Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual & Automation)

About the role

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Abstra, you will join a high‑energy, collaborative team delivering high‑quality software. The position is primarily manual functional testing with growing automation responsibilities, working on‑site in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute manual test cases for functional, exploratory, regression and integration testing.
• Review user stories and acceptance criteria, creating test documentation.
• Perform sanity, smoke and regression tests across functional areas.
• Log and track defects using Jira or TFS.
• Support UAT and production deployments.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to ensure smooth CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps.
• Contribute to light automation tasks and explore test efficiency improvements.

Required profile

• 5+ years of software quality assurance experience.
• 1‑3 years of hands‑on automation testing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail.

Required skills

• Manual functional testing.
• Automation testing with Playwright.
• SQL (CRUD operations, joins).
• API testing tools such as Swagger, Postman, SOAP UI.
• Jira and TFS for defect tracking.
• Azure DevOps for CI/CD.
• Agile methodologies.

What we offer

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Impactful projects with a talented team.
• Excellent compensation in USD.
• Hardware and software setup.