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I need an experienced QA tester to run a full user-interface sweep of my production web app, concentrating first on Google Chrome (latest stable build on both desktop and mobile). I’m looking for a methodical approach that mimics real-world user behaviour, uncovers visual glitches, broken flows, and usability friction points, and then reports them in a way my dev team can act on immediately.

Key needs
• End-to-end exploratory sessions across all pages and states
• Screenshots or screen-records for every defect, annotated with clear reproduction steps
• A concise test summary highlighting severity, affected components, and suggested fixes

If you normally rely on tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or Chrome DevTools, please note that’s a plus—I value repeatable scripts alongside manual exploration. I’m open to light coverage on Firefox or Safari once Chrome is clean, so flag any capacity for that in your proposal.

Deliverables
1. Test plan outlining scope, assumptions, and environment set-up
2. Defect log in spreadsheet or Jira-import format
3. Visual evidence (screenshots/video) for each issue
4. Final summary report with prioritised recommendations

I’ll grant access to the staging URL and user credentials as soon as we agree on the timeline. Looking forward to a sharp eye and a thorough report.

Skills: Testing / QA, Test Automation, Website Testing, Usability Testing, Selenium, Regression Testing, Accessibility Testing

Freelance Job Posting: Senior Frontend Developer (m/f/d) – Vue.js / React

Project Overview
We are looking for an experienced freelance Frontend Developer to build a web-based SaaS platform dashboard. The goal of this project is to create an intuitive interface that allows users to visually build, edit, and test XML Schematron rules, as well as manage, version, and share rule templates across teams.

Key Details

Start Date: Immediate / As agreed

Duration: 4–6 months (with option for extension)

Workload: 20–30 hours/week

Location: Fully Remote

Key Responsibilities

Dashboard & UI: Develop a modular, user-friendly dashboard for managing Schematron rules and template libraries.

Editor Integration: Integrate a web-based editor (e.g., Monaco Editor, CodeMirror, or a node-based visual builder) for creating and modifying complex XML/Schematron logic.

Template Management: Build workflows for saving, cloning, versioning, and sharing rule templates among user teams.

API Integration: Connect the frontend to REST/GraphQL APIs to support real-time XML validation against generated rule sets.

State Management: Implement robust client-side state handling for complex, deeply nested rule structures.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must-Haves:

Strong proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js 3 or React using TypeScript).

Solid understanding of XML, XPath, and ideally experience with Schematron schema validation.

Experience integrating web code editors (Monaco Editor/CodeMirror) or visual drag-and-drop rule builders.

Proficient with RESTful APIs or GraphQL integration.

Proven track record of building complex, data-heavy dashboards (using Tailwind CSS, Vuetify, or Material UI).

Nice-to-Have:

Familiarity with XSLT transformations.

Experience with automated testing tools (Jest, Vitest, Cypress).

Project Phases (Timeline)

Month 1: Architecture setup, UI/UX prototyping, core dashboard setup, and template library foundation.

Months 2–3: Core Schematron editor development (rule creation, syntax highlighting, and inline error reporting).

Month 4: Sharing features, permission controls, versioning, and real-time backend validation integration.

Months 5–6: End-to-end testing, performance optimization, UI polishing, and documentation handoff.

Skills: JavaScript, XML, HTML, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Frontend Development, Vue.js, RESTful API

Only QA Developer. If you have QA experience then only bid.

I’m ready to move my web application into production and need a skilled QA partner to run full-scale functional testing. Your focus will be twofold:

• User interface testing – walk through every user journey, confirm layout consistency, cross-browser rendering, responsive behaviour, touch interactions and error handling.
• API testing – exercise each documented endpoint, validate status codes, payload structure and data integrity, including edge-case scenarios.

Coverage has to span desktop browsers, mobile browsers and tablets so we know the experience is solid no matter how users reach us.

I’ll give you a dev URL, test credentials, API spec and access to our Linear board. Use whichever tools you work fastest with—Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, etc.—as long as the results are reproducible.

Deliverables should include:
1. A concise test plan with outlined cases.
2. Detailed defect reports in Jira (steps, expected vs actual, screenshots or videos, severity).
3. A final summary report with pass/fail statistics and clear recommendations.

Everything is considered complete once all critical flows pass and reported issues are verified fixed. Let me know your estimated timeline and any questions you need answered before starting.

Skills: JavaScript, Testing / QA, Software Testing, Test Automation, Usability Testing, Selenium, Regression Testing, API Testing

# Freelance Automation Testing Engineer – SaaS Web & Mobile Application

We are looking for an experienced **Automation Testing Freelancer / QA Automation Engineer** to help us set up and establish an automation testing framework for our **SaaS-based product**, which includes both a **web application and a mobile application**.

The primary requirement is to help us during the **initial setup phase**, define the automation strategy, build the framework, automate critical test scenarios, and establish a scalable structure that our internal team can continue using.

