QA Automation Engineer (French Speaker) – Portugal

About the role

Shore is seeking a QA Automation Engineer who is fluent in French to join its engineering team in Portugal. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability and performance of web applications through both manual and automated testing, while promoting best‑practice QA throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and run automated end‑to‑end tests using Playwright.
• Execute manual functional, exploratory, regression, integration and API tests.
• Create and manage test plans, test cases and test executions with Xray for Jira.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers and business analysts to define test strategies and acceptance criteria.
• Identify, document and track defects in Jira.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
• Continuously improve QA processes and automation practices.

Required profile

• Proven experience in QA automation with Playwright (Node.js, TypeScript or JavaScript).
• Hands‑on experience with Xray for Jira and test management.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC/STLC and Agile/Scrum.
• Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, Bruno or Playwright).
• Professional fluency in French and English.

Required skills

• Playwright
• Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Xray for Jira, Jira
• REST API testing, Postman, Bruno
• Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• CI/CD tools – GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• BDD concepts – Cucumber, Gherkin (optional)
• Performance testing with k6 (optional)