Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Salla is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to take ownership of product quality across our platform. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that every release meets our quality standards, and you will be accountable for making informed go/no-go release decisions based on risk and test results.

You will be expected to define the most suitable QA approach for our product and teams, including the testing strategy, tools, standards, and workflows. This approach should be flexible, not rigid: you will adapt the depth, type, and process of testing to fit each situation, whether it's an urgent hotfix, a major feature launch, or a high-risk change.

This is a hands-on role covering both manual and automated testing. You will work closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to review requirements, define test strategies, perform manual and exploratory testing, and build reliable test automation using Playwright.

Beyond identifying and resolving defects, you will analyze their root causes and implement preventive measures to reduce recurring issues.

Responsibilities

• Own quality end to end, building it in early through requirement reviews, design discussions, and test strategy, through to the final go/no-go call on releases
• Define and continuously refine the QA approach, including testing standards, workflows, tools, and quality metrics. Adapt testing depth, process, and priorities to risk, timeline, and context rather than applying a one-size-fits-all process
• Decide what needs testing, how deeply, and with which approach (functional, regression, API, UI, performance, security, usability). Decide what stays manual and what gets automated, and know when enough is enough
• Perform thorough manual and exploratory testing on new features, finding what scripts miss: edge cases, unexpected user behavior, UX problems, and the UI details users notice (layout, states, responsiveness)
• Build and maintain Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) automation that runs in CI, catches real i…