QA Engineer

Role Description

About the company: Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience. Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period, we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organisations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill.

Main Requirements

About The role: You will be:

- Devising test strategies that cater for functional and non-functional requirements, assessing risk and impact of changes.

- Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts for API and web applications.

- Working with product owner and developers to review project documentation such as functional requirements, technical specifications, and input from a testability perspective.

- Managing and performing testing, recording results, and ,where appropriate, carrying out initial root cause investigation.

- Taking responsibility for ensuring that applications fulfil the business requirements.

- Defect tracking and management, working with development teams to identify root cause and resolve issues, working with the business during UAT defect resolution.

- Inputting into the release process on the quality and readiness of software.

- Responsible for regression testing strategy.

- Participating in cross-functional process improvement initiatives.

Measurements of success in this role:

- Ensuring production deployments meet quality standards with minimal issues.

- Increased automation coverage across API and web application tests.

- Timely and accurate execution of test plans aligned with project timelines.

- Continuous improvement of testing processes and frameworks, contributing to efficiency gains.

The kind of person you are:

- 4+ years' commercial experience in a testing role, with exposure to all aspects of the QA testing (unit, integration, system, regression, load and performance testing).

- Working experience in implementing automated testing frameworks for API or web applications (eg: Cypress, Playwright).

- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.

- Experience with technologies such as AWS, NoSQL Databases MongoDB, JavaScript, Typescript, GitHub, API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI), performance testing tools (jMeter, K6), BrowserStack.

- Excellent communication, problem-solving skills, logical thinking and attention to detail.

- Fluency in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have

Skills to impress (plus)

- Test first mentality (TDD, BDD).

- Any contributions to Open Source projects.

- Experience in Airlines and Airports Industry, Air Travel Industry.

- Managing test environments.

- BSc Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems or similar.

- ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.

- Experience testing chatbot flows.

- Experience with LLM prompt design or generative AI tools.