## Scope of Work

* Understand our SaaS product, business workflows, and application architecture.
* Review the existing web and mobile application and suggest an appropriate automation testing approach.
* Set up the automation testing framework from scratch.
* Automate critical **functional, regression, and end-to-end test cases**.
* Automate important user journeys such as:

* Login / Authentication
* User onboarding
* Employee management
* Attendance / Leave workflows
* Role-based access
* Form submissions and validations
* API integrations
* Notifications / OTP workflows
* Reports and data validation
* Other critical business workflows based on the product modules
* Set up automated testing for both **web and mobile applications**.
* Integrate **API automation testing** wherever required.
* Set up reusable test scripts, utilities, test data management, and reporting.
* Configure test execution across different environments.
* Provide guidance on **CI/CD integration** so automated tests can eventually run as part of our deployment pipeline.
* Identify the most critical regression test cases that should be automated first.
* Help establish best practices for maintaining and expanding the automation suite.
* Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to our internal development/QA team.

## Expected Deliverables

1. Automation testing framework setup.
2. Initial set of critical automated test cases.
3. Web application automation suite.
4. Mobile application automation suite.
5. API automation where applicable.
6. Test execution and reporting setup.
7. Basic CI/CD integration guidance/setup.
8. Documentation covering framework structure, execution process, and maintenance.
9. Knowledge transfer session for our internal team.
10. Recommendations for the next phase of automation coverage.

## Preferred Technical Experience

Experience with one or more of the following would be preferred:

* **Playwright / Selenium / Cypress** for web automation
* **Appium** or equivalent framework for mobile automation
* **Postman / REST Assured / similar tools** for API automation
* JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / Java / C# depending on the selected framework
* Git / GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
* CI/CD tools and pipelines
* Experience with cloud-based SaaS applications
* Experience with PostgreSQL or SQL databases is a plus

We are open to your recommendation regarding the **best automation technology/framework** based on our application architecture. We are more interested in a robust, maintainable solution than simply using a particular tool.

## Ideal Freelancer

We are looking for someone who:

* Has strong hands-on experience in automation testing.
* Has previously built automation frameworks from scratch.
* Understands both **web and mobile automation**.
* Can independently analyze an application and identify high-value automation opportunities.
* Can work closely with our development/product team during the initial setup.
* Follows clean coding and automation best practices.
* Can provide proper documentation and knowledge transfer.
* Has experience working with SaaS products and complex business workflows.

## Engagement

Initially, this will be an **initial setup and consulting/implementation engagement**. If the collaboration works well, there may be an opportunity for **ongoing automation testing and maintenance support**.

When applying, please share:

* Your relevant automation testing experience.
* Examples of automation frameworks you have built.
* Web and mobile automation tools you have worked with.
* Your recommended automation stack for this project.
* Estimated time required for the initial framework setup.
* Your hourly or project-based pricing.
* Any similar SaaS projects you have worked on.

**Please apply only if you have hands-on experience in building automation frameworks and can independently take ownership of the initial setup.**

Skills: Testing / QA, Software Testing, Test Automation

About the Project

We are preparing to launch a portfolio of 10 Shopify apps in September 2026.

The apps cover:

Inventory management
Purchase orders
Barcode/label printing
Inventory transfers
Serial/IMEI tracking
Consignment
Repair management
Layaway/deposits
Trade-ins
Order documents

We are looking for a detail-oriented Shopify QA tester who can systematically test these apps before launch and continue testing after launch.

This is not a simple "click around and report bugs" position. We need someone who can think like a Shopify merchant and QA engineer and identify problems before customers do.

What You'll Do
Pre-Launch Testing

You will test each app across:

Shopify admin
Shopify POS where applicable
Desktop
Mobile/responsive interfaces
Different Shopify store configurations
Different merchant workflows
Free/trial/paid plans
Billing flows
Permissions and user roles
App installation/uninstallation
App reinstallation
Data persistence
Error handling
Functional Testing

You'll create and execute test cases for things like:

Creating/editing/deleting records
Inventory adjustments
Barcode scanning
Order processing
Product/variant handling
Multiple locations
Customer information
Discounts
Taxes
Shipping/billing information
POS workflows
Webhooks
API-related functionality
Billing/subscription changes
Edge Cases

This is extremely important.

We want someone who asks:

"What happens if the merchant does something unexpected?"

Examples:

Product has multiple variants
Product has zero inventory
Product is deleted while an app record references it
Order is partially refunded
Customer has multiple addresses
Discount is applied
Merchant has multiple locations
Internet connection drops during a workflow
User installs/uninstalls the app
Subscription changes mid-cycle
Large inventory/catalog
Duplicate actions
Missing or invalid data
Bug Reporting

Every bug should include:

Title

Severity

Environment

Steps to reproduce

Expected behavior

Actual behavior

Screenshots/video

Relevant order/product/store information

We need reports that a developer can immediately understand and reproduce.

Regression Testing

Whenever our developers release a fix, you'll retest it.

You'll also make sure the fix didn't break another part of the application.

As the portfolio grows, you'll help build a reusable regression test suite across all 10 apps.

Shopify Experience Required

You don't need to be a developer, but you must understand Shopify well enough to test real merchant workflows.

Experience with:

Shopify Admin
Shopify POS
Products/variants
Inventory
Orders
Customers
Locations
Discounts
Shopify app installation
Shopify billing/subscriptions

is strongly preferred.

