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**THE ROLE**:
You will be a **key player and quality advocate**, comfortable working across a balance of **manual and automation testing**, ensuring that no aspect of quality is overlooked. At the same time, you will be expected to leverage **AI-powered QA tools** to accelerate automation, increase coverage, and enhance efficiency across projects. Your role will be both technical and strategic, bridging teams and aligning quality with both immediate project needs and long-term client goals.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:

- ** Test Strategy and Leadership**: Define and evolve test strategies from the earliest phases of development, ensuring alignment with business goals. Provide guidance on test planning, coverage, and automation strategy to maximize efficiency and quality.
- ** Quality Engineering & Automation**: Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Playwright) that scale across projects. Ensure automation is integrated into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster, more reliable releases.
- ** Shift-Left and Early Collaboration**: Collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and developers during early stages to prevent defects, align on requirements, and bring a quality-first mindset into planning and design.
- ** Execution and Defect Management**: Lead execution of automated and manual testing, oversee defect lifecycle management, and ensure timely resolution of issues while mentoring team members on best practices.
- ** API Testing**: Perform thorough manual and automated API testing, leveraging frameworks such as **Cypress** and **Playwright**,



ensuring robustness, reliability, and proper integration across services.
- ** Accessibility Testing**: Validate compliance with **WCAG 2.2 AA standards** through both manual and automated methods, ensuring inclusive and accessible digital experiences.
- ** Performance and Scalability Testing**: Drive performance and load testing initiatives, analyzing results and recommending improvements to ensure systems meet scalability and reliability expectations.
- ** CMS and Content Validation**: Test digital solutions built on CMS platforms such as **Contentful, ContentStack, or similar**, validating dynamic content delivery and integration.
- ** Design Review and Usability Validation**: Collaborate with designers by reviewing and validating deliverables in **Figma**, ensuring design intent is met and edge cases are considered.
- ** Innovation and Continuous Improvement**: Actively explore and implement **AI-driven testing tools** and modern QA practices. Identify opportunities to optimize processes, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery.
- ** Component-Level Quality**: (Nice-to-have) Experience testing or developing UI components using **Atomic Design principles** and tools like **Storybook**, ensuring modularity and consistency across projects.
- ** Metrics, Reporting, and Risk Management**: Provide clear visibility of quality through KPIs and dashboards. Communicate risks, dependencies,



and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
- ** Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing**: Coach junior and intermediate QAs, fostering growth and building a strong QA culture across teams. Lead QA ceremonies and advocate for QA practices within Agile processes.
- ** Consultative Client Engagement**: Act as a quality consultant for clients, aligning QA activities with their long-term business objectives and helping shape digital solutions that scale.

**WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR**:

- Fluent English (written and spoken).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or equivalent.
- ** 7+ years of QA experience**, with at least **3+ years focused on automation** at scale.
- Strong expertise in **JavaScript/TypeScript** and automation frameworks such as **Cypress** and **Playwright**.
- Proven ability to design, maintain, and scale **test automation frameworks** and integrate them into **CI/CD pipelines**.
- Solid understanding of **software QA methodologies, Agile/Scrum principles, and shift-left practices**.
- Hands-on experience in **manual and automated API testing** with Cypress or Playwright.
- Knowledge and hands-on validation of **accessibility testing aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA standards** (manual and automated).
- Experience in **performance and load testing**, with the ability to analyze bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
- Familiarity with **CMS platforms** such as Contentful, ContentStack, or similar.
- Ability to review and validate designs in **Figma**, ensuring alignment between design intent and implementation.
- (Nice-to-have) Experience with **Atomic Design principles** and component-driven testing/development in **Storybook**.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving

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📌 Sr QA Automation Engineer (Santiago)
🏢 Apply Digital
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