Quality Assurance Engineer - English Required (Mexico only)
Description
As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work collaboratively within a Scrum environment to ensure the quality and reliability of our SaaS solutions. You will contribute directly to the assessment of test objectives and the creation of test plans, use a variety of exploratory and automated testing techniques and tools, capture and leverage test and quality metrics, and execute test plans to validate pre-production software. Driven by the goal of preventing issues from reaching production, you will directly contribute to customer success and help drive TradeCentric’s next phase of growth.
Reports to: Quality Assurance Engineering Manager
Hours: ET timezone
Location: Candidate must be located in Mexico
Advanced English, both written and spoken
Requirements
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify system requirements and the goals of planned solutions
- Provide feedback on and contribute to acceptance criteria for user stories
- Create comprehensive test plans and test cases for both initial and regression testing
- Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
- Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using various tools
- Identify and thoroughly document bugs and issues
- Perform revalidation and regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Track quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and open defect counts
- Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies
Who You Are
- A great teammate: confident and passionate, yet humble and empathetic
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field strongly preferred
- 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in QA
- Advanced English, both written and spoken
- A self-starter able to hit the ground running with minimal supervision
- Experience writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing for SaaS platforms
- An avid problem-solver who can simulate production scenarios, replicate issues, and identify edge cases
- Proficient in testing applications and APIs built with PHP 8.x and Vue.js, or similar
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium)
- Hands-on experience with automation scripting (Python) and SQL
- Knowledge of data formats including XML, cXML, and JSON, as well as HTTP/API protocols
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Experience testing in a Scrum and CI/CD environment
- Experience with source code control systems, specifically GitHub
Nice to Have
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
- Experience in B2B, e-commerce, or integration domains and software
Benefits
🚀 Opportunity to work with global brands and disruptive startups.
🏡 Remote work / Home office.
📍 If a hybrid or on-site work arrangement is required, you will be informed from the very first session.
⏳ Work schedule aligned with your assigned team/project.
📅 Monday-to-Friday work schedule.
🎓 Access to courses and certifications.
📡 Virtual team-building events and interest groups.
📢 English classes.
🏆 Opportunities across our different business lines.
Skills
As published by workable · 7 questions · 7 written answers
First name, Last name, Email, Phone, Address, Photo, Education, Experience, Summary, Resume, Cover letter
- How many years of hands-on QA experience do you have, and how much of that time has been focused on test automation? Which tools have you used (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium)?
- Describe an automation framework or test suite you built or significantly contributed to. What language did you use (ideally Python), what did it cover (UI, API, regression), and how was it integrated into a CI/CD pipeline?
- Have you tested APIs and data exchanges using formats such as JSON, XML, or cXML? Briefly describe how you validated requests and responses, and which tools you used (e.g., Postman, scripts, SQL queries).
- Tell us about a critical bug you caught before it reached production. How did you replicate it, how did you document it, and what did you do to prevent similar issues in the future?
- What is your net monthly salary expectation in MXN?
- How would you rate your English (Basic / Intermediate / Advanced / Fluent)? Briefly describe your experience working daily in English with US-based teams
- How would you rate your Spanish (Basic / Intermediate / Advanced / Fluent or Native)?