Experience testing Shopify apps is a major advantage.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is:

Extremely detail-oriented
Comfortable testing independently
Good at reproducing bugs
Excellent at written communication
Comfortable creating test plans
Able to think about edge cases
Responsive when critical bugs appear
Experienced with web applications
Familiar with Shopify
Bonus

Experience with:

BrowserStack
Postman
API testing
Jira/Linear/GitHub Issues
Playwright/Cypress/Selenium
Automated regression testing
Shopify POS testing

Senior Fractional SaaS / Full-Stack Engineer for Production CRM Platform

I am looking for an experienced Senior Full-Stack SaaS Engineer / Platform Engineer to provide independent technical oversight, production troubleshooting, architecture review, automated testing, and long-term engineering support for an existing construction-industry CRM platform called ForgeOne CRM.

This is not a project to build a new application from scratch.

ForgeOne is already a substantial working SaaS application with multiple modules, user roles, business workflows, customer/job management functionality, integrations, mobile and desktop interfaces, and an expanding feature set.

The platform has been developed rapidly with significant use of modern AI-assisted development tools. That has allowed us to move very quickly, but the application is now reaching the point where I want an experienced senior engineer involved to help transition the development process from rapid feature-building into a more mature production environment with stronger automated testing, monitoring, release controls, architecture oversight, and regression prevention.

I am the founder/business owner, not a traditional software engineer. I need someone who can understand the technical side deeply while also communicating clearly with me in normal business language.

This will initially be a fractional/part-time position, approximately 5–10 hours per week depending on what is happening. If the relationship is successful and ForgeOne continues growing, this could potentially develop into a much larger role or eventually a full-time technical leadership/engineering position.

What I Need

My biggest priority is production reliability.

As ForgeOne has grown, there are now enough interconnected features that making a change in one area can potentially create an unexpected issue somewhere else.

I do not want to rely solely on the founder, employees, customers, or subcontractors manually discovering regressions after a release.

I want to develop a proper engineering safety net around the platform.

The person I hire should be capable of looking at the entire application as a system rather than only working on individual frontend tickets.

You should be comfortable investigating problems across:

* Frontend
* Backend
* APIs
* Database
* Authentication
* User permissions
* Multi-tenant data separation
* Third-party integrations
* Browser/mobile behavior
* Deployment
* Logging
* Monitoring
* Automated testing
* Production infrastructure
* Security

Initial Assignment — Production Readiness / Architecture Audit

The first thing I want is an independent technical review of the existing ForgeOne platform.

I want someone experienced to examine how the system is currently structured before making major recommendations or changes.

The review should include areas such as:

* Overall SaaS architecture
* Code organization and maintainability
* Frontend/backend interaction
* Database design
* Multi-tenant architecture
* Company/tenant data isolation
* Authentication
* Authorization and role-based permissions
* API design
* Third-party API integrations
* Error handling
* Logging
* Production monitoring
* Security
* Secrets/environment configuration
* Deployment process
* Database migrations
* Backup/recovery considerations
* Performance
* Scalability
* Mobile responsiveness
* Automated testing coverage
* Release/change-management process
* Technical debt that creates actual business risk

I would like findings categorized approximately as:

Critical — immediate production, security, data, or operational risk.

High — should be corrected before significant customer growth.

Medium — important improvements that should be placed on the engineering roadmap.

Low — optimization, cleanup, or longer-term technical improvements.

I also want the engineer to identify what is currently working well.

I am not looking for someone who automatically recommends rebuilding everything because they prefer another framework or architecture.

If part of the existing application works correctly, is secure, scalable enough for our requirements, and can be maintained, I want that taken into consideration.

Changes should be driven by actual technical or business reasons.

Automated Regression Testing

A major project I want implemented is a comprehensive automated testing system that acts like real ForgeOne users.

The goal is to automatically test critical workflows after changes instead of waiting for a human user to discover that something stopped working.

I am interested in browser-based end-to-end testing using Playwright or an equivalent framework.

Examples of workflows that should eventually be automatically tested include:

* User login
* New-user invitations
* Invitation acceptance
* Authentication
* User permissions
* Company/tenant separation
* Dashboard loading
* Navigation
* Creating jobs
* Opening existing jobs
* Editing job information
* Estimates
* Saving information and returning to it
* File uploads
* Photo uploads
* Multiple-file uploads
* Customer workflows
* Employee workflows
* Subcontractor workflows
* Notifications
* Status/workflow changes
* Mobile navigation
* Desktop navigation
* Responsive layouts
* Major CRM modules
* Third-party integration screens
* Error states
* Permission restrictions

I want a structured test environment/test company using controlled test data rather than automated testing that performs destructive actions against real customer information.

External integrations that could create real financial or operational transactions must be handled appropriately through sandbox environments, mocks, test accounts, or other safeguards.

Production Monitoring

I also want much stronger visibility into what is happening when something fails.

I am interested in implementing or improving tools such as:

* Sentry or equivalent application monitoring
* Frontend error reporting
* Backend error reporting
* API failure tracking
* Performance monitoring
* Browser console error capture
* Failed network request capture
* Deployment/version tracking
* Useful diagnostic logs
* Screenshots or traces from failed automated tests

When an automated test fails, I want enough information available that an engineer can quickly determine what happened rather than spending hours trying to reproduce an unknown problem.

AI Reliability / Diagnostic Agent

Another area I am interested in developing is an internal AI Reliability Agent.

The AI should NOT have unrestricted authority to modify production code, production databases, or customer information.

