QA Automation Engineer

ABOUT US Asteri is an AI-native Work Intelligence and Orchestration Platform that gives large enterprises the intelligence to understand how work is performed today and how it should be performed in the era of AI, eliminating inefficiencies and identifying high-impact opportunities for AI augmentation. Our platform orchestrates AI and human work with enterprise-grade governance, auditability, and measurement built for production environments at scale. THE ROLE We are hiring a QA Automation Engineer to join our growing engineering team. As a key member of the QA function, you will have the opportunity to define and build our quality assurance strategy from the ground up. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and quality of our AI-native enterprise platform. You will work in a fast-moving startup environment where balancing speed and quality is critical. While developers own unit, component, and service API tests, this role focuses on high-impact automation that secures production releases. This is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership over the end-to-end quality of production systems used by large enterprise customers. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Define and execute quality strategies and test plans aligned with the product roadmap and release cycles - Build and maintain an automation suite for cross-service end-to-end API tests and UI tests using modern frameworks - Integrate automated tests into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality and rapid feedback - Design automation approaches that provide high confidence in every production release - Perform targeted manual testing for new features and bug fixes - Partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL MUST-HAVES - Experience automating browser-based enterprise applications using modern frameworks such as Playwright - Experience with automated API testin