Senior QA Engineer; Backend

About Airalo

Alo! Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store that helps people connect in over 200+ countries and regions across the globe. We are building the next digital service that revolutionizes the telecom industry. We are a travel-tech company and an equal-opportunity environment that values and executes diversity, inclusion, and equity. Our team is spread across 50+ countries and six continents. What glues us together is our commitment to changing the way you connect.

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We hope that you care deeply about the quality of your work, the intrinsic worth of tasks, and the success of your team. You are self-disciplined and do not require micromanagement in terms of your skillset and work ethic. You do your best to flourish as an individual every day while working hard to foster a collaborative team environment. You believe in the importance of being — and staying — authentic, honest, positive, and kind.

You are a good interlocutor with clear and concise communication. You are able to manage multiple projects, have an analytical mind, pay keen attention to detail, and love to get your hands dirty. You are cognizant, tolerant, and welcoming of vulnerabilities and cultural differences.

Position
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Full-time / Employee

Location
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Remote-first

Benefits
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Health Insurance, work-from-anywhere stipend, annual wellness & learning credits, annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits

We are looking for an experienced and responsible Senior QA Automation Engineer with a strong technical background in backend and API testing. In this role, you will design, implement, and scale our automation strategy and frameworks, ensuring they are a robust and seamless part of our CI/CD pipeline.

You will be a key member of our QA team, maximizing product quality by focusing primarily on the automation of our APIs and backend services. While your core focus will be on the underlying systems that power our User Experience and Network business units, you will also ensure these backend tests integrate effectively with our Web and Mobile applications to minimize regression risks across the entire stack.

• Designing, implementing, and executing manual and automated functional, regression and performance tests
• Designing and implementing testing strategy for the Backend API Platform
• Testing mobile network connectivity by interacting with mobile devices
• Running Functional and End-to-End tests and making sure the functionalities are in conformance with the user stories, acceptance criteria and design documents
• Ensuring version releases with 0 critical bugs
• Looking for ways to increase automation ratio as much as possible while performing manual tests for the scenarios that are not automated yet
• Collaborating and working closely with Product Managers, Developers, Designers to share bug reports, ensure business requirements are met, and increase code and automated test coverages
• Tracking and measuring quality metrics to take any necessary corrective actions proactively for one thing: the best quality can be achieved
• Evaluating, building, and improving the roadmap and infrastructure of the overall QA strategy and testing cycle for the end-products, making recommendations as necessary
• Helping to build and grow a strong and dedicated QA Guild

• 5+ years of dedicated experience in Quality Assurance (QA)
• Deep understanding of software testing theory, methodologies, and best practices
• Experience in manual testing across the full range of user story acceptance criteria and test cases
• Expertise in automated functional, API, and UI testing
• Ability to provide realistic estimations for tasks of varying types and sizes
• Solid understanding of HTTP protocol & Web Socket communication
• Understanding of distributed applications and client-server architectures
• Proficient in at least one programming language (Type Script, Java, Python, or similar)
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright, Axios, Cucumber, Cypress, Selenium, Rest Assured, or similar)
• Experience…