The primary purpose would be:

* Monitoring
* Testing
* Diagnosing
* Comparing failures with recent changes
* Organizing logs
* Identifying possible causes
* Generating incident summaries
* Helping prioritize issues
* Suggesting possible fixes
* Assisting engineers with investigation

For example, if an automated browser test fails while opening a job, the ideal system could collect information such as:

* Which test failed
* Expected behavior
* Actual behavior
* Screenshot
* Browser console errors
* Network/API failures
* Relevant application logs
* Deployment/version
* Recently modified files
* Potential source of regression

The AI could then help analyze that information and provide an engineer with a useful starting point.

I want AI helping engineering, not AI operating production without appropriate controls.

Experience with the OpenAI API, AI agents, LLM integrations, developer tooling, or AI-assisted diagnostics is valuable, but strong traditional software engineering experience is more important to me than someone whose primary background is prompt engineering.

Release Process

I want help developing a safer release process.

The eventual goal is something similar to:

Development/change
→ automated tests
→ code/technical review
→ staging/testing
→ approval
→ production deployment
→ production smoke tests
→ monitoring

Critical workflows should be tested before a release is considered successful.

I also want guidance on sensible rollback procedures when a production change creates a regression.

Third-Party Integrations

ForgeOne includes and is developing multiple third-party integrations.

The engineer should be comfortable reviewing and troubleshooting:

* REST APIs
* OAuth/authentication flows
* Webhooks
* API credentials
* Rate limits
* Error handling
* Retries
* Sandbox versus production environments
* Integration security
* Data synchronization
* Failure recovery

Some integrations involve construction-industry suppliers and other outside service providers, so protecting credentials and preventing unintended external transactions is extremely important.

Additional details regarding integrations and architecture can be provided to qualified candidates after appropriate confidentiality protections are in place.

Security / Multi-Tenant SaaS Experience

Multi-tenant security is extremely important.

ForgeOne supports multiple independent companies using the same SaaS platform.

I need someone who understands that authentication alone is not sufficient.

The architecture must ensure that one customer/company cannot access another company’s:

* Jobs
* Customers
* Employees
* Financial information
* Files
* Photos
* Communications
* Credentials
* Integration information
* Other tenant-specific data

Experience reviewing authorization, RBAC, tenant isolation, database access controls, API authorization, and SaaS security is highly desirable.

Who I Am Looking For

I am looking for a senior engineer who has actually supported real production SaaS applications.

Ideal experience includes several of the following:

* Senior full-stack development
* SaaS application architecture
* Multi-tenant applications
* Modern JavaScript/TypeScript development
* Modern frontend frameworks
* Backend development
* SQL/relational databases
* API development
* REST APIs
* Authentication
* Authorization
* RBAC
* Third-party integrations
* Git/GitHub
* CI/CD
* GitHub Actions or equivalent
* Playwright
* Cypress or other automated E2E testing
* Production monitoring
* Sentry or equivalent
* Cloud deployment
* SaaS security
* Performance troubleshooting
* Production incident investigation
* AI-assisted development
* OpenAI/LLM integrations
* AI agent development

Experience with CRM, ERP, field-service, construction-management, project-management, fintech, insurance, or other workflow-heavy SaaS platforms is a strong plus.

The exact technology stack and repository architecture can be discussed with shortlisted candidates rather than making assumptions in this posting.

What I Am NOT Looking For

I am not looking primarily for:

* Desktop IT support
* Help desk support
* Network administration
* Basic website development
* WordPress development
* Landing-page development
* Someone learning SaaS development for the first time
* A prompt engineer with limited traditional software engineering experience
* An agency sending a salesperson while an unknown developer actually performs the work
* Someone who immediately wants to rebuild the entire application before understanding it

I want to communicate directly with the engineer who will actually be reviewing and working on ForgeOne.

Working Style

I move quickly and appreciate clear communication.

I do not need technical terminology used simply for the sake of sounding technical.

When there is a problem, I want an engineer capable of explaining:

1. What is wrong.
2. Why it matters.
3. What caused it or what likely caused it.
4. What options we have.
5. What they recommend.
6. What could potentially be affected by the change.
7. How we test the fix.
8. How we prevent the same problem from happening again.

I value engineers who understand that the objective is not merely to make a bug disappear.

The objective is to make the product more reliable after every fix.

Engagement

This will begin as an hourly fractional engagement.

Expected initial involvement is approximately 5–10 hours per week, although hours may increase or decrease depending on the project phase.

The first major deliverable will be the technical/production-readiness assessment.

If that goes well, I would like the relationship to continue into:

* Production stabilization
* Automated regression testing
* Monitoring
* Release-process improvements
* Architecture oversight
* Security improvements
* Integration review
* Difficult production debugging
* AI Reliability Agent development
* Ongoing engineering consultation

For the right person, this could become a significant long-term role as ForgeOne grows and could potentially transition into a full-time position in the future.

When Applying

Please do not send a generic copy-and-paste proposal.

