Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: This is a full-time role, open to remote candidates based in Ireland.

Company Overview: Pulsate is a leading Mobile Engagement Platform tailored for Financial Institutions. Our platform enables personalized, real-time, and proactive messaging to customers, ensuring that financial decisions are made with the institution top of mind. In a nutshell: we build tech that drives personalization and growth for financial institutions. Backed by industry experts, we have established partnerships with numerous credit unions and community banks across the United States.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Quality Engineer (QE) to join our growing team. This is a, full-time role, open to remote candidates based in Ireland.

This is not a pure automation role — while experience in automation is highly valued, we’re seeking someone equally comfortable writing and executing manual tests. The ideal candidate thrives on variety: from writing automated scripts, to digging into manual exploratory testing, to ensuring our mobile SDK performs flawlessly.

You’ll be part of a collaborative QA team, working closely with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure the highest quality software products.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the QA Lead to define, execute, and continuously improve both manual and automated testing strategies.

• Set up and maintain automation test environments.

• Write, execute, and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard tools (e.g. Playwright).

• Perform manual testing of web and mobile applications, with a focus on mobile SDKs (mandatory).

• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to performance, security, device/browser compatibility, and functionality.

• Manage defect tracking and resolution processes in a consistent and documented way.

• Actively contribute to CI pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and work with monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Elastic).

• Mentor and support other team members in QA best practices.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a Quality Engineer.

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience with automation testing of web applications using tools like Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.

• Strong experience in mobile testing (including working with mobile SDKs) — this is mandatory.

• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Elastic).

• Experience with digging into Database in particular MongoDB.

• Solid understanding of QA concepts, methodologies, and best practices.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Strong problem-solving, time management, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience creating or enhancing test automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails.

• Experience with security testing of web applications.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS).

Tools & Technologies We Use

• Playwright

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, VPC, etc.)

• New Relic

• JIRA, qase.io

• MongoDB

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay and a remote-first workforce.

• Professional development opportunities.

• Flexible working arrangements. 

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, a cover letter detailing their experience, and a portfolio of relevant work.