QA Automation Engineer (Krakow, Hybrid)
At First Advantage (Nasdaq: FA), people are at the heart of everything we do. From our customers and partners to our greatest advantage — our team members. Operating with empathy and compassion, First Advantage fosters a global inclusive workforce devoted to the diverse voices that make up our talent and products. Our team members empower each other to be their authentic selves and treat all with respect, integrity, and fairness.
Say hello to a rewarding career and come join a leading provider of mission-critical background screening solutions to some of the most recognized Fortune 100 and Global 500 brands.
About The Role:
We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer to help drive quality across our distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will build and maintain automated test suites, strengthen our CI/CD pipelines, and ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and reliable.
This is a hands‑on engineering role within a modern, collaborative team focused on continuous improvement, transparency, and delivering high‑impact products.
What You'll Do:
Manual & Exploratory Testing
- Execute manual test cases for UI, API, and end‑to‑end user workflows.
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and user-impacting defects.
- Document clear, reproducible bug reports and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.
- Validate business requirements and user acceptance criteria through hands‑on testing.
- Develop and maintain automated tests for UI, API, microservices, and integration layers.
- Contribute to scalable, reusable automation frameworks stored in GitHub.
- Create validations for distributed systems, service‑to‑service interactions, queues, and API contracts.
- Work closely with developers and product partners to understand story details and test requirements.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution.
- Support exploratory, UAT, and end‑to‑end testing for user‑focused scenarios.
- Participate in code reviews, GitHub workflows, and team automation practices.
- Engage in team learning sessions and internal quality improvement initiatives.
- Contribute ideas to improve testing approaches and overall product quality.
What You Bring:
Core Skills
- 3–5 years of hands‑on experience in QA automation or test engineering.
- Familiarity with writing test cases, test plans, and defect documentation.
- Understanding of functional testing, regression testing, and user‑flow validation
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript for test automation.
- Understanding of WebdriverIO and/or Playwright.
- Proven ability to automate UI, API, and integration scenarios.
- Familiar with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or similar cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
- Basic understanding of REST APIs and modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM).
- Awareness of CI/CD principles is beneficial.
- Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries.
- Good understanding of modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership‑driven mindset.
- Attention to detail and a passion for delivering quality.
- Curiosity and adaptability with a desire to continually improve testing skills.
- Exposure to SQL basics.
- Awareness of performance or accessibility testing concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) through university or personal projects.
- Understanding of accessibility testing principles (WCAG 2.1 AA).
Why Join Us:
Lead at Scale: Drive automation for platforms powering millions of annual global applicants.
Modern Tech Stack: Cloud‑native, microservices‑based, API‑first platforms with modern tooling.
Growth & Influence: Shape automation strategy across global teams and high-impact ownership
Collaborative Culture: Transparent, open engineering culture with shared ownership.
Great Work Environment: A modern office in central Kraków, flexible hybrid work options, and a competitive benefits package.
What Are You Waiting For? Apply Today!
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United States Equal Opportunity Employment:
First Advantage is proud to be a global leader in removing barriers and supporting our community members to ensure the changing demographics of the workforce are reflected in our hiring and employment practices. We value all of our candidates, employees, and clients, and place great emphasis on hiring and supporting qualified individuals in each role. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other area protected by applicable law.