Senior QA Automation Engineer

This is a 100% remote position open only to candidates currently based in Mexico. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Mexico and reside in the country.

About Point

✨ Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.

✨ Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.

✨ Game-changing Product: We're building a category defining company in home equity. We’ve earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 20,000+ customers.

✨ Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.

✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in Mexico, while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.

About the role

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer at Point, you will be a technical leader in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products. You will design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate closely with engineering, product, and UX teams to drive a culture of quality across the organization. This is a hands-on role for someone who is passionate about software quality, continuous improvement, and mentoring others.

Check out our latest Engineering Blog to learn more about why it's a great time to join Point's Engineering team!

Your responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and scale end-to-end automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend services independently with minimal supervision.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable delivery.
• Define and execute comprehensive testing strategies across API, UI, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve code testability, reliability, and overall product quality.
• Track and analyze quality metrics, automation coverage, defect trends, and regression risks; recommend improvements.
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance from a quality perspective.
• Mentor and coach junior QA/SDET engineers, promoting best practices in automation and quality engineering.
• Drive quality initiatives across teams, influencing design and architecture decisions to enhance testability.
• Leverage AI/ML tools for intelligent test generation, prioritization, defect prediction, and test data management.
• Advocate for quality in product planning, release readiness, and post-release analysis.

About you

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with hands-on test automation expertise.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript; experience with additional languages e.g., Python, Ruby/Rails) is a plus.
• Expertise with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cypress), testing libraries, and testing tools.
• Experience or interest in leveraging AI/ML for testing optimization, intelligent test coverage, and defect prediction.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, agile practices, and CI/CD processes.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) 
• Knowledge of relational databases and the ability to write efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with developer tools, including GitHub Actions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence stakeholders.
• Passion for mentoring others and fostering a culture of quality within teams.

Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.