Senior QA Engineer with Automation Porto

Overview

Beyond is a technology consultancy helping organizations thrive in a rapidly changing world.

We build, modernize, scale, and operationalize technology, creating Cloud and AI solutions to unlock productivity and drive customer growth.

Role Overview

With a focus on creating innovative tech and delivering impactful experiences, we are dedicated to the seamless art of software design and delivery and are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to join our dynamic and diverse engineering team. We know the importance of QA within the development lifecycle and seek individuals who are excited about the role and ready to take an active part in the delivery of transformative products and experiences.

Responsibilities

• Work with a variety of clients across different verticals and sectors as part of a Beyond project team
• Co-create and collaborate with different team members from across the project, programme and agency to ensure quality is embedded at both the process and programme level
• Enhance and further develop your QA skills by learning new test tools, methods and practices in alignment with project recommendations and requirements
• Gain knowledge in new business domains to help teams analyse, test, build and deliver quality software

Qualifications

• Strong skills in automation using Playwright, Cypress, Pytest, Pact (contract testing), Karate (API), and k6 (performance)
• Preferred experience building automated
  -
  - end test suites from scratch for native and hybrid i
  OS/Android apps using Appium 2, Detox (React Native), Espresso; plus experience with device farms (Browser
  Stack/Sauce Labs) and CI integration (Git
  Hub Actions/Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Experience in manual testing on mobile and tablet devices and virtual devices with Browser
  Stack
• Strong manual
  - browser UI testing experience with deep CMS proficiency (Contentful, Word
  Press, Webflow): comfortable with content models, roles/permissions, authoring workflows, localisation, preview/publishing, and
  - page SEO metadata
• Experience with AI-assisted testing (test generation/maintenance)
• Experience with accessibility testing (axe, Playwright/Lighthouse a11y checks) and performance monitoring (Lighthouse CI/Web
  Page
  Test), adhering to WCAG 2. 2
• Security basics (OWASP; auth flows—OAuth2), data privacy in tests
• Ability to create a full suite of QA
  - standard documentation throughout the project lifecycle
• Practical,
  - on experience in QA practices, such as
  - driven development (BDD) and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience of prior UX and Web testing to facilitate Three Amigos sessions from a QA perspective
• Extensive web API testing experience, manual and automation testing using Postman or Insomnia, plus
  - first frameworks (REST Assured, Karate, Pytest + HTTPX/Requests) with contract testing (Pact), auth (OAuth/JWT), and CI integration
• Experience managing and prioritising multiple activities, across multiple projects, while ensuring output quality
• Clear, professional communication with
  - functional teams and clients
• Experience with Jira, Asana or a similar project management/bug tracking tool
• Exposure to Figma, Slack & Storybook with a keen focus on UX and design fidelity and accessibility

Benefits

• A team of passionate people who genuinely care about what they do and the standard of work they produce
• Whilst we’re remote first, we have two hubs in Portugal: Lisbon and Porto
• 25 days’ annual leave, Juneteenth, your birthday off, and a paid office closure between Christmas and New Year's
• Health insurance
• 15 days of paid sickness and wellness days
• A generous learning and development budget and an annual leadership development programme
• A strong company culture that includes weekly meetings, company updates, team socials, and celebrations
• In-house DE&I council and mental health
  - aiders

Having been named among the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies, we believe culture plays a large role in what we offer as an organization. We actively promote diversity in all its forms across our Studios, and we proudly, passionately, and proactively strive to create a culture of inclusivity and openness for all our employees.

Beyond is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about people. And without our people being their most creative and innovative selves, we are nothing.