Senior General Test Engineer (AI-First, TypeScript/Playwright), JR732

ELEKS Quality Assurance Office is looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer (TypeScript) in Argentina. ABOUT PROJECT The Customer is building a safety network that connects consumers, enterprises, monitoring centers, first responders, and emergency services. This is a platform for transmitting critical data. We are looking for a Senior General Test Engineer to join the AI-first incident management team. Strong ownership, proactive communication, and AI fluency are essential for success in this role. REQUIREMENTS • 5+ years of software testing experience, including both manual and automated testing • Strong experience in API and end-to-end test automation using Playwright and TypeScript • Experience designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks for API/backend testing • Experience leveraging AI across the full SDLC, not limited to end-to-end test automation • Proven experience defining and driving quality strategy across the SDLC • Experience establishing QA processes, testing standards, and test management practices from scratch in a greenfield environment • Experience collaborating with engineers and product stakeholders to define feature specifications, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios • Experience setting up and maintaining mock servers and stubs for external service integrations • Ability to extend automation coverage from backend services to frontend applications • Strong understanding of test architecture, mocking strategies, and test data management • Experience developing and maintaining end-to-end automated tests and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines • Ability to combine AI-assisted testing with exploratory and critical-thinking approaches to identify issues beyond automated coverage • Senior-level quality engineering mindset with ownership of overall product quality, not just test automation • Highly self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working in a greenfield environment with minimal supervision • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Spanish - Advanced • Upper-Intermediate level of English RESPONSIBILITIES • Review, analyse and assess project requirements and specifications as well as product functionality to convert them into quality control process artefacts • Prepare and acquire test data • Develop, execute, refactor and optimize automation scripts • Log and evaluate results and document deviations from the expected results • Use automation scripts administration, monitoring, and management tools • Provide automation test environment setup • Review test artefacts developed by others • Contribute to automation process control definition and improvement • Provide new automation tools or approaches investigation and implementation • Provide test documentation creation • Communicate with a customer • Implement and execute tests at all planned levels, log and evaluate results and document deviations from the expected results • Create, validate, update test documentation (test cases, test plan, etc). • Contribute to general project quality assurance process • Analyse/improve/establish test process on a project • Analyse coverage for project test basis • Define relevant metrics for project • Define, prioritize and estimate needed Test Efforts • Measure performance of components and systems (if applicable) WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS • Close cooperation with a customer • Challenging tasks • Competence development • Team of professionals • Dynamic environment Originally posted on Himalayas