[Hiring] QA Engineer @SalesAPE.ai

Role Description

SalesAPE is looking for a Contract QA Engineer to own quality across our fast-moving product. You'll build and scale our QA function from the ground up—setting the quality bar, driving automation, and helping us move toward continuous delivery safely. This role sits at the intersection of engineering rigour and AI innovation, and you'll work closely with product engineers and prototypers to balance speed with safety.

Key Responsibilities & Scope

• Own the QA strategy end-to-end: from triaging risk to implementing automation
• Design and implement a scalable QA process tailored for small, fast-moving teams
• Set the quality bar for what's required to ship to production safely, even at higher cadence
• Automate as much as possible, including integration, E2E, and regression testing across our Django and NextJS stack
• Apply AI to QA — whether it's test case generation, diffing, log analysis, or something we haven't thought of yet
• Collaborate closely with product engineers and prototypers to balance speed and safety

Qualifications

• Experience standing up QA functions or frameworks in early-stage teams
• Ability to prioritise testing pragmatically, balancing risk vs. velocity
• Fluency in QA tooling and frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Pytest, Cypress)
• Comfortable working across a full-stack environment (backend APIs, front-end UIs, async jobs)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (we use GitHub Actions)
• Clear communicator who collaborates well with engineers and product leads

Requirements

• Experience testing AI-based or ML-driven products
• Familiarity with pytest, factory_boy, or coverage.py in Python
• Comfort writing or reviewing testable frontend components in React/NextJS
• Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-moving environment

Benefits

• A foundational role helping us move from weekly to continuous delivery
• The opportunity to shape how we integrate AI into our testing strategy
• A high-trust, low-ego team focused on fast iteration
• A funded, product-led startup at an exciting inflection point
• Freedom and autonomy as principal values
• Contract role — 3 months initial term, then rolling monthly
• Rate equivalent to up to £50k per annum