QA Engineer

Requisitos

• **About ThriveCart:** ThriveCart is a powerful platform used by over 50,000 people worldwide to generate over $5B in sales
• Included within the ThriveCart platform is a learning management system (LMS), affiliate management, cart and checkout functionality, making it a top solution for creators, coaches, consultants, and other businesses
• We integrate with everything you use and have a simple, clean UI with numerous features that allow customers to build income from existing traffic and we are the highest-converting cart for online businesses
• Our business is growing, profitable, and backed by LTV SaaS Growth Funds, and we are looking to expand our footprint amongst online businesses. **Location:** Remote (Europe / LATAM) **Job Overview:** You'll own quality end-to-end for ThriveCart's e-commerce platform — test strategy, automation, defect prevention, and production health monitoring
• This isn't a click-through-test-cases role: you own quality for your domain
• AI is a core part of the workflow here, not a bonus skill — for generating test cases, creating test data, drafting test plans, and accelerating automation
• What we're hiring for is judgment: knowing which tests actually matter, understanding risk, and thinking critically about AI-generated output. **What You'll Own:** Test Strategy &amp
• Planning * Own the quality strategy for your features and domain: test plans, risk assessment, coverage decisions * Flag ambiguities and testability gaps during requirements review, before code is written — shift-left quality * Define acceptance criteria in partnership with Product * Balance manual exploration with automated regression coverage * Document test plans, coverage decisions, and known risk areas for async visibility across the team Test Automation * Write and maintain automated tests (API, integration, end-to-end) using the team's frameworks * Keep automation suites fast, reliable, and maintainable — flaky tests are yours to fix, not ignore * Maintain CI/CD integration for test execution Production Quality &amp
• Incident Response * Monitor features in production using observability tools — quality doesn't end at release * Respond to dev-escalations and incidents with urgency: assess blast radius, run targeted regression testing, help isolate root cause, communicate findings clearly AI-Augmented QA (Expected, Not Optional) * Use AI tools daily: generating test cases and data, drafting test plans, analyzing bug patterns, accelerating automation writing * AI will generate more test cases than you need — prioritize ruthlessly based on risk * Review all AI-generated test output critically: AI has no product context, you do Defect Advocacy &amp
• Communication * Write clear, reproducible bug reports that developers can act on immediately * Advocate for quality: flag risks before release, document known issues, be explicit about what is and isn't tested Collaboration * Work closely with developers to improve testability at the code level * Help developers write better unit tests by identifying untested scenarios **What You Bring To This Role:** Technical Environment * Testing: API testing (Postman/REST clients), browser automation (Playwright), unit/integration test frameworks * CI/CD: GitHub Actions (tests run on every PR) * Observability: AWS CloudWatch, application logs, metrics dashboards * Platform stack: PHP/TypeScript, Ruby/TypeScript, MariaDB, Redis, AWS * Playwright is our standard framework for browser automation — what matters most is strong testing fundamentals Must-haves: * Strong testing fundamentals — test strategy, test case design, risk-based prioritization * Hands-on automation experience with Playwright * Comfortable with API testing (Postman/REST clients) and reading application logs * Already using — or genuinely motivated to use — AI tools in a QA workflow * Clear written communication: bug reports and test plans others can act on without a meeting Nice-to-haves: * Experience testing an e-commerce, payments, or subscription platform * Familiarity with PHP, TypeScript, or Ruby codebases * AWS/CloudWatch or similar observability tooling * GitHub Actions or another CI/CD pipeline **Expectations by Level:** * L1 (Junior QA) — 0–1 yrs: Executes test plans, writes simple automation with guidance, reports bugs clearly
• Bootcamp, internship, or early professional QA experience is fine — we're hiring for rigor and curiosity over tenure
• Uses AI to learn faster and generate test cases
• validates all AI output. * L2 (QA Engineer 1) — 1–3 yrs: Has independently owned quality for a feature or product area — not just extended someone else's test plan or suite, but built one
• Writes comprehensive test plans and automation, and responds to incidents with targeted testing. * L3 (Senior QA) — 3–6 yrs: Has led incident response from the QA side and mentored other QAs
• Owns quality strategy for complex projects, improves automation architecture and infrastructure, and uses AI to multiply output rather than just speed up individual tasks. * L4 (Lead QA) — 6+ yrs: Has set QA standards or practices for a team, not just followed them
• Serves as the quality authority for a domain, drives major incident response, and partners with leadership on quality metrics and AI tooling strategy. **Success Metrics:** * 30 days: First test plan written and approved, first automated tests in CI pipeline, understands the most critical user journeys * 60 days: Independently owning quality for a feature, automation suite stable, first incident response contribution * 90 days: Contributing to test strategy discussions, handling dev-escalations independently in your area **On-Call:** Shared rotation with engineering (~1 week/month after ramp-up)
• QA on-call focuses on blast radius assessment and regression testing during incidents. **Career Path:** Junior QA → QA Engineer 1 → Senior QA → Lead QA → Head of Quality **Learn More About ThriveCart:** Our Values are: Commit to Excellence Find a Way Help Each Other Keep Growing Data First Our team and product are growing rapidly- we achieved YoY growth of 64% from 2022-2023, and we’re just getting started
• We believe in open communication, clear goal setting, and that people do best when they have a growth mindset and want to get things done
• Our team comes from diverse backgrounds and companies like Shopify, Salesforce, and BigCommerce, and we are running like an independent SaaS company within a PE fund