Job Summary 🎯

Yalo is seeking a highly adaptable and innovative Quality Automation Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will play a meaningful part in upholding the highest quality standards for our products, working in close collaboration with engineers, product partners, and designers.

As a key member of our QA team, you will not only implement functional and test automation tasks but also actively shape the future of QA practices across all Yalo products. This is a good opportunity to make a significant impact by supporting our teams in building high-quality, scalable, automated solutions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable test strategies, ensuring the robust quality of our product suite.

The ideal candidate is a critical thinker and problem solver, possessing a strong attention to detail and a results-oriented mindset. You thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, demonstrating autonomy and proactiveness while continuously learning and integrating emerging technologies.

If you are passionate about quality, eager to drive efficiency and innovation, and possess strong communication and collaboration skills, we encourage you to apply and contribute to our mission of delivering exceptional products.

What are the activities of a QA Engineer?

• Champion QA best practices across the STLC and contribute to continuous improvement of testing processes, infrastructure, and tooling.
• Integrate early QA activities into the SDLC to ensure quality from the start.
• Guarantee comprehensive test coverage across Unit, Integration, Acceptance, System, Regression, UAT, Security, and Performance testing.
• Analyze product requirements and technical documentation to design and execute detailed test strategies, test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Validate multilingual (English/Spanish) experiences to ensure accurate localization and usability
• Document bugs with clear and reproducible steps, and track debugging efforts through resolution.
• Analyze test results and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide bilingual reporting on risks, coverage, progress, and quality outcomes.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and scripts (primarily in Python).
• Create and maintain automated test suites (smoke, sanity, regression) to minimize repetitive manual work.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in automation architecture, coding standards, and best practices.
• Support BDD workflows using Behave or Cucumber.

If you meet the next experience this is your role don't hesitate. We want you on the team! 🧠

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish (spoken and written).
• At least 3 to 6 years of experience as a QA Engineer with a strong understanding of STLC and QA methodologies.
• 3+ years of experience building automation frameworks and writing automated tests in Python (UI, APIs , load and/or performance testing).
• JS/TS is nice to have
• Practical knowledge of Git/GitHub for version control and collaboration..
• Good experience with testing tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or similar
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation execution through tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional environments.
• Experience testing localized/multilingual applications.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail).

If you have the next skills and experience it will be a super plus 💻:

• Strong experience on shift-left testing
• Experience developing automation strategies from scratch
• Familiar with genAI coding tools 

What soft skills matter to us? 🫀

• Accountability and ownership
• Analytical mind, critical thinking and problem-solving
• Attention to detail
• Eager to learn and suggest
• Enjoy thinking through complex problems and system interaction to find gaps, edge cases and failure modes.
• Collaboration and Teamwork

What do we offer? 🥰

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Competitive rewards on the market range
• Personal - Work life integration
• Start-up environment
• International teamwork
• You and nothing else limit your career here

At Yalo, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that embodies our core values: caring, initiative, excellence, and simplicity. We believe in the power of diversity and inclusivity, where everyone's unique perspectives, experiences, and talents contribute to our collective success. As we embrace and respect our differences, we strive to create something extraordinary for the benefit of all.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal opportunities to individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our commitment to fairness and equality is a fundamental pillar of our company.

At Yalo, we uphold a culture of excellence. We constantly challenge ourselves to go above and beyond, delivering remarkable results and driving innovation. We encourage each team member to take initiative and make things happen, empowering them to bring their best ideas forward and contribute to our shared goals.