Freelance Software QA Automation Engineer

🔎 We’re hiring: Freelance Software QA Automation Engineer

ITSEC is looking for a freelance QA engineer who can build reliable automated tests, investigate failures, and give the development team a clear picture of release quality. We need someone who can work independently, understand the product’s critical user journeys, and create tests the team can maintain as the software evolves.

What you’ll own

• Design and maintain automated tests for web applications and APIs. • Build regression coverage for critical flows, including authentication, permissions, forms, integrations, and error handling. • Run exploratory and manual tests where automation alone will not reveal the full issue. • Integrate tests into the development pipeline so failures are visible before release. • Investigate failed tests, distinguish product defects from test failures, and improve test reliability. • Report defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and business impact. • Provide concise test results and a release readiness summary.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production software. • Strong hands-on experience with Playwright; equivalent experience with Cypress or Selenium will also be considered. • API testing experience, including authentication, validation, and negative test cases. • Ability to write clean test code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a comparable language. • Experience running automated tests through a CI/CD pipeline. • Strong manual testing judgment and precise written communication. • Mobile app automation experience, such as Appium, is an advantage.

Freelance engagement: Please include your availability, expected rate, and a brief example of an automation framework or test suite you have built.

📩 Send your CV and relevant work examples to talents@itsecnow.com with “Freelance QA Automation Engineer” in the subject line.