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Clara is the leading spend management platform in Latin America, serving 40,000+ businesses with corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and B2B payments. Named the fastest-growing company in Latin America by the Financial Times in 2025, Clara is backed by top-tier investors including Kaszek, Coatue, DST Global, and Goldman Sachs.
You will build and maintain the systems behind Clara's QA platform as a Fullstack/Backend Engineer focused on QA Automation. This is an engineering craft role—closer to SDET/SET/platform engineer than manual QA—where you write production-grade code that enables pods and QA teams to generate, run, and trust automated tests.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement shared automation frameworks and libraries for web/API testing (Playwright preferred), with stable selectors, modular architecture, and clear extension points for product pods.
• Build backend APIs and fullstack components that store test cases, record run results, expose reports, and integrate with delivery workflows (Linear webhooks, Slack notifications, GitHub Actions).
• Structure frameworks and contracts to enable AI-assisted QA, allowing agents and CLIs to generate and execute specs reliably (ticket → matrix → runnable tests → evidence).
• Implement and harden CI/CD pipelines for smoke and regression suites; reduce flakiness and make failures diagnosable.
• Treat automation as a first-class codebase: conduct reviews, write tests for helpers, manage versioning, document thoroughly, and refactor for maintainability.
• Partner with QA engineers on adoption and with product engineers on testability (APIs, data-testid/ARIA, environments, test data hooks).
This role emphasizes enabling automation at scale rather than owning all manual exploratory testing. It requires stronger software engineering depth than traditional QA roles, with responsibilities spanning services, APIs, data models, and frontend tooling for internal systems.
Clara operates with a hybrid model: team members split time between office, customer sites, and home. No minimum office days are set for most roles, though presence is expected during ramp-up and as leadership requests.
Requirements:
• 4+ years of software development experience (backend and/or fullstack) with demonstrable automation or developer-tooling delivery.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript for Playwright or equivalent E2E frameworks; willingness to work in Clara's backend stack (Java/Spring Boot) where services or integrations require it.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks (web and API); understanding of the test pyramid and when to prefer API vs UI coverage.
• Backend fundamentals: REST APIs, relational databases, authentication basics, and clean service boundaries.
• Fullstack comfort for internal tools: React/Next.js or similar for dashboards and test-management UIs.
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar), Docker familiarity, and Git-based collaboration.
• Ability to debug flaky tests, environment issues, and integration failures systematically.
• Strong English (written and verbal); Spanish is a plus.
Nice-to-Have:
• Prior SDET/SET/Test Infrastructure Engineer experience.
• Mobile automation (Appium) or BrowserStack.
• Workflow orchestration (n8n), Linear/GitHub API integrations, or AI/agent tooling for test generation.
• AWS and observability basics for running automation reliably in shared environments.
• Fintech/payments domain exposure.
• Experience replacing external test-management tools with internal systems.
