[Hiring] LATAM Principal QA Automation Engineer @Praxent

Role Description

Your Mission:

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint.
• Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout a portfolio of projects.
• Ensure Success: Provide end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects to ensure successful delivery within budget.
• Advance Capabilities: Continuously research and experiment with new tools and frameworks that create more value for client engagements.
• Give Feedback: Communicate expectations throughout the project team and manage escalations promptly and thoroughly.
• Set Standards: Develop standards for testing and reporting, analyze portfolio of testing metrics to advance our capabilities.
• Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting.
• Eliminate Ambiguity: Develop detailed testing strategies that build confidence with the agile team and client stakeholders.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria, tracking daily progress, limit team’s QA kickback, deliver stories as assigned, find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity.

Qualifications

• Technical Proficiency: Demonstrable proficiency with desired technologies and tools.
• Deep expertise in developing and maintaining end-to-end test frameworks using Selenium or Playwright.
• Expertise using these frameworks with C# and .NET or Java.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD integration of automated tests using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Testing up a test automation framework from scratch.
• Additional knowledge and experience in AI-assisted development and testing (Claude Code, Cursor, CoPilot, etc.).
• 8-11+ years professional experience in relevant technology and projects.
• Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value.
• Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact.
• Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews.
• A technical degree is a plus, but equivalent experience via bootcamps, self-teaching, or professional practice is equally valued.
• Values Alignment: We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome.

Benefits

• A stable, full-time role with paid time off, local holidays, and country-specific perks.
• Work/life balance that promotes a true 40-hour work week.
• A culture recognized for workplace excellence.
• Support without micromanagement; your career is yours to grow.
• Your voice matters; openness, curiosity, and shared ownership are encouraged.
• Paid time off and holidays based on your country’s standards.
• Country-specific benefits that reflect where you live.
• Investment in your growth through online courses, tech conferences, or certifications.
• A people-first approach that leads with kindness, respect, and empathy.

Company Description

On this project, you will be working with one of the largest education-focused nonprofits in the country, dedicated to empowering families to access the learning options that best fit their children's needs. For more than two decades, the organization has administered need- and access-based K-12 scholarship programs that have funded over a million educational opportunities for students.

• Channeling nearly all of every dollar received directly into student scholarships.
• Operating at significant scale, managing multiple scholarship programs spanning private school tuition, students with unique abilities, personalized and home education, and transportation support.
• Partnering with thousands of schools, service providers, and donors statewide.