Senior Test Analyst - Performance

Company overview

Small accounting firms in New York use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product.

Role overview

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. The right person reads acceptance criteria carefully and asks the awkward questions early. This hire will build out our Playwright suite and get it running reliably in CI. Our headquarters is in New York City, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Main duties

• Log, triage and track defects in Jira with severity and priority
• Build API test suites with Postman, REST Assured or pytest
• Load test with JMeter, k6 or Gatling and report on response times
• Manage test data and environments with developers and DevOps
• Create test plans and regression checklists for major releases
• Run exploratory testing on new features and document findings with clear repro steps
• Write and maintain automated UI tests with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium WebDriver
• Review user stories and acceptance criteria for gaps before sprint work begins

You'll need

• 6+ years of software QA experience, including test automation
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile/Scrum
• Experience with at least one UI automation framework
• Ability to write clear bug reports and test cases
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON and tools like Postman

Pay and benefits

Rate: $1,150 - $1,350/month

• Company laptop
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Annual rate review

We review applications as they come in.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Coastlight Systems.