Mid-Level QA Automation Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Impactum Insights is a proudly independent Romanian company with over a decade of experience in developing software solutions that capture public opinion and deliver insights. Our platforms combine cutting-edge technology with deep research expertise to simplify and streamline the way organizations understand their audiences.

We’ve led large-scale projects across more than 20 countries on five continents. Today, our focus is on building AI-powered tools for both quantitative and qualitative research, empowering teams to extract deeper insights, faster and with less friction. Whether refining existing products or launching new ones, we’re committed to making research accessible, scalable, and impactful.

Excited to grow? We’re looking for a curious, quality-obsessed Mid-Level QA Automation Engineer to join our Bucharest-based team.

As QA Automation Engineer, you will own the quality of our web applications and APIs. You will build and maintain automated test suites, and use modern AI coding agents to design, generate and maintain tests faster than traditional approaches allow. You will have an affinity for finding the edge case nobody thought of, and the discipline to turn it into a reliable, repeatable test.

We work with Agile methodologies and deliver in one-month sprints. Each sprint starts with planning, where decisions on architecture and design are made, followed by implementation, testing, live release and retrospective. There is no team lead, all team members contribute hands-on, and everyone gets to be scrum master for one month, by rotation.

The activity is transparent, and you can take part in decisions on product concept, design and technical solutions. Quality is a shared responsibility here, and you will help developers write more testable software, not just test it after the fact.

• Designing, building and maintaining end-to-end automated test suites for our web applications, primarily with Playwright;
• Using AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar) to generate, review, refactor and debug tests, while keeping a critical eye on what they produce;
• Writing automated API tests for our RESTful services;
• Defining test strategy and coverage together with developers, covering functional, regression, smoke and cross-browser/responsive testing;
• Integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines so every release is verified automatically;
• Triaging flaky tests, finding root causes and keeping the suite fast and trustworthy;
• Performing exploratory and manual testing where automation isn’t the right tool;
• Writing clear, reproducible bug reports and following them through to resolution;
• Validating data correctness with SQL queries, especially in our analytics and reporting features;
• Testing AI-powered features, where outputs are non-deterministic and require creative validation approaches;
• Contributing to release readiness, including smoke tests on live deployments;
• Writing test documentation and sharing best practices with the team.

We are looking for an open and proactive professional who brings a diverse skill set, a positive attitude and a healthy sense of humor.

Required:

• 2 - 4 years of experience in QA, with a meaningful part of it in test automation;
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, or with a comparable modern framework (Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, TestCafe) and the willingness to move to Playwright quickly;
• Solid JavaScript/TypeScript skills (or strong scripting ability in another language, such as Python or Java, with readiness to switch);
• Good understanding of web fundamentals: HTML, CSS selectors, the DOM, HTTP, browser dev tools;
• Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, Playwright API testing, REST Assured or similar);
• Working SQL knowledge;
• Git versioning and code review workflow;
• Ability to write maintainable test code: page objects or equivalent patterns, reusable fixtures, clear naming.

Strongly Preferred:

• Practical experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agent mode or similar) in your day-to-day testing work, including prompting, reviewing and correcting generated tests;
• Experience with CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar);
• Familiarity with Playwright features such as tracing, network mocking, parallel execution and visual comparison.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with performance or load testing (k6, JMeter or similar);
• Basic accessibility testing;
• Exposure to testing LLM/AI-based features;
• Some experience with Google Cloud Platform or Docker;
• Basic Linux command-line comfort.

Other Relevant Skills:

• Attention to detail, with a healthy skepticism about “it works on my machine”;
• Confidence, creativity and drive;
• Eager to learn on the job and to keep up with new tools, especially in the AI space;
• A good communicator and a reliable team player;
• Can work autonomously when needed;
• Can articulate ideas to colleagues and clients effectively and incorporate the ideas of others;
• Can provide a good level of support to non-technical colleagues;
• Full professional proficiency in English and Romanian.

• A relaxed, inspiring workspace in one of Bucharest’s most elegant neighborhoods, surrounded by historic architecture and prestigious institutions;
• A young, forward-thinking team that values collaboration, good humor, and smart ideas;
• An informal environment where creativity thrives and hierarchies don’t get in the way of innovation;
• Access to new technologies and modern tools, including AI coding agents, that support your professional growth;
• An energizing culture where coffee chats and spontaneous brainstorming are part of the daily rhythm.

This is a place where you can truly grow, feel at ease, and do meaningful work, with people who actually enjoy Mondays.

What’s in It for You:

• A minimum of 23 paid vacation days;
• 1 extra paid leave day for each full year in the team;
• 24th and 31st December paid days off;
• Office-first hybrid work model (4 days a week at the office and one day per week from home; you can choose between Wednesday or Friday to work from home);
• Regina Maria medical subscription for each team member +1 extra family member;
• Gym membership;
• Full availability to support professional development (e.g. courses, programs, other resources).