Sr. QA Engineer

Autumn is a Shopify-focused commerce and technology company helping leading brands build, scale, and optimize their digital experiences. We work at the intersection of engineering, commerce, and innovation, delivering high-quality solutions for global and enterprise brands.

About the Role: We are looking for an experienced Sr. QA Engineer or QA Lead who can take ownership of quality across our products and projects. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in both manual and automation testing, with solid expertise in Playwright, along with proven experience leading and mentoring a team of QA Test Engineers.

This role is suited for someone who can balance hands-on testing, automation, team leadership, and overall QA ownership.

What You'll Do

• Mentor a team of QA Test Engineers, ensuring effective planning and execution of testing activities.
• Own the overall QA strategy, processes, and quality standards across projects.
• Plan and execute manual testing including functional, regression, smoke, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation test suites.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage and increase automation across projects.
• Review test cases, automation scripts, defect reports, and QA processes to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Work closely with Developers, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Ensure defects are properly identified, documented, tracked, and followed through to closure.
• Define and track QA metrics, test coverage, defect trends, and overall product quality.
• Identify risks and quality gaps early and proactively communicate them to stakeholders.
• Establish and continuously improve QA processes, frameworks, and best practices.
• Support the team in troubleshooting complex testing and automation challenges.
• Ensure releases meet defined quality and production-readiness standards.

What We're Looking For

• 4-5 years of experience in Software Testing / QA.
• Proven experience managing a team of QA Test Engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience in Manual Testing and Automation Testing.
• Strong experience with test automation using Playwright.
• Good understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing.
• Experience in writing effective test cases, test scenarios, and test plans.
• Strong understanding of defect lifecycle and bug tracking.
• Experience testing web applications and end-to-end user journeys.
• Good understanding of API testing and tools such as Postman.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to mentor, guide, and build a strong QA team.

Good to Have

• Experience building or improving automation frameworks using Playwright.
• Experience with Page Object Model (POM) and reusable automation frameworks.
• Experience with cross-browser and responsive testing.
• Exposure to performance, security, or other non-functional testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, ClickUp, or similar project/defect management platforms.**

What You'll Bring
We're looking for someone who doesn't see QA as just finding bugs at the end of development. You should be someone who can build a strong QA culture, improve processes, guide the team, increase automation, and work closely with development and project teams to ensure quality is built from the start.