Please answer the following:

1. Describe a production SaaS application you personally worked on and what your responsibility was.
2. Have you taken over or audited an application that was developed rapidly and needed stabilization? What did you find and what did you do?
3. Describe your experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications and tenant data isolation.
4. What experience do you have with authentication, authorization, and RBAC?
5. What automated end-to-end testing tools have you used?
6. Specifically, what experience do you have with Playwright, Cypress, or similar browser automation?
7. What production monitoring/error-tracking systems have you implemented?
8. What is your experience troubleshooting difficult production regressions?
9. Have you worked with applications developed using AI-assisted coding tools?
10. Have you built AI agents or LLM-powered engineering/operations tools? If yes, briefly explain what they did.
11. If you discovered that an existing part of ForgeOne was designed differently than you personally would have designed it, how would you determine whether to leave it alone, improve it, or replace it?
12. Are you comfortable beginning with a paid technical audit before assuming broader responsibility?

Please begin your proposal with “ForgeOne Review” so I know you read the posting.

I am looking for an experienced engineer who can become a trusted independent technical resource for ForgeOne—not simply someone to complete isolated coding tickets.

I am seeking an experienced software QA tester to thoroughly test CoreAxis, a healthcare-focused web application and progressive web app.

This is a complete functional and usability review. I need someone who explores the app like a real user, tests expected workflows, attempts unexpected actions, and documents every issue clearly.

Scope of testing:

• Account registration, login, logout, password reset, and session behavior
• User roles, permissions, and account access restrictions
• Navigation, buttons, forms, links, menus, and notifications
• Database search, including fuzzy matching, capitalization, misspellings, filters, and empty results
• Image and document uploads
• AI-assisted features and failure handling
• PDF viewing, saving, downloading, and opening on mobile devices
• Reports, exports, and downloaded files
• Mobile and PWA behavior
• Desktop and mobile browser compatibility
• Loading states, error messages, invalid inputs, and slow connections
• Data isolation between different user accounts
• Broken links, visual problems, confusing workflows, and inconsistent behavior
• Basic performance and security observations

Required device and browser coverage:

• Chrome on Windows
• Edge on Windows
• Safari on iPhone
• Chrome on Android
• At least one tablet-sized screen
• Multiple desktop and mobile screen sizes

Deliverables:

1. A written test plan listing all features and workflows tested.
2. A complete bug report containing:
Bug identification number
Feature or page affected
Severity level
Browser and device
Exact reproduction steps
Expected result
Actual result
Screenshot or screen recording
Recommended correction, when appropriate
3. A prioritized list of release-blocking issues.
4. A usability report identifying confusing or inefficient workflows.
5. A final retest report after the identified problems are corrected.
6. Automated regression tests for the most important workflows, preferably using Playwright or Cypress.

Important requirements:

• You must have experience testing web-based SaaS products.
• Healthcare application experience is preferred.
• Experience testing AI features, PDFs, uploads, downloads, and role-based permissions is strongly preferred.
• You must provide clear, reproducible bug reports.
• Only synthetic test data will be used. No real patient information will be provided.
• You must agree to keep the application and its contents confidential.
• Do not apply if you only provide general feedback without detailed testing evidence.

The initial engagement will begin with a paid $100 trial. The trial will cover login, account permissions, search, PDF viewing, and one AI-assisted workflow. Successful completion may lead to the complete application test and ongoing regression testing.

Please answer these questions:

1. What similar web or healthcare applications have you tested?
2. Can you provide a redacted example of a bug report you created?
3. Which browsers and physical devices can you test?
4. Do you have experience with Playwright, Cypress, Postman, or similar tools?
5. How would you test search accuracy, PDF failures, and role-based access?
6. How would you test an AI feature for inconsistent or unsupported results?
7. What would you include in a complete application test plan?
8. How many hours do you estimate this project will require?
9. Are you willing to complete the $100 paid trial before the full contract?
10. Will you personally perform the work, or will it be subcontracted?

## AI QA Automation Engineer — Build an AI-Powered Software Testing Workflow

We are looking for an experienced **AI QA Automation Engineer / AI Testing Engineer** to help us design and implement an AI-assisted testing workflow for our software development team.

### Our Goal

We already have an existing QA team and manual testing process.

We want to introduce AI and automation to significantly improve QA productivity, test coverage, and testing speed.

The goal is NOT simply to write Selenium/Playwright scripts.

We want someone who can help us build a practical workflow where **AI assists our QA team throughout the testing process**.

For example:

**Feature / Requirement**
→ AI understands the requirements
→ AI identifies affected/existing features
→ AI generates or updates test cases
→ Automated tests are generated/executed
→ Results, screenshots, logs and failures are collected
→ AI analyzes failures
→ QA reviews/validates the results
→ Bugs/regressions are reported clearly

### What We Want to Automate

We are interested in areas such as:

* AI-generated test cases from feature requirements
* Automatic identification of regression areas
* Web UI testing
* API testing
* End-to-end testing
* Automated regression testing
* AI-assisted exploratory testing
* Test data generation
* Screenshot / visual validation
* Failure analysis using logs, screenshots and responses
* Automatic bug report generation
* Test reporting and dashboards
* Integration into our development workflow / CI/CD

We are open to using existing tools/frameworks instead of building everything from scratch.

Possible technologies may include:

* Playwright
* Selenium
* Cypress
* Appium
* Postman / API testing frameworks
* GitHub Actions / CI/CD
* LLM APIs such as OpenAI / Claude
* AI testing platforms or agent-based testing tools

We are not fixed on a specific technology stack. We want the engineer to recommend the simplest practical solution.

### Important

We do **not** want an over-engineered enterprise testing platform.

