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 programs Employee recognition program A variety of professional development opportunities Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation Our Culture: The Intel 471 team is constantly growing and is always on the lookout for talented professionals who seek to operate on the forefront of the fight against threat actors impacting our customers and partners. Our culture of humility and quiet professionalism is a core attribute of Intel 471 and everyone within it. Our culture is collaborative, supportive and fast-paced. We're a mission-driven company. We're looking for talented, 'can-do' minded people with a passion for always doing the right thing. We believe in supporting a progressive culture that allows all our people to be themselves, enjoy exciting opportunities and grow with us. That's why our culture is founded on our core values of openness, inclusion, integrity and client focus, which set the tone for how we work together and treat each other in order to empower us all – and foster a unique team spirit. View our Culture Guide to find out more about us and what it’s like to work for Intel 471! By applying to this role, you confirm that you're willing to show your ID on a video call to confirm your identity.