WHAT WE DO

Founded in 2007, Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) is a consulting and technology services company. We consult, design, build, and modernize revenue-generating software and data engineering solutions for clients. With modernization services and AI tools, we help businesses achieve a competitive advantage through technology. GAP’s remote, integrated engineering teams use end-to-end solutions to innovate and align with your business goals. We have 600+ English-speaking engineers based in Latin America and approximately 20 U.S.-based engineers. With some of the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry, GAP’s focus is on customer and employee success.

GAP is a woman-owned company headquartered in Austin, Texas. We are a values-based company focused on growing our people by investing in education, onsite English classes, and training in the latest technologies, including AI, data analytics, and machine learning. Our goal is to provide solutions for our customers that help them achieve critical business outcomes, while enabling our GAPSters and our communities to attain long-term success.

Summary

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer. As part of our team, you will be responsible for
developing scalable, robust, and high-quality solutions. As an engineer, you are a professional with several years of hands-on experience, possessing advanced technical skills and in-depth knowledge. You excel in problem-solving, effective communication, guiding and mentoring other engineers, making critical technical decisions, and contributing to the strategic direction of projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive manual test cases to validate functionality, usability, security, and performance.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and issues using the team’s issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira).
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and provide QA insights during planning and retrospectives.
• Ensure quality standards are met before releases and deployments.
• Identify high-value test cases for automation and create automated test scripts (preferably using Cypress).
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to support continuous testing and faster delivery cycles.
• Work with developers to ensure the testability and maintainability of new features.
• Mentor and lead incoming QA team members, promoting best practices in testing and quality assurance.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Professional Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Software QA testing.
• 3+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer.
• 2+ years in leadership roles.

Required Skills

• Experience in test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting, with a strong emphasis on automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with test automation using Cypress for end-to-end and UI testing.
• Skilled in API testing (REST, gRPC, GraphQL), both manually and using automated tools.
• Proficient in programming languages and frameworks relevant to test automation (preferably .NET and JavaScript/TypeScript for Cypress scripting).
• Strong foundation in manual testing for functionality, security, UI/UX, and usability to complement automation efforts.
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g., SQL) for data validation and test setup.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Proficient in version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab).
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

Nice to have skills

• Experience working with clients in the retirement industry in the US to be familiar
  with some of the key concepts or processes, or experience with financial services.
• Experience with Cloud Services, preferably AWS.  
• Experience with Performance Testing.
• Experience with Mobile Testing.
• Experience with Data Testing.

Soft Skills

• Advanced English level.
• Open to learning new technologies.
• Great communication skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Good mentoring and negotiation skills.
• Strong technical support skills.

At Growth Acceleration Partners, we're an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We value everyone's unique background, and we provide equal opportunities regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other personal right protected by law. We foster a culture of belonging and strive to provide a welcoming environment where everyone feels safe to contribute and grow.