locators, specification-based generation, and failure triage.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and cloud deployments on AWS and Azure; maintain quality gates, reporting, dashboards, and QA metrics.
• Collaborate with developers, Product Owners, DevOps, and QA teams on shift-left quality, incident investigation, testability, and automation standards.

Requirements

• 4+ years of QA or software testing experience, including at least 3 years developing production test automation.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java, with the ability to read and understand the others.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST-assured, or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Solid API testing experience covering REST APIs, JSON payloads, authentication, contract testing, and schema validation.
• Ability to perform manual end-to-end and integration testing when automation is not feasible or implemented.
• Experience integrating and executing automated tests in CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Practical experience using AI-powered tools for test design, test data creation, and test automation development.
• Strong knowledge of Git, code review processes, and clean code principles for test automation.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and communicating quality risks with evidence and data.

Nice to have

• AWS, cloud-native testing, Docker, and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Self-healing test frameworks, AI-based test generation, and test analytics platforms.
• Performance and load testing with k6, JMeter, or Gatling; database and data testing with SQL.
• Security testing experience with OWASP ZAP or similar tools.
• Incident management experience including triage, production defect reproduction, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and regression test creation.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS, automotive software, ERP, integration-heavy products, or legacy application modernization.
• French or Spanish language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid rotational model with 2 onsite days and 3 remote days.
• 14 annual payments: 12 monthly payments, a summer bonus, and a Christmas bonus in November.
• €10.20 meal voucher per working day and 23 vacation days, plus 24th or 31st December off.
• Private Multicare medical insurance, language classes in Spanish, English, or French, and team activities.
• Inclusive environment with recruitment-process adjustments available for people with disabilities and equal-opportunity hiring.

Hiring process

• 30-minute introductory call with a Talent Acquisition Specialist.
• Interview with the QA AI Automation Staff Engineer and an Engineering Manager.
• Hands-on automation technical exercise followed by a review session.