Senior Quality Assurance Specialist – Automation
Who we are:
We are a full-service agency and content studio dedicated to helping companies grow through strategy, creativity, technology services, and human talent. We combine innovative thinking, digital production, and specialized talent to deliver high-impact solutions for regional and international clients.
At Boombit, we work with multidisciplinary teams across Latin America, supporting digital products, creative technology, content operations, and staff augmentation solutions for companies that need agile, reliable, and scalable execution.
Job purpose:
We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist - Automation, to help ensure the delivery of high-quality digital experiences across web platforms, applications, and digital products.
This role combines traditional quality assurance responsibilities with modern automation practices. The ideal candidate will contribute to test strategy, quality processes, automation frameworks, risk identification, release readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives while collaborating closely with developers, designers, project managers, product owners, and technical stakeholders.
The Senior Quality Assurance Specialist - Automation serves as a quality advocate throughout the software development lifecycle, helping teams deliver reliable, accessible, secure, and scalable digital experiences while reducing manual effort through effective test automation.
Job details:
- Location:100% Remote. Open to candidates based in Costa Rica,Mexico, or Colombia.
- Schedule: Monday to Friday, aligned with business operating hours
- Job Type: Temporary contract, full-time engagement, approximately 4 to 5 months.
- Language Proficiency: Spanish native or fluent, English C1+ for reading, writing, and conversation
- Availability:
- Near-future opportunity with an estimated start date of September 1st. This is not an immediate assignment.
Key Responsibilities & Duties:
- Analyze project requirements, acceptance criteria, and design specifications to ensure quality standards are met.
- Create and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, test data, and QA documentation.
- Execute and coordinate functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing activities.
- Monitor project quality against business requirements and design specifications.
- Identify, document, communicate, and help mitigate quality risks throughout project lifecycles.
- Create defect tickets, track issues to resolution, and validate fixes.
- Communicate test results, issues, risks, and recommendations to project teams and stakeholders.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, release planning, and retrospective sessions.
- Ensure production issues are analyzed and converted into preventive testing scenarios when applicable.
- Develop and execute automated end-to-end, regression, functional, and integration test suites using Playwright and related automation tools.
- Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive manual testing through automation.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar deployment workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve application testability and automation coverage.
- Support cross-browser and cross-device testing initiatives using BrowserStack or equivalent platforms.
- Contribute to automation best practices, framework improvements, and continuous quality engineering initiatives.
- Provide visibility into product quality, release readiness, testing progress, and risk areas.
- Create QA reports, dashboards, metrics, and quality summaries for stakeholders.
- Work closely with Developers, Designers, Product Owners, Project Managers, and QA team members to ensure successful project delivery.
- Support onboarding and mentoring of QA team members when needed.
- Continuously improve QA methodologies, testing standards, and automation practices.
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