Functional QA Engineer

✦ About us:

Holafly is a fast-growing start-up that is changing how travelers connect to the internet abroad. Since 2018, we’ve been providing peace of mind to travelers around more than 200 worldwide destinations. We are a young and international team of over 500 people based all around the world working to provide stress- free experiences for all travelers. 

✦ Job Description:

We are looking for a Quality Tester with solid experience in e-commerce products focused on functional testing, non-functional testing, and test automation techniques. The ideal candidate will have knowledge in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), API testing, performance testing, and the ability to work in various environments such as QA and Staging. With a focus on full test cycle, task traceability and reporting based on key metrics and be able to identify quality risks during refinement, planning and development of new features.

✦ Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and execute test plans and test cases, ensuring full coverage of product functionalities.
• Actively participate in product refinement and planning phases, identifying potential performance, functional and non-functional quality issues in early stages.
• Collaborate with development and product teams to estimate timelines and workloads, maintaining a proactive approach to test planning.
• Work maintaining a focus on agile methodologies, bringing structure and Quality vision to the team.
• Execute functional tests in different test environments, correctly validating key functionalities.
• Perform API testing using tools such as Postman and Cypress, ensuring proper integration with external systems.
• CI/CD knowledge at a practical level: Ability to collaborate in defining what types of tests (manual and automated) should be executed in the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that releases meet quality criteria before being promoted to production environments. Involvement in the execution and monitoring of tests in the different stages of the pipeline to ensure system stability.
• Work together with other Quality areas for the development of automated tests, ensuring that test cases and automation scripts cover both regressions and new features.
• Request and define technical requirements to ensure proper test automation on new features, working hand in hand with developers.
• Monitor and analyze console logs and network traffic (backend and frontend) to identify and resolve potential bugs.
• Validate payment methods and platforms (PayPal, Stripe, etc.) to ensure they work correctly on different devices and platforms.
• Perform performance testing to ensure that the application and key components maintain optimal performance under different loads and conditions.
• Report and manage bugs using bug management tools such as Jira, ensuring proper traceability and resolution.
• Generate detailed test reports for each release, and ensure compliance with key metrics in each development cycle and on a monthly basis.

✦ Requirements:

• Proven experience as QA in products such as e-commerce, with ability to identify performance, functional and non-functional quality issues in early stages of development.
• Knowledge in agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in testing such as smoke, regression, UAT and non-functional focused on microservices.
• Ability to design automated test cases and request technical requirements needed to automate new features.
• Programming skills (JavaScript, Python, etc.) to create and modify automation scripts.
• CI/CD skills: Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines, assisting in test setup and execution (manual and automated) and ensuring releases meet quality criteria prior to deployment to production.
• Ability to negotiate timelines and estimate workload with technical teams.
• Experience with HTTPS protocols and console management to identify backend and frontend issues.
• Experience testing payment methods and payment platforms (Stripe, PayPal, etc.).
• Familiarity with testing best practices in environments such as QA, Staging and Production.
• Ability to design, execute and document test plans, ensure traceability of tasks and generate quality reports.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams, including developers and product managers.

✦ Benefits:

• Education Bonus
• Performance Bonus
• Remote Job