QA Automation Engineer (SDET, Playwright & API) (Europe, Remote)

Company Overview Intel 471 empowers enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations to win the cybersecurity war using the real-time insights about adversaries, their relationships, threat patterns, and imminent attacks relevant to their businesses. The company’s platform collects, interprets, structures, and validates human-led, automation-enhanced intelligence, which fuels our external attack surface and advanced behavioral threat hunting solutions. Customers utilize this operationalized intelligence to drive a proactive response to neutralize threats and mitigate risk. Organizations across the globe leverage Intel 471’s world-class intelligence, our trusted practitioner engagement and enablement, and globally-dispersed ground expertise as their frontline guardian against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats to fight the adversary — and win. The Role Intel 471 is looking for a proactive, adaptable QA Automation Engineer to support the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for a fast-moving product track. The role is remote, based in Europe, on a contract (B2B) basis. We expect our engineers to work in an AI-augmented way. You should be comfortable using AI coding assistants (such as Claude / Claude Code or equivalent LLM-based tools) as part of your daily workflow to accelerate test creation, debug failures, refactor suites, and review coverage while keeping a critical eye on correctness, reliability, and security. We prioritize adaptability and the ability to extract value from AI-generated output over mastery of any single tool or framework. Key Responsibilities - Contribute to quality processes across the planning, development, and release stages of the SDLC. - Use AI-assisted development tools to design, generate, validate, and maintain test assets at scale. - Review and critically evaluate AI-generated test output before it enters the repo catching false positives, coverage gaps, and wrongful assertions. - Be able to judge the usefulness of AI vs on-hands testing - Develop and maintain end-to-end tests (UI, API, integration) and increase automation coverage for regression suites. - Collaborate with developers, product teams, and QA leadership to define quality standards and communicate risk clearly. - Adapt processes quickly in response to a changing product environment. Education, Experience & Qualifications Must-Have Technical Skills - 3+ years with Playwright and strong JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js knowledge. - 3+ years testing REST APIs within a BDD (Cucumber) approach, using Python or Java. - Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing, exploration, and debugging. - Hands-on experience using AI assistants (Claude, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) in a real engineering workflow, with a clear understanding of their strengths and limitations, and the ability to extract reliable, production-ready output. - Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and integrating automated test suites into pipelines. - Demonstrated, quantifiable impact from past QA work (time saved, defect catch rate, coverage improvement). Must-Have Soft Skills - Very good English communication skills, written and spoken. - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box on complex or ambiguous testing challenges. - Ability to estimate and manage your own time and prioritize effectively. - Ability to communicate automation strategy, coverage, and results clearly with product stakeholders. - Proactive, curious approach willing to learn and grow. Nice to Have - Experience building or improving AI-assisted tooling (prompts, pipelines, generators). - Experience integrating AI tooling into QA processes (AI-assisted test generation, self-healing tests, LLM-based test data generation). - Experience with testing agents or test-focused MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tooling. - Familiarity with Agile / Scrum environments. Benefits: - Competitive compensation - Remote-friendly culture - Wellness…