Our priority is to build a practical system that our existing QA team can actually use every day.

The system should help our QA team:

1. Test new features faster
2. Generate better test coverage
3. Reduce repetitive manual testing
4. Automatically run regression tests
5. Detect failures and regressions earlier
6. Understand failures faster
7. Maintain test cases more efficiently

Human QA should remain part of the workflow. AI and automation should assist the QA team rather than blindly deciding whether a feature is correct.

### First Project

The selected engineer will first review our current development and QA workflow.

You should then propose a simple AI-assisted testing architecture and implement a working version against one of our existing systems.

We prefer to start small, prove that the workflow improves QA productivity, and expand it only if it works well.

### Ideal Candidate

You should have strong experience with:

* QA automation
* Playwright / Selenium / Cypress or similar
* API testing
* CI/CD testing workflows
* LLM / AI integration
* Test case design
* Regression testing
* Debugging frontend/backend failures

Experience building **AI agents or LLM-powered QA/testing workflows** is highly preferred.

### When Applying

Please do not send a generic QA automation proposal.

Please explain:

1. Have you built an AI-assisted testing workflow before?
2. What part of software QA do you believe AI can reliably automate today?
3. What parts should still remain human-reviewed?
4. What tools/frameworks would you recommend for this project?
5. Give us a simple example of how your proposed workflow would work:

**Requirement → Test Cases → Automated Testing → Failure Analysis → QA Review**

If you have built something similar before, please include screenshots, architecture diagrams, GitHub repositories, videos, or examples.

We are looking for someone who can **design the workflow and implement it**, not just advise us on AI testing.

Job Timining: 2 PM to 11 PM IST

About the role:

QA Automation Architect will have complete ownership for preparing test automation solutions, designing automation frameworks, and leading the implementation of test strategy, test plans, and test execution of the product.

Supports automation script development and the optimization of those scripts.
Recommends new tools, techniques, and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality.
Experience in architecting and building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
Collaborate with product teams to strategize and align long-term solutions for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework, and approach.
Evaluate, select, and formulate the best usage of test automation tools and future alignment for different products and applications.
Create a standard framework for Functional Automation, Performance Testing, and Security and Penetration Testing.
Present technical documentation for review by peers and the Development community.
Work with the QA team for resolution of technical issues of the product as needed.
Develop an automation strategy to support regression testing based on technical analysis, complexity, and reusability.
Respond appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with changes, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve testing efficiency, automation coverage, and delivery speed.
Evaluate and recommend AI-powered tools and techniques that can enhance test design, automation development, defect analysis, and overall QA productivity.
Mentor QA engineers on leveraging AI-assisted tools while maintaining engineering best practices, code quality, and testing standards.
Promote continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing manual effort, accelerating delivery cycles, and improving product quality.

Required Skills

We are looking for a QA Architect with a minimum of 8+ years of experience.
Good knowledge of JavaScript concepts and experience in working with React and Node.js.
Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews.
Expert in automation frameworks such as Cypress, Chai, Mocha, JUnit, TestNG, and Selenium.
UI and/or API level test automation expertise.
Experience with web service technologies like XML, REST, and SOAP.
Experience in high-volume, high-throughput web environments.
Experienced in implementing testing and QA frameworks in Web Applications domain using Agile methodologies.
Expertise with web performance infrastructure (CDNs, caching, reverse proxies) and cloud resources (AWS, Azure).
Thorough understanding and hands-on experience in developing and enhancing automation testing frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities.
Experience with modern AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, or similar platforms.
Ability to effectively leverage AI tools for automation development, test case generation, test data creation, documentation, code analysis, and productivity improvement.
Ability to review, validate, and refine AI-generated code and test artifacts to ensure quality, security, maintainability, and compliance with engineering standards.

Additional Skills

Knowledge in security testing, performance testing, and performance tuning is a definite plus.
Passion for achieving excellence in technical processes, product quality, and reliability.
Must be highly detail-oriented and technology-oriented and possess excellent communication skills.
Experience in AWS services including Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Cognito, S3, RDS, and Redshift.
Experience driving engineering productivity initiatives and adopting modern software delivery practices.
Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering practices and their application within Agile development and QA teams.
Understanding of responsible and secure use of AI tools in enterprise environments.

Required Technical Skills

TestNG
REST API Testing
Node.js
JavaScript
Cypress
API Testing
Automation Framework Design and Development
UI Test Automation
AWS
Selenium
Chai
Mocha
JUnit
React
Agile Testing Methodologies
AI-Assisted Development Tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or equivalent)

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About the Role
We are building a platform for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents — not models. Users build agents that reason, use tools, follow workflows, and automate tasks.
Testing this platform is not conventional QA. Agent outputs are non-deterministic, execution paths branch at runtime, tools have real-world side effects, and “correct” is often a judgement call rather than an assertion. We need a test engineer who can build the harnesses, evaluation suites, and regression infrastructure that make an agent platform trustworthy — covering both the Python orchestration layer and the Next.js agent-building interface.

