Senior QA Engineer (SaaS)

Location: Hybrid in Berlin or Munich, or remote from EMEA with good overlap with the product and engineering team's core hours

Company

hirify.global is a growing SaaS startup building a crew-logistics platform at the intersection of global shipping and travel, supporting crew changes across hundreds of vessels.

What you will do

• Design and build a scalable, reusable end-to-end test automation framework with Playwright and TypeScript.
• Automate critical user journeys across flight search, travel operations, and tenant integrations.
• Own a fast, stable, and trusted regression suite and define risk-based CI quality thresholds with platform engineering.
• Triage and prioritize customer-impacting defects, run release gates, validate feature flags, and confirm rollback readiness.
• Perform root cause analysis, identify defect hotspots, and use incident, defect-rate, and QA-feedback data to drive recurring fixes.
• Embed QA across the product lifecycle through requirements reviews, test strategy, documentation, and clear quality guidelines.

Requirements

• Several years of QA engineering experience, including senior-level ownership of test strategy and automation within a product team.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript is essential.
• Experience designing test frameworks that remain scalable and maintainable as products grow.
• Experience with a B2B SaaS product; experience with travel, booking, or travel aggregator products is highly preferred.
• Ability to define test strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers and assign risks appropriately.
• Sound judgment in defect management, bug reporting, release decisions, and root cause analysis.
• Systems mindset, rigorous attention to detail, pragmatism, and strong product sense with familiarity with standard UX patterns.
• Clear communication with engineering, product, design, and customer-facing colleagues, including asking probing questions early.
• Fluent English required. Other languages are a plus.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with a modern web engineering stack.
• Experience or interest in an early-stage or growth-stage startup, ideally as the first QA engineer.
• Experience with travel, booking, or travel aggregator products.
• Knowledge of other languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a global-impact challenge in shipping and travel logistics.
• International, mission-oriented, supportive, and collaborative team.
• Access to leading-edge AI tools for all team members.
• Learning and development support and budget.