Company Overview

We are a fast-growing SaaS company modernizing the school and sports photography industry. Our platform helps studios streamline their workflow—from image management to online sales and order delivery. Backed by new leadership and partnered with SURRENT, we are investing in our engineering team to improve product reliability and scalability through advanced quality assurance practices.

Industry

Photography / SaaS / eCommerce / Technology

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead our transition from a primarily manual QA process to a robust automation-first approach. You will help define and implement end-to-end test strategies, working alongside our current QA engineer (going on maternity leave in November) and collaborating closely with our engineering team.

Our backend is built with Ruby on Rails, and our frontend uses React and some Svelte. You won’t need to code in these technologies, but you should be comfortable designing and running tests against applications built with them.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA automation strategy and execution across our web-based platform.

• Select and implement appropriate automation tools and frameworks.

• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts.

• Work closely with developers and QA teammates to ensure high test coverage.

• Automate regression, functional, and integration tests across the stack.

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.

• Assist with load and performance testing where applicable.

• Collaborate in Agile ceremonies and daily standups.

• Participate in the knowledge transfer period with our current QA engineer.

Qualifications

Required

• 6+ years of QA experience, with a strong focus on automation.

• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.

• Ability to build automated tests from scratch for web applications.

• Experience testing applications built with Ruby on Rails backends and React frontends.

• Familiarity with TestRigor, TestRail, or similar tools for managing test cases.

• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum teams with regular deployment cycles.

• Strong communication skills and fluent English (spoken and written).

• Experience in API testing and integrating automated tests in CI/CD workflows.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Svelte (used in parts of the frontend).

• Familiarity with Jira or other issue-tracking tools.

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS.

• Experience mentoring junior QA engineers or leading small QA teams.

Team Structure

• Work directly with the U.S.-based engineering team and a current QA engineer (before maternity leave).

• Collaborate cross-functionally with frontend and backend developers.

Required Skills

• QA Automation: 6+ years

• Selenium / Cypress / Playwright: 5+ years

• Testing against Ruby on Rails APIs/backends: 2–3 years

• Testing React-based frontends: 2–3 years

• Test Case Management Tools (e.g., TestRigor, TestRail): 2+ years

• API Testing: 2+ years

• CI/CD Integration: 2+ years

Additional Skills

• Svelte: 1+ year (nice to have)

• Jira: 2+ years

• AWS: 1–2 years