QA Automation Engineer (Remote, Full-Time) [HR189] (PK)

About Smart Working   At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.   Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally. Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.   About the Role As aQA Automation Engineer, you will take ownership of quality across a mature, multi-repository digital health platform, building and maintaining a robust automation framework while improving test coverage and overall platform reliability.  Working closely with a small engineering team, you'll collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, define and document expected system behaviour, and translate those into effective automated tests. This is a highly hands-on, autonomous role where you'll play a key part in enhancing software quality, enabling faster and more reliable releases, and ensuring the platform delivers a seamless experience for clients, end users, and internal teams.

Responsibilities • Take end-to-end ownership of the quality assurance process, designing and developing the automated testing framework.

• Understand how a large, multi-repo system works and how it should work from client, end-user and internal operations perspectives.

• Ask the right questions and document expected behaviour where inherited documentation is partly out of date.

• Author English-readable scenarios in Cucumber and Gherkin.

• Build automation in JavaScript and TypeScript.

• Drive the UI through a page object model.

• Add data-test-ids to React code where missing.

• Validate correct database state using SQL.

• Maintain the automated tests as new features arrive.

• Feed into requirements upfront as new features are planned.

• Flag compliance, regulatory and security implications.

• Run exploratory testing to identify where the product behaves incorrectly.

• Improve reliability and enable faster, safer releases through automation.

• Reproduce multi-step defects precisely and identify edge cases.

• Build a repeatable, documented QA process from an unreliable baseline.

• Work out how the system should behave across multiple user perspectives and how it might break.

Requirements • 4+ years of experience in QA or test automation, hands-on with TypeScript or JavaScript.

• 4+ years of hands-on test automation coding in TypeScript or JavaScript.

• 2+ years of BDD test authoring with Cucumber and Gherkin.

• 3+ years of web UI test automation using a page object model, preferably with Playwright.

• 2+ years of end-to-end QA ownership, including defining, documenting, building and maintaining tests.

• 3+ years of requirements analysis and stakeholder communication.

• 2+ years of SQL querying to validate database state, using MySQL or PostgreSQL.

• 3+ years of exploratory testing and precise multi-step defect reproduction.

• Ability to drive automation and own the build with limited direction.

• Strong detail orientation, including the ability to spot edge cases and gaps in specifications.

• Hands-on JavaScript or TypeScript automation coding is non-negotiable; willingness to learn is not sufficient.

Nice to Have • Mobile app testing and automation experience, especially with Flutter apps.

• Experience with Appium or Flutter integration_test.

• Experience reading and working with React front-end code.

• Experience with Angular, Vue or another modern JavaScript framework.

• Security and regulatory awareness, including ISO 27001, GDPR or NHS DTAC.

• Experience in another regulated or audited environment.

• ISO 13485 medical-device regulated-environment testing.

• Experience in an adjacent regulated domain such as medtech, fintech or NHS/DTAC.

• Healthtech or digital health domain experience.

• Comfort using AI in the engineering workflow.

Benefits • Fixed Shifts: 11:30 AM - 9:00 PM PKT (Summer) | 12:30 PM - 10:00 PM PKT (Winter)

• No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words

• Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and assets provided

• Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared

• True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued