QA Automation Engineer (SDET, Playwright & API) (Europe, Remote)

Who we’re looking for

• 3+ years with Playwright and strong JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js knowledge.
• 3+ years testing REST APIs within a BDD (Cucumber) approach, using Python or Java.
• Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing, exploration, and debugging.
• Hands-on experience using AI assistants (Claude, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) in a real engineering workflow, with a clear understanding of their strengths and limitations, and the ability to extract reliable, production-ready output.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and integrating automated test suites into pipelines.
• Demonstrated, quantifiable impact from past QA work (time saved, defect catch rate, coverage improvement).
• Very good English communication skills, written and spoken.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box on complex or ambiguous testing challenges.
• Ability to estimate and manage your own time and prioritize effectively.
• Ability to communicate automation strategy, coverage, and results clearly with product stakeholders.
• Proactive, curious approach  willing to learn and grow.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to quality processes across the planning, development, and release stages of the SDLC.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to design, generate, validate, and maintain test assets at scale.
• Review and critically evaluate AI-generated test output before it enters the repo  catching false positives, coverage gaps, and wrongful assertions.
• Be able to judge the usefulness of AI vs on-hands testing
• Develop and maintain end-to-end tests (UI, API, integration) and increase automation coverage for regression suites.
• Collaborate with developers, product teams, and QA leadership to define quality standards and communicate risk clearly.
• Adapt processes quickly in response to a changing product environment.

About the position

Intel 471 empowers enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations to win the cybersecurity war using the real-time insights about adversaries, their relationships, threat patterns, and imminent attacks relevant to their businesses. The company’s platform collects, interprets, structures, and validates human-led, automation-enhanced intelligence, which fuels our external attack surface and advanced behavioral threat hunting solutions. Customers utilize this operationalized intelligence to drive a proactive response to neutralize threats and mitigate risk. Organizations across the globe leverage Intel 471’s world-class intelligence, our trusted practitioner engagement and enablement, and globally-dispersed ground expertise as their frontline guardian against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats to fight the adversary — and win.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-friendly culture
• Wellness programs
• Employee recognition program
• A variety of professional development opportunities
• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation