QA Engineer

At Damia Group Portugal (Permanent), in Porto, Portugal Expires at: 2026-05-11 Remote policy: Partial remote**About the company:**Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience. Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period, we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organisations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill.

Main requirements

About The role: You will be:

• Devising test strategies that cater for functional and non-functional requirements, assessing risk and impact of changes;
• Deg, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts for API and web applications;
• Working with product owner and developers to review project documentation such as functional requirements, technical specifications, and input from a testability perspective;
• Managing and performing testing, recording results, and,where appropriate, carrying out initial root cause investigation;
• Taking responsibility for ensuring that applications fulfil the business requirements;
• Defect tracking and management, working with development teams to identify root cause and resolve issues, working with the business during UAT defect resolution;
• Inputting into the release process on the quality and readiness of software;
• Responsible for regression testing strategy;
• Participating in cross-functional process improvement initiatives;

Measurements of success in this role:

• Ensuring production deployments meet quality standards with minimal issues;
• Increased automation coverage across API and web application tests;
• Timely and accurate execution of test plans aligned with project timelines;
• Continuous improvement of testing processes and frameworks, contributing to efficiency gains.

The kind of person you are:

• 4+ years' commercial experience in a testing role, with exposure to all aspects of the QA testing (unit, integration, system, regression, load and performance testing);
• Working experience in implementing automated testing frameworks for API or web applications (eg: Cypress, Playwright);
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle;
• Experience with technologies such as AWS, NoSQL Databases MongoDB, JavaScript, Typescript, GitHub, API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI), performance testing tools (jMeter, K6), BrowserStack;
• Excellent communication, problem-solving skills, logical thinking and attention to detail;
• Fluency in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

Skills to impress (plus)

• Test first mentality (TDD, BDD);
• Any contributions to Open Source projects;
• Experience in Airlines and Airports Industry, Air Travel Industry;
• Managing test environments;
• BSc Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems or similar;
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing;
• Experience testing chatbot flows;
• Experience with LLM prompt design or generative AI tools.