QA Automation Engineer

At Air Apps, we believe in thinking bigger-and moving faster. We're a family-founded company on a mission to create the world's first AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner (PRP), and we need your passion and ambition to help us change how people plan, work, and live. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2018-and now with offices in both Lisbon and San Francisco-we've remained self-funded while reaching over 100 million downloads worldwide.

As a QA Automation Engineer at Air Apps, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining automated test frameworks and regression test suites to ensure our applications meet the highest quality standards. You will work closely with developers, product managers, and QA teams to implement automated testing strategies, increase test coverage, and optimize testing efficiency.

Your contributions will directly impact the stability, performance, and reliability of our applications across web and mobile platforms.

- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for web and mobile applications.

- Create and execute automated regression, functional, performance, and API tests .

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.

- Collaborate with development teams to ensure testability of features and early defect detection.

- Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and report issues to development teams.

- Enhance test coverage by identifying critical scenarios and edge cases.

- Work with cross-functional teams to define quality standards and best practices.

- Stay up to date with emerging automation tools, frameworks, and testing methodologies .

- Around 3+ years of experience in test automation development .

- Proficiency in test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Playwright).

- Strong experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript .

- Hands-on experience with API testing (Postman, REST Assured, or similar).

- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI).

- Experience with version control systems (Git) and test management tools (TestRail, Zephyr).

- Strong understanding of software testing principles, SDLC, and agile methodologies .

- Knowledge of performance and load testing tools (JMeter, Gatling) is a plus.

- Experience testing mobile applications (iOS & Android) is a plus.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.