LATAM Principal QA Automation Engineer

Praxent • International Falls, MN

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal QA Automation Engineer to join our team. This role is crucial for enhancing our team's capacity to deliver assigned stories by the end of each sprint. You will be responsible for providing end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects, ensuring successful delivery within budget and adherence to best practices. This position involves continuous research and experimentation with new tools and frameworks to create more value for client engagements, as well as improving established processes and documentation for all teams regarding quality assurance. You will also communicate expectations, manage escalations, and provide a growth and development structure to team members. Developing testing standards, analyzing testing metrics, and implementing new tools and processes are key aspects of this role. Additionally, you will conduct recruiting interviews, analyze candidates, and assist in optimizing the hiring process. A significant part of the role involves developing detailed testing strategies, including technical planning, subtasking, research, contingency plans, and release criteria, to build confidence with agile teams and client stakeholders. The role is categorized as Remote, with team members potentially living in El Salvador, Mexico, or Colombia. The first step in our hiring process is an introductory conversation with an AI-powered recruiter.

Requirements

• Demonstrable proficiency with desired technologies and tools
• Deep expertise in developing and maintaining end-to-end test frameworks using Selenium or Playwright
• Expertise using Selenium or Playwright with C# and .NET or Java
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD integration of automated tests using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, including parallel execution, test reporting, and environment management
• Experience testing up a test automation framework from scratch
• Additional knowledge and experience in AI assisted development and testing (Claude Code, Cursor, CoPilot etc.)
• 8-11+ years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, leading and executing automated testing for web and mobile applications, and leveraging industry-standard tools to ensure optimal product quality across all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value
• Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact
• Mentorship Experience: Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews.
• Values Alignment: We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality

Nice To Haves

• A technical degree is a plus, but equivalent experience via bootcamps, self-teaching, or professional practice is equally valued.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint
• Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout a portfolio of projects. Reflect and instill the core values to example and leadership.
• Ensure Success: Provide end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects to ensure successful delivery within budget; ensure that best practices and standards are followed by all team members across all projects
• Advance Capabilities: Continuously research and experiment with new tools and frameworks that create more value for client engagements; provide research, development and improvement of the already established processes, best practices, documentation and resources for all teams within the organization in regards to all the aspects of quality assurance
• Give Feedback: Communicate expectations throughout the project team and manage escalations promptly and thoroughly; provide a growth and development structure to team members as well as objectives that align their individual performance and organizational goals.
• Set Standards: Develop standards for testing and reporting, analyze portfolio of testing metrics to advance our capabilities, research and implement new tools and processes.
• Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting; assist with optimizing the process to ensure quality recruiting.
• Eliminate Ambiguity: Develop detailed testing strategies that build confidence with the agile team and client stakeholders, including technical planning, rigorous subtasking, advance research, contingency plans, release criteria, etc.
• Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria, tracking daily progress, limit team’s QA kickback, deliver stories as assigned, find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity.

Benefits

• A stable, full-time role
• Paid time off
• Local holidays
• Country-specific perks
• Work/life balance
• 40-hour work week
• Paid time off and holidays based on your country’s standards
• Country-specific benefits that reflect where you live—often including bonus pay, local protections, and perks that matter to you.
• We cover the cost of ongoing learning (online courses, tech conferences, certifications)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed