QA Engineer

Job Description:

The Opportunity:
Our Reporting Product Engineering team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build world-class cultures centred around recognition, celebration, and conversations. The team manages core functionality for the
business and is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative solutions while maintaining and modernizing legacy systems that are crucial for keeping the business running.

We have an established team taking on exciting challenges, using analytics and reporting to drive the impact of recognition and it’s use in the businesses of our clients. You will have the autonomy to help design, build and deploy
this product, which will serve our enterprise customer base. We operate in a highly collaborative environment, wheremulti-disciplined individuals come together to make things happen.

We are looking for Automation QA Engineer to join our team in expanding and improving our Reporting solutions. We are a group of peers with high levels of trust and respect who collaborate closely to build the best software we can,
given the constraints we have. We succeed together, so your peers will always have your back. This is grown-up software engineering!

Tech stack: Python, Flask, RESTful webservices, AWS, QuickSight, Terraform, API, Postgres, Redshift, Jenkins, Sonar, Git, Docker/Containerization, JS and React based frameworks, TypeScript. Automation: Playwright + Typescript

What we can offer you:

• Contribute automated tests that directly improve release confidence and customer trust across core user journeys in our SaaS platform.

• Help implement and extend Playwright test frameworks in TypeScript, enabling faster feedback in CI and sustainable quality practices.

• Work within a culture that values learning, inclusive collaboration, and incremental ownership, with clear guidance as responsibilities expand.

• Partner with cross-functional teammates to shape test coverage, defect prevention, and lightweight quality metrics that inform decisions.

The skills you will bring:

• 2-4 years in QA automation with TypeScript or Python and either Selenium, Playwright or Cypress, plus CI experience.

• Solid grasp of RESTful testing, reliable selectors/waits, fixtures, and effective test data isolation.

• Strong defect lifecycle ownership: diagnose, report, triage, and drive to resolution with clear communication.

• Collaborative mindset to turn acceptance criteria into robust I/API/integration tests and integrate suites into CI.

• Growth focus: document patterns, improve determinism with data/mocks/env readiness, and propose incremental stability and coverage gains.

Achievements:

• Contributed automated tests or utilities that reduced flaky failures or improved suite runtime and reliability.

• Helped increase meaningful test coverage on a service or feature area, with clear reporting of results and risks.

• Played a key role in stabilizing CI pipelines or test environments to enable frequent, confident releases

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure)

• VHI health & dental cover for employee + dependents

• Pension scheme (post-probation)

• Income protection & life assurance

• Employee recognition programs

• Tuition reimbursement & access to Workhuman University

• Perks: free breakfast & lunch options, catered events, wellness activities, onsite gym, travel discounts, car parking)

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.

•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.

• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.