Join Our Flash Team as a Quality Automation Engineer in the Dominican Republic!

Flash is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Quality Automation Engineer (QAE) to join our team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to our software quality, focusing on the creation, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. As a QAE, you will work closely with our development and product teams to identify testing requirements and drive a culture of quality throughout the engineering organization.

Unlike a traditional manual tester, you will spend the majority of your time writing code to automate test suites, ensuring our software is reliable, scalable, and ready for rapid delivery. You will be an integrated member of a cross-functional agile team, helping us move faster with confidence.

At Flash, we empower our employees to innovate, collaborate, and solve impactful challenges. As part of our Santo Domingo team, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, drive meaningful product improvements, and contribute to a customer-first culture in a dynamic, fast-growing company!

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Hybrid – 3 days at our Metro Plaza office

Travel: 0%

Language: Spoken and written fluency in English and Spanish required

What You'll Do:

• Test Automation: Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable automated test suites to ensure comprehensive coverage across the application.
• Framework Utilization: Utilize and extend existing automated testing frameworks and tools to improve the efficiency of the testing process.
• Test Strategy & Planning: Partner with developers and product managers to define test strategies, create test plans, and design detailed test cases.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to enable continuous testing and rapid deployment.
• Quality Advocacy: Participate in design and feature reviews to provide a quality perspective, identify risks, and ensure new features are built for testability.
• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track defects, working closely with developers to troubleshoot root causes and verify solutions.
• Non-Functional Testing: Support performance and security testing efforts to ensure the reliability and safety of our applications.
• Test Environments: Collaborate with the engineering team to maintain stable test environments and manage complex test data.
• Tooling & Metrics: Implement and use tools for test execution, reporting, and tracking quality metrics to measure success.
• Agile Collaboration: Actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives as an integrated member of a cross-functional development team.

What You Bring:

Technical Skills

• 3+ years of experience in a QA automation-focused role.
• Proficiency in Programming: Strong skills in at least one object-oriented language (TypeScript, C#, Java, or Python).
• Testing Mastery: Hands-on experience testing API (Services), UI (Front-end), and Mobile applications.
• Automation Tools: Experience with modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or Appium.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps and version control systems like Git.
• Data Validation: Proficiency in SQL for test data management and backend validation.
• SDLC Knowledge: A strong understanding of the full software development life cycle and agile methodologies.

Soft Skills

• Problem-solving aptitude; Innately curious and driven to find solutions to problems; Analytical thinking
• Attention to Detail: A high degree of precision in identifying defects and documenting technical processes.
• Team-Focused: A collaborative mindset with a passion for helping the team achieve high-quality outcomes.
• Adaptability: A quick learner who can stay on task in a fast-paced environment and adapt to new technologies.
• Excellent Communication: Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong sense of ownership and dedication to writing clean, reliable, and maintainable code.
• Capability to establish structure and derive meaning from broad instructions to achieve the final objective
• Confident in asking questions and challenging the necessity of a requirement
• Comfortable with coding and process standards
• Able to work independently and stay on task
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them effectively.
• Loves to learn

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in QA automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English, written and spoken.

 Company Benefits and Perks:

• Hybrid role at our new office at Metro Plaza
• Legal Dominican benefits
• Supplemental Private Medical Insurance (HUMANO)
• Gym subsidy
• Meal subsidy 
• Competitive salary
• Annual vacation bonus