Key Responsibilities
• Test agent orchestration logic: verify state transitions, branching, retries, fallbacks, loop-breaking, step limits, and token/cost budget enforcement across LangGraph / CrewAI / custom state machines.
• Build deterministic test harnesses for non-deterministic systems: mock LLM providers, recorded/replayed model responses, stub tool executors, and seeded fixtures so failures are reproducible.
• Design agent evaluation suites: golden trajectories, trajectory scoring, LLM-as-judge rubrics, and regression gates that catch quality drift between prompt, model, or framework changes.
• Test tool calling end to end: schema validation, malformed arguments, partial failures, timeouts, idempotency, and side-effect containment for external integrations (APIs, databases, browsers, Slack, GitHub).
• Validate streaming behaviour (SSE / WebSocket): chunk ordering, partial output rendering, mid-stream tool events, cancellation, reconnection, and dropped-connection recovery.
• Test the Next.js agent builder: node-based workflow canvas interactions, tool configuration panels, agent test chat, and real-time UI state under streaming load.
• Verify session management, agent versioning, and execution logs — including replay accuracy, audit completeness, and multi-tenant data isolation.
• Run performance and concurrency testing: p95 time-to-first-token, tool execution latency, queue depth under parallel agent runs, and behaviour under sustained load.
• Probe safety and sandboxing: prompt injection via tool outputs, sandbox escape attempts, secret/credential leakage into logs or traces, and permission-boundary enforcement.
• Own CI test infrastructure: fast/slow test tiers, flaky-test quarantine, test data management, and nightly evaluation runs.

Required Skills
Python (Agent Testing Focus)
• Strong Python (3.9+) with pytest and pytest-asyncio
• Practical understanding of agent frameworks — LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel — enough to read orchestration code and reason about execution paths
• Familiarity with ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, and multi-agent patterns, and the failure modes specific to each (loops, context loss, hand-off drift, tool thrash)
• Mocking and interception of HTTP/LLM traffic (respx, httpx mocks, VCR-style cassettes, or equivalent)
• Testing async and concurrent code: race conditions, cancellation, timeouts, partial completion
• Working knowledge of LLM tool/function-call schemas (OpenAI / Anthropic) and how to assert against them
• Comfortable writing evaluation code, not just assertions — scoring outputs where exact matching does not apply
Next.js / Frontend Testing
• E2E automation with Playwright (or Cypress) against Next.js 14+ App Router applications
• TypeScript + React component testing (React Testing Library or similar)
• Testing streaming and real-time UI: incremental text, agent thought traces, tool output panels, loading and error states
• Automating canvas / node-based UIs (React Flow, Blockly) — drag-and-drop, connections, zoom, serialization of the resulting graph
• Visual regression and accessibility checks
General
• REST and WebSocket API testing, including auth, pagination, error contracts, and streaming endpoints
• Load and performance testing with JMeter, k6, or Locust — designing realistic concurrency models, not just request floods
• Redis-backed queues and caches: verifying job state, retries, dead letters, and stale-cache behaviour
• Docker for spinning up isolated test environments and agent sandboxes
• CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions or similar) with meaningful gating and reporting
• Clear, reproducible defect reporting for non-deterministic failures — including trace, seed, and frequency
Nice to Have
• Experience building agent evaluators (LLM-as-judge, trajectory scoring, rubric design) in production
• Testing semantic search / vector stores for agent memory (Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector) — recall quality, not just API correctness
• Security testing exposure: prompt injection, tool abuse, sandbox escape, multi-tenant isolation
• Observability tooling for agent runs (LangSmith, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry traces) used as test evidence
• Contract testing between Python backend and Next.js frontend
• Chaos or fault-injection testing of external tool dependencies
• Open-source contributions to agent frameworks or testing tooling
• Experience testing on Vercel + Railway / AWS / Azure deployments

Application Requirements

Portfolio of relevant work (test suites, GitHub repos, evaluation frameworks, or case studies) — required for consideration
Applications without a portfolio will not be shortlisted.

We’re building the next-generation web version of an established product and are looking for an experienced Front-End Developer to help lead the rollout.

You’ll work primarily with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, building the interfaces our customers use every day. The frontend integrates with an existing C#/.NET REST API backed by SQL Server. You won’t be responsible for modifying the API or database, but you should be comfortable understanding relational data structures and working closely with backend developers when API or data issues arise.

What You’ll Do
Build and maintain production UI features using React and Next.js
Work with Next.js App Router, SSR, routing, server/client components, and modern data-fetching patterns
Integrate frontend functionality with an existing C#/.NET REST API
Translate product requirements and designs into responsive, accessible, production-quality interfaces
Handle complex data-driven screens, forms, tables, filtering, validation, and regional/business rules
Identify API limitations, edge cases, inconsistent data, and missing requirements early
Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested TypeScript code
Participate in code reviews and contribute to frontend architecture decisions
Maintain strong frontend performance and good Core Web Vitals
Collaborate effectively with a distributed, remote team
What We’re Looking For
3–5+ years of professional frontend development experience
Strong production experience with React
Strong hands-on experience with Next.js, particularly App Router and modern rendering/data-fetching patterns
Strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals
Excellent HTML5 and modern CSS skills
Experience building complex, data-heavy business applications
Strong understanding of component architecture, state management, reusable UI patterns, and frontend performance
Experience consuming and debugging REST APIs developed by another team
Comfortable understanding relational concepts such as schemas, relationships, joins, IDs, and normalized data
Ability to work independently in an async/remote environment
Strong communication skills and willingness to flag technical blockers early
Nice to Have
Experience with .NET/C# REST APIs
Experience with SQL Server-backed applications
Experience building or maintaining a design system or component library
Automated testing with Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress
Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, pull requests, and code-review workflows
Experience with CRM, construction, ERP, operations, or B2B SaaS platforms
Experience optimizing large tables, dashboards, search/filter interfaces, or other data-intensive UIs
Logistics
Fully remote
Ongoing product development with the opportunity for long-term collaboration
How to Apply

Please lead with relevant technical experience rather than a generic introduction.

