Celara - QA Automation Engineer (GFW

• You will work across the following products and platforms: • Interactive maps showing vessel tracks, fishing activity heatmaps, encounters on the high seas, port visits, and carrier vessel activity — rendered through time using our latest map platform; • Vessel identity and carrier vessel tracking features, including new layers and datasets added to the core map over the past several years; • The Public/Private APIs — a major strategic expansion now providing external developers and researchers with programmatic access to datasets and services. API quality, reliability, and contract testing are a core responsibility of this role. • Tools for users to upload, display, and analyze their own datasets alongside our datasets • Playwright and Vitest (primary E2E and integration automation framework — required) • Cypress (used on select products — experience is a plus) • Selenium (legacy; knowledge helpful but not the focus) • Jest and axios • Modern JavaScript / TypeScript (ES6+) • React (hooks) and Redux • Mapping and dataviz: Deck.gl, D3, turf • CSS3, CSS Modules • Node.js (Nest and Koa), Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • CI/CD: Google Cloud Build • Git and GitHub • Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for our front-end products and public API — this is the primary and non-negotiable function of this role: • Lead end-to-end test automation using Playwright, covering functional, regression, cross-browser, and performance scenarios; • Own API test automation: write and maintain contract tests, functional tests, and integration tests for GFW's public and internal APIs; • Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Cloudbuild), ensuring tests run reliably on every relevant trigger; • Design and document test cases for user stories; validate acceptance criteria with the product team before implementation begins; • Define and maintain test suite organization — smoke, regression, and full suites — and determine which cases warrant automation vs. manual execution; • Run and maintain regression suites when new features are released or underlying data versions change; • Conduct periodic regression runs on production environments; • Work closely with the product team during user story definition to ensure testability and clear acceptance criteria from the start; Creating a test plan for every release; • Report bugs clearly in the issue tracking system and follow up until resolution working closedy with product to understand impact of the bug and define priority; • Define, record, and report on QA metrics to assess coverage, test reliability, and areas of product risk; • Advance overall QA strategy, tooling, and infrastructure over time. • Automation is the core of this role. Candidates who cannot demonstrate hands-on automation experience will not be considered. • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production web applications — please be prepared to discuss specific projects and outcomes; • Proven, recent experience with Playwright for end-to-end browser automation (required); • Solid experience with API test automation: writing contract tests, functional API tests, and integration tests; • Experience working in Agile teams with sprint-based delivery; • Experience with CI/CD integration of automated tests (GitHub Actions or equivalent); • Experience with performance and cross-browser testing; • Experience with test plan and test case development, including defining what to automate vs. test manually; • Willing to comb through a complex network of interdependent tools, resources, user roles, and permissions; • Detail-oriented, with a mindset geared toward finding edge cases and breaking things. • Experience with Cypress in addition to Playwright; • Experience testing non-traditional, data-heavy applications using maps, charts, heatmaps, or other data visualizations; • Strong proficiency with Git and modern branching strategies; • Familiarity with Docker and containerized test environments; • Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform; • Open-source collaboration experience. • Strong written and verbal communication in English — most day-to-day collaboration is async and written. Having also good verbal Spanish is a plus; • Comfortable working remotely and independently in a small, fast-moving organization; • Proactive and highly organized — owns tasks end-to-end without needing to be chased; • Team player who is willing to teach and learn across disciplines; • Intellectually curious and open to suggesting and evaluating new tools, approaches, or strategies; • Flexible and able to adapt to shifting priorities and evolving requirements; • Able to communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders — from engineers to product managers to senior leadership; • Comfortable managing multiple ongoing tasks, sharing estimations, raising risks and meeting deadlines.