About Smart Working
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About the role
Champion quality across every layer of the stack.
At Smart Working, we re looking for a Quality Engineer who will embed quality into everything we build from APIs to databases to UI automation. This is a hands-on role where you ll partner with programmers, advocate for the user, and drive a quality-first mindset across the team. If you think like an engineer, not just a tester, this role is for you.
What you will be doing
- Embed quality practices across the team, ensuring quality is owned, discussed, and baked into every stage of delivery
- Automate and integrate testing at the API, database, and UI levels (Cypress)
- Pair with developers on coding and testing, advocating for shift-left and shift-right approaches
- Think like a user exploring edge cases, anticipating risks, and representing the customer perspective
- Contribute to continuous improvement, driving an automation-first approach and eliminating repetitive manual work
Responsibilities
- Ensure quality is built in at every stage of delivery by embedding automation, pairing with programmers, and representing the user to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
Requirements (Required)
- 4+ years of professional experience in Quality Engineering or a similar role
- 3+ years of experience in API testing, with proven ability to design, implement, and maintain automated service-level test suites
- 3+ years of experience in UI automation with Cypress, building reliable, maintainable, and scalable automation frameworks
- Strong database and SQL skills, comfortable validating data flows and integrating database checks into test pipelines
- Clear and confident communicator, able to share findings, coach teammates, and represent quality across the team
- Proactive, collaborative mindset, skilled at glue work, pairing with programmers, and embedding quality practices throughout the lifecycle
- Exploratory testing ability, applied as a core baseline skill for all quality engineers
Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and a DevOps mindset
What you will learn
- You ll deepen your expertise in full-stack quality engineering, working across APIs, databases, and UIs while collaborating with a global engineering team. Expect to grow your coaching skills, drive continuous improvement, and help define what quality means in a remote-first, fast-moving environment.
At Smart Working, you ll never be just another remote hire.
Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.
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