In particular, tell me:

What production React or Next.js applications you have shipped
Whether you have worked on applications involving complex regional, relational, CRM, or business data
How you approached frontend performance as the application and dataset grew
How you typically structure API integration, state, loading/error handling, and reusable components
Which testing tools you use in production

Please include live product links or GitHub repositories where possible. Relevant examples will carry significantly more weight than a polished generic proposal.

Skills: JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, HTML, jQuery / Prototype, Node.js, Frontend Development, React Native, GraphQL, Next.js

Freelance Softwaretester / QA für Webportale – ausschließlich DACH

Wir suchen einen erfahrenen freiberuflichen Softwaretester / QA-Spezialisten für die laufende Qualitätssicherung unserer Webportale und Webanwendungen.

Gesucht wird ausdrücklich kein Entwickler, sondern jemand, der unsere Systeme systematisch aus Sicht eines Anwenders und Kunden prüft, Fehler findet und diese sauber für unser Entwicklerteam dokumentiert.

Aufgaben

* Manuelles Testen unserer Webportale und Webanwendungen
* Funktionstests kompletter Workflows
* Prüfung von UI/UX und Benutzerfreundlichkeit
* Tests auf verschiedenen Browsern und Endgeräten
* Prüfung von Login, Benutzerrechten, Formularen, Uploads, Downloads und weiteren Portal-Funktionen
* Erkennen von Fehlern, Inkonsistenzen und unerwartetem Verhalten
* Regressionstests nach Updates und Fehlerbehebungen
* Nachprüfung gemeldeter und behobener Fehler
* Strukturierte Dokumentation aller Findings
* Screenshots bzw. Bildschirmaufzeichnungen bei Bedarf
* Einstufung nach Priorität und Kritikalität

Ein Fehlerbericht sollte mindestens enthalten:

Was ist passiert?
Was hätte passieren sollen?
Wie lässt sich der Fehler reproduzieren?
Wie kritisch ist der Fehler?

Wichtig ist uns, dass nicht ausschließlich vorgegebene Testfälle abgearbeitet werden. Gesucht wird jemand, der Anwendungen eigenständig und kritisch untersucht und auch Probleme erkennt, an die wir selbst noch nicht gedacht haben.

Anforderungen

* Erfahrung im Bereich Software Testing / QA
* Erfahrung mit Webanwendungen, Kundenportalen oder SaaS-Systemen
* Sehr strukturierte und sorgfältige Arbeitsweise
* Erfahrung mit professionellem Bug Reporting
* Sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse
* Gute Englischkenntnisse
* Selbstständige und zuverlässige Arbeitsweise

Kenntnisse in Playwright, Cypress, Postman, API-Testing oder Testautomatisierung sind von Vorteil, aber keine Voraussetzung. Der Schwerpunkt liegt zunächst auf hochwertigem manuellem Testing.

Standort – zwingende Voraussetzung

Wir berücksichtigen ausschließlich Freelancer mit Sitz im DACH-Raum:

Deutschland, Österreich oder Schweiz.

Bewerbungen außerhalb des DACH-Raums werden nicht berücksichtigt.

Zusammenarbeit

Wir betreiben mehrere Webportale, die kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt werden. Daher suchen wir keine einmalige Unterstützung, sondern bevorzugt eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit auf Freelancer-Basis.

Typischer Ablauf:

1. Bereitstellung einer neuen Version oder Funktion
2. Eigenständiger Test
3. Dokumentation der gefundenen Fehler
4. Behebung durch unser Entwicklerteam
5. Retest / Regressionstest
6. QA-Freigabe

Bewerbung

Bitte kurz angeben:

* Standort
* bisherige Erfahrung im Software Testing / QA
* Beispiele bisher getesteter Webanwendungen
* verwendete Testing-Tools
* Stundensatz
* wöchentliche Verfügbarkeit

Bitte die Bewerbung mit „DACH-QA“ beginnen. So erkennen wir direkt, dass die Ausschreibung vollständig gelesen wurde.

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer / SDET to support active web applications built with PHP, Node.js, and related backend frameworks.
This is a full-time role with a strong focus on backend QA, API testing, database validation, regression testing, and release quality.
This is not a basic manual QA position.

Responsibilities
- Test PHP and Node.js application features, bug fixes, and production workflows
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and API testing
- Test REST APIs using Postman or similar tools
- Validate application data directly in MySQL and other relational databases
- Test authentication, authorization, sessions, validation, and edge cases
- Investigate background jobs, queues, scheduled tasks, asynchronous processing, and caching behavior
- Review application and server logs and identify likely root causes
- Create clear bug reports with detailed reproduction steps
- Test GitHub pull requests and verify fixes before release
- Build or maintain automated tests when appropriate

Required Skