QA Engineer
Miaplaza
Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand +5 moreremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
QA-EngineeringSoftware-TestingTesting-AutomationQuality-Assurance-EngineerWeb-TestingQA-EngineerQA-Test-EngineerSoftware-QA-EngineerSQA-EngineerSoftware-Quality-Assurance-EngineerQA EngineerTest AutomationManual TestingTypeScriptPlaywrightSeleniumCypressGitJiraSassFulltime
Key highlights
- Salary range: €51,000‑90,000
- Minimum experience: 2+ years as a QA engineer (including Playwright and TypeScript)
- Key benefit: Competitive, negotiable compensation and tailored benefits per contract
- Notable requirement: Upper‑intermediate English (B2+) for written and spoken communication
- Remote role with at least 50% working‑hour overlap with CET
- Career growth: defined ladder toward Senior/Staff QA Engineer or Engineering Management
Role overview
Miaplaza is dedicated to making education engaging and accessible through innovative online learning platforms, developing personalized learning experiences for K‑8 and 9‑12 students. The QA Engineer will join a growing QA team, taking ownership of testing, validation, and release sign‑off, while helping transition legacy manual processes to modern automated testing using Playwright and TypeScript.
Responsibilities
- Write and maintain automated regression tests; review automation merge requests from peers
- Execute manual testing across web UIs (functional, regression, cross‑platform, responsive layouts on mobile/tablet)
- Create and maintain test cases, checklists, and test documentation in TestRail
- File clear, actionable bug reports with reproduction steps; collaborate with developers to triage and resolve
- Own the release testing process to ensure only high‑quality changes ship
- Partner with product managers and designers on requirements review, edge cases, and acceptance criteria
- Contribute to QA process improvements as the team scales from 2 to 4 members
- Coordinate with developers during the bi‑monthly release cadence, run regression suites, and sign off on quality
- Participate in daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, 1:1s with the Engineering Manager, and monthly engineering all‑hands
Requirements
- 2+ years of QA engineering experience, including web UI testing
- 2+ years of experience with Playwright or a similar test automation framework (e.g., Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer)
- 2+ years of experience using TypeScript
- Strong test design skills: comfortable writing and maintaining test cases, checklists, and test documentation
- Familiarity with QA's role in the SDLC and how to collaborate with developers and PMs
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Upper‑intermediate English (B2+) for written and spoken communication
- Strong experience in manual testing and writing manual test cases
Nice to have
- Experience with accessibility testing
- Experience with security testing
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, open to negotiation based on experience
- Remote‑first work model with flexible time‑off and benefits tailored to individual contracts
- Defined career ladder with opportunities to advance to Senior/Staff QA Engineer or Engineering Management
- Full onboarding support, pairing and mentorship for new hires
- Async‑friendly, documentation‑first communication culture
- Small team with direct communication, short decision loops, and minimal bureaucracy
Additional details
- Location: Fully Remote (Global)
- Classification: Full‑time; 40 hours per week
- Pay Range: €51,000‑90,000
- Experience level stated in posting: 2+ years as a QA engineer
- Company vision: elevate online learning by applying successful virtual education approaches to create an accessible and inclusive homeschool curriculum platform
- Platforms: Miacademy, Always Icecream, Clever Dragons, MiaPrep, MiaPrep Online High School
- CEO video: Johannes Ziegler discusses company values and future
- Work hours: Significant overlap with CET (at least 50% of working hours), meetings typically between 16:00‑18:00 CET
- Communication tools: Slack, Jira, GitLab MRs, Notion, Google Workspace, Zoom
- Deployment cadence: Bi‑monthly releases with schedule published in advance; occasional ad‑hoc hotfixes
- Interview process: introductory conversation, technical discussion, practical evaluation, references, background check; accommodations provided if needed
- Application steps: screening call, behavioral interview, two technical interviews
- No recruitment agencies; individuals only
- Originally posted on Himalayas