QA Automation Engineer
kubenine
Job Description
Test Automation & Ownership
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Design, write, and maintain Playwright test suites for web applications
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Build and maintain Maestro E2E flows for the Android/iOS mobile app
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Own test coverage for a feature end-to-end — from spec to CI-ready suite
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Debug flaky tests and distinguish real bugs from environment noise
API & Backend Testing
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Write API-level automated tests against Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Django) services
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Understand service behavior well enough to design meaningful test cases, not just happy paths
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Handle test data setup/teardown, basic SQL verification against Postgres
Quality & Collaboration
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Work closely with product and dev teams to define acceptance criteria and edge cases
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Track and report bugs in Plane with clear, reproducible steps
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Participate in feature planning to shape testability early, not bolt it on later
AI-Assisted Testing
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Use Claude and AI coding assistants daily to speed up test authoring
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Explore automated test suite generation via Claude in Chrome / browser-use
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