Quality Assurance Engineer – Manual & Automation Testing | SaaS | Remote
Position Type: Full-Time, Remote
Working Hours: U.S. Client Business Hours — flexibility required for releases, sprint deadlines, and testing windows
About the Role
At Pavago, one of our clients is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer (QA Tester) to ensure software applications are thoroughly tested, reliable, and production-ready before release.
This role combines manual testing, test automation, regression testing, API and performance testing, defect management, and release validation. You’ll work closely with engineering and product teams throughout the software development lifecycle to identify issues early and prevent critical defects from reaching users.
You’ll own quality across new features, integrations, bug fixes, and releases while helping improve testing processes and automation coverage over time.
If you naturally look for edge cases, care deeply about software quality, and enjoy preventing problems before they reach production, this role is a strong fit.
What You’ll Own
Test Planning & Coverage
- Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria
- Review requirements and user stories with product managers and developers
- Define appropriate test coverage across:
- New features
- Integrations
- Regression scenarios
- User workflows
- Translate product requirements into structured testing scenarios
- Identify potential risks and edge cases early in the development lifecycle
- Ensure critical workflows receive sufficient testing before release
Manual & Regression Testing
- Execute:
- Functional testing
- Regression testing
- UI/UX testing
- Cross-browser testing
- Cross-device testing
- Validate new features and bug fixes before production release
- Identify unexpected behaviors, functional issues, and usability problems
- Log defects using:
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Similar bug-tracking platforms
- Write clear bug reports including:
- Reproduction steps
- Expected behavior
- Actual results
- Supporting evidence
- Retest fixes and verify impacted functionality
- Run regression testing before major releases
Automation Testing
- Build and maintain automated test suites using:
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Identify high-value and repeatable test cases for automation
- Improve automation coverage over time
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using:
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Monitor automated test runs
- Investigate and troubleshoot failed automated tests
- Improve the reliability and maintainability of automated test suites
API, Performance & Security Testing
- Conduct load and stress testing using tools such as:
- Test APIs using:
- Validate API responses, integrations, and expected behaviors
- Identify performance bottlenecks and reliability issues
- Support vulnerability testing and remediation efforts where required
- Help ensure applications meet expected performance and security standards
Defect Management & Release Validation
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution
- Collaborate with developers to reproduce and isolate issues
- Retest resolved defects before closure
- Assess the impact of fixes on related functionality
- Highlight unresolved issues and release risks before deployment
- Support final release validation to ensure critical workflows are production-ready
Documentation & Quality Reporting
- Maintain accurate:
- Test plans
- Test cases
- Test results
- Defect documentation
- Track quality metrics including:
- Defect density
- Test coverage
- Pass/fail rates
- Regression results
- Prepare clear quality reports for engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders
- Maintain visibility into testing progress and outstanding issues
- Clearly communicate release risks before deployment
Engineering & Product Collaboration
- Work closely with developers to reproduce, isolate, and resolve defects
- Participate in:
- Sprint planning
- Daily standups
- Retrospectives
- Release discussions
- Review requirements for clarity and testability
- Provide feedback on product usability and quality
- Advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle
Requirements
- 2+ years of QA or software testing experience
- Hands-on experience with manual and regression testing
- Experience with test management and bug-tracking tools such as:
- Familiarity with automation frameworks including:
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Strong understanding of:
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Agile methodologies
- Functional testing
- Regression testing
- Ability to create structured test plans and test cases
- Ability to write clear and reproducible defect reports
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent documentation and communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment
- Availability during U.S. client business hours, with flexibility around releases, sprint deadlines, and testing windows
Nice to Have
- Experience testing:
- SaaS applications
- Finance software
- Healthcare software
- Enterprise software
- API testing experience with:
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with:
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Exposure to:
- Performance testing
- Security testing
- Compliance-heavy software environments
- Experience with Apache JMeter or Locust
Tools & Technology
Jira | TestRail | Zephyr | Azure DevOps | Selenium | Cypress | Playwright | Postman | RestAssured | Apache JMeter | Locust | GitHub Actions | Jenkins | GitLab CI
What Makes You a Strong Fit
You’ll likely thrive in this role if you:
- Naturally catch edge cases others may overlook
- Write clear, structured, and reproducible bug reports
- Balance thorough testing with fast development cycles
- Think proactively about risks rather than waiting for problems to appear
- Understand when manual testing versus automation provides the most value
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Are comfortable challenging assumptions when requirements or expected behavior are unclear
- Take ownership of product quality from development through release
- Care about preventing defects rather than simply finding them after the fact
What a Typical Day Looks Like
You may start your day by reviewing new requirements and user stories to identify test scenarios, dependencies, and potential edge cases.
Throughout the day, you could write and update test cases, manually test new features, run regression suites, execute automated tests, test APIs, and document bugs.
You’ll collaborate with developers to reproduce and resolve issues, retest fixes, review results from new builds, and maintain test documentation.
As a release approaches, you’ll help validate critical workflows and communicate outstanding defects or risks to engineering and product stakeholders.
In short: you serve as a critical quality gate before release, helping ensure users receive a stable, reliable, and thoroughly tested product.
Key Metrics for Success
- High defect detection rate before production
- Strong regression test coverage
- Increasing automation coverage
- Fast bug verification and resolution cycles
- Low number of critical production defects
- Reliable automated test execution
- High percentage of releases deployed without severe issues
- Accurate and complete test documentation
- Timely identification of release risks
- Strong stakeholder confidence in product quality
Why This Role Stands Out
- Direct impact on product and release quality
- Hands-on exposure to both manual and automated testing
- Opportunity to work with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD
- Close collaboration with product and engineering teams
- Opportunity to improve testing processes and automation coverage
- Exposure across the complete software development lifecycle
- Fully remote working environment
- Career growth opportunities into:
- Senior QA Engineer
- QA Automation Engineer
- QA Lead
- Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
- Quality Engineering Manager
Interview Process
- Initial Application
- Spark Hire One-Way Video Interview
- Video Interview with Pavago Recruiter
- Practical Assessment — Test Plan or Sample Bug/Test Case Exercise
- Client Interview with QA / Engineering Leadership
- Offer & Background Verification
Spark Hire Video Interview – Required
As part of the application process, all candidates are required to complete a one-way video interview through Spark Hire.
After completing the first step of your application, you’ll receive a Spark Hire invitation by email with instructions to record and submit your video responses.
Completion of the Spark Hire video is required to be considered for the next stage. Please check your inbox as well as your spam or junk folder for the invitation.
Apply Now
If you’re a Quality Assurance Engineer or QA Tester with experience in manual testing, automation, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jira, or API testing and care deeply about preventing defects before they reach production, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help ensure every release delivers the quality, reliability, performance, and user experience customers expect.
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