Pearltalent·about 1 month ago
Department: Technical
Work Arrangement: Remote
Job Type: Independent Contractor, Full Time
Work Schedule: US Time Zone (candidate expected to be flexible with the client's preference)
Locations: Philippines, LATAM, and other remote regions with excellent English communication skills
Pearl works with the top 1% of candidates from around the world and connects them with the best startups in the US and EU. Our clients have raised over $5B in aggregate and are backed by companies like OpenAI, a16z, and Founders Fund. They're looking for the sharpest, hungriest candidates who they can consistently promote and work with over many years. Candidates we've hired have been flown out to the US and EU to work with their clients, and even promoted to roles that match folks onshore in the US.
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At Pearl, we're not just another recruiting firm—we connect you with exceptional opportunities to work alongside visionary US and EU founders. Our focus is on placing you in roles where you can grow, be challenged, and build long-term, meaningful careers.
The QA Automation Engineer ensures that every product release is reliable, scalable, and user-friendly by designing, implementing, and maintaining comprehensive test automation frameworks. This role goes beyond writing test scripts—you'll architect quality assurance systems that integrate seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, leverage AI tools to optimize testing processes, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain product excellence. Working across diverse technology stacks including web, mobile, API, and database layers, you'll apply both analytical problem-solving and creative thinking to identify real-world edge cases from a user's perspective. You'll build automated testing solutions that catch bugs early, reduce manual testing burden, and enable faster, more confident product releases.
Your automation expertise will directly improve product quality, development velocity, and customer satisfaction by catching defects before they reach production. By building robust test frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, you'll enable development teams to ship features faster with confidence. Your work will reduce manual testing time by significant percentages, freeing QA teams to focus on exploratory testing and complex scenarios. Through AI-driven testing optimization, you'll accelerate testing cycles and improve coverage. Your collaboration with developers will improve code quality by identifying architectural issues early and suggesting improvements. By thinking from both technical and user perspectives, you'll ensure products not only function correctly but deliver excellent user experiences.
Test Automation Development & Framework Design (50%)
CI/CD Integration & DevOps Collaboration (20%)
AI-Driven Testing & Quality Optimization (15%)
Bug Tracking, Collaboration & Quality Improvement (10%)
Documentation, Reporting & Continuous Improvement (5%)