QA Automation Engineer

OVERVIEW

MinuteBox

• Loved by legal professionals
• Supercharging legal work
• Fast, efficient and fun

Our customers turn hours of legal work into minutes by supercharging their workflows. Along with you, we're shaping the future of legal, regulatory and compliance work. Join us

Shape the Future

For too long legal software has been difficult, boring and stuck in the '90s. We're shaping the future of legal work with fun, delightful products that bring joy to our users and that adds value to their work.

Accomplishing this begins with a great team that cares about our customers, our values and each other.

Make a Big Impact

Legal technology is the last frontier awaiting its technological revolution in the workplace and MinuteBox is at the forefront. We are taking on a massive market and a massive problem across various domains and practice areas.

Company Culture

MinuteBox is a place where leaders are born. Our founding team and management believe in empowering you to lead and excel at what you do best. We value mental and physical health and well-being and strive to create a positive work environment for everyone.

About the Job

As a QA Automation Engineer at MinuteBox, you'll be responsible for building and scaling automated testing that ensures our product is stable, reliable, and ready to ship with confidence. You'll work closely with the QA Lead, Development, and Product teams to analyze requirements, design automation strategies, and embed quality throughout the development lifecycle.

This role is hands-on and impact-driven. You'll take ownership of our end-to-end automated testing using Playwright and TypeScript, contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements, and help evolve our overall approach to quality engineering. Beyond writing tests, you'll influence how we think about risk, coverage, and release readiness.

We're looking for someone with strong technical foundations in testing or development who is passionate about automation, continuous improvement, and delivering a high-quality user experience. You'll have space to introduce new tools, experiment with AI-assisted workflows, and help shape the future of QA at Minutebox.

Key Responsibilities:

Test Automation Development

• Design, develop, and maintain automated end-to-end test suites using Playwright and TypeScript
• Analyze product requirements and user stories to ensure comprehensive automated test coverage
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable test automation code following best practices
• Implement and maintain test automation design patterns such as the Page Object Model (POM)

Testing Activities

• Perform testing across multiple levels including unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression
• Execute automated test suites, analyze results, and identify failures or gaps in coverage
• Identify, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps and context

CI/CD & Infrastructure

• Set up, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution
• Configure and manage test environments and test data
• Monitor test execution results and report on test metrics and trends
• Troubleshoot flaky tests, pipeline failures, and environmental issues

Collaboration & Code Review

• Review developer pull requests from a quality and testability perspective
• Participate in code reviews for test automation code
• Collaborate with developers to understand code changes and identify testing scenarios
• Work closely with Product to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Explore and implement AI tools and technologies to improve testing efficiency and workflows
• Stay current with testing trends, tools, and automation best practices
• Identify opportunities to expand automation coverage and improve QA processes
• Contribute to QA documentation and internal knowledge sharing

Prerequisites:

• 5+ years of commercial experience in QA, software testing, or software development
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript, with the ability to write, read, and debug code
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, with Playwright preferred (or Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer)
• Solid understanding of software testing theory, including test levels, test types, and test design techniques
• Experience testing APIs, including knowledge of REST APIs, HTTP methods, and status codes
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles
• Experience using Git for version control, including branching, merging, and pull requests
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

Preferred/Nice to Have:

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS
• Hands-on experience setting up or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• SQL knowledge for test data validation and verification
• Experience using API testing tools such as Postman, Insomnia, or Playwright's API testing capabilities
• Exposure to performance testing concepts and tools
• Interest in or experience using AI-assisted tools to enhance testing and engineering workflow

About the Role

• Permanent salaried employee
• Hybrid work environment
• Salary commensurate with experience

Why choose MinuteBox?

• We are a group of passionate and thoughtful people working together to fundamentally change the way legal work gets done
• We are growing quickly Plus, MinuteBox is the highest-rated platform on the popular G2 Crowd software review website
• We have all the fun perks you'd expect—flexible vacation policy, competitive vision, dental, and health benefits, team lunches, and socials (yes, even remotely)
• We are proud of our culture and care about it deeply—we live by our team values and are always trying to make MinuteBox a better company today than it was yesterday
• We encourage learning, growth, continuous improvement, and provide the freedom to experiment

Not sure if you qualify?

Apply anyway We extend opportunities to a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds. Whether you're new to the corporate world, returning to work after a gap in employment, or simply looking to transition or take the next step in your career path, we are excited to connect with you.

MinuteBox Values Diversity and Equal Opportunity

MinuteBox is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team of highly talented individuals and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their best and authentic selves to work .If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, whether it be alternate forms of material, accessible meeting rooms, etc., please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.