Job description
Job title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Department: Engineering
Reports to: Head of QA
Location: EU timezone (Poland, Romania, Germany, UK, remote from EU)
We’re searching for an experienced Quality Engineer to develop test frameworks, own testing activities and processes that enable rapid delivery and uphold the highest quality standards. Your contributions will help establish and maintain our leadership in delivering high-performance products. Join us to make a significant impact on millions of customers who trust and rely on our products daily for their internet privacy and security needs.
Who you are
You’re a problem-solver, comfortable with change, and unafraid to ask critical questions to ensure clarity and quality in projects. Your growth mindset fuels your collaborative spirit, making you an ideal team player who’s also a mentor and knowledge sharer.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement cutting-edge testing tools and test frameworks in collaboration with developers, aiming for best-in-class software and network performance measurement.
- Champion automation by identifying optimization opportunities for testing efficiency and effectiveness.
- Take ownership of product quality through comprehensive risk analysis, quality activity planning and test execution, ensuring the best user experience.
- Engage in collaborative efforts across functions, promoting our culture of open communication, skill sharing, and mutual support.
- Drive continuous improvement in our QA processes, tools, and practices, contributing to a culture of excellence and innovation.
We value a proactive approach to problem-solving, creativity in facing testing challenges, and a commitment to quality and collaboration.
What you’ll bring
- At least 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, with significant focus on automation engineering, plus strong complementary manual testing skills for exploratory, usability, and edge case validation.
- Expert-level programming skills and proven test automation experience for both web and backend technologies (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST API automation frameworks). Proficiency in Typescript, JavaScript, or Go is highly desirable.
- Hands-on experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins.
- Strong background in performance and load testing (e.g., K6, JMeter) and ability to interpret metrics.
- Experience in API contract testing, mocking, and service virtualization.
Ability to design and implement automation strategies from scratch, and mentor others in automation best practices.
- A proactive, innovative mindset with excellent communication skills and a high sense of ownership over product quality.
- Strong programming skills and test automation experience for web and backend technologies. We work with a range of technologies such as Typescript, Playwright, K6, React, Go, REST
- A deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing at various levels.
- A proactive, innovative mindset with excellent communication skills and a high sense of ownership over product quality.
How you’ll succeed
- By developing and implementing testing tools and test frameworks that lead to measurable improvements in product performance and quality.
- Through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure comprehensive testing coverage and quality assurance.
- By staying at the forefront of testing and QA methodologies, we are continuously seeking ways to innovate and improve our processes.
- Your impact will be evident in the quality and reliability of our products, as well as in the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing and QA practices.
How we’ll support you
We believe in fostering an environment that empowers decision-making at all levels. Our culture is rooted in the inverted pyramid approach, where the engineers, who have a deep understanding of the product and the customers, are the ones who have the knowledge and the authority to make impactful decisions.
- We prioritize treating every team member with respect and promote open and constructive feedback, ensuring a culture of trust and transparency.
- We encourage learning through experimentation and provide a safe space for everyone to learn from their experiences.
- Our managers are dedicated to facilitating career growth and creating an environment that attracts and supports talented engineers.
ExpressVPN, a Kape Technologies company, is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equal recruitment and employment opportunities and do not discriminate based on gender identity and/or expression, age, race, color, disability, culture, religion or belief, family and/or marital status, sexual orientation, or other characteristics protected by applicable law. We celebrate a diverse and inclusive work environment in which applicants and employees are treated with respect and dignity and excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, and performance.
Before you apply
- At the moment, we do not sponsor visas in the EU. For Hong Kong, we require at least two years of working experience and a university degree in a related field. For Singapore and the UK, we can only sponsor visas for mid-career or above.
- Please upload your resume as a PDF and do not include any salary or compensation information in it.
ExpressVPN is one of the world’s leading providers of online privacy and security services for consumers. Started in 2009, we’ve grown to have millions of active paying customers, a team of more than 700 people worldwide, and a brand recognized by hundreds of millions of people in 18 languages and more than a hundred countries. We see huge growth in our industry, and are gaining market share through strong execution.
