Senior Test Engineer

For our client, a leading telecommunications provider in Austria, Qualysoft is seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to test and automate business-critical web and API-driven applications, with a strong focus on Playwright.

Location

Vienna

Start

ASAP

Duration

12 months

Capacity

100%

Working model

Hybrid, 1-2 days per month on site in Vienna

Project language

English

Your Responsibilities

• As a key contributor to an Agile delivery team, you will safeguard product quality through structured testing and robust test automation.
• Test user stories and sprint deliveries against acceptance criteria
• Design, implement and maintain automated UI and API tests with Playwright and TypeScript
• Keep the automation framework scalable, readable and stable, and fix flaky tests at the root cause
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and act on the results

Perform functional, exploratory, integration and regression testing

• Validate end-to-end business and customer journeys across multiple systems
• Take part in backlog refinement and sprint planning, raising risks and testability questions early

Report, analyze and track defects through resolution

Contribute to improving QA practices, automation coverage and team quality standards

Your Profile

• 4+ years of hands-on QA experience testing frontend, backend and API-driven applications within Agile delivery teams
• Strong understanding of QA processes, test design techniques, defect management and risk-based testing
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, including building or maintaining a test framework

Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins

Experience testing web applications and APIs, including test automation

Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Daily use of AI tools in your testing work

Familiarity with TestRail or similar test management tools

• Ownership: you take responsibility for quality outcomes and follow issues through to the end
• Self-organized: you plan your own sprint work and balance testing with automation without being chased
• User-journey focus: you visualize how real customers use the product and test accordingly

Core Technologies

Playwright, TypeScript

UI and API test automation

CI/CD: Jenkins

Test management: TestRail (or similar)

AI tools for testing

Nice to Have

Background in the telecommunications industry

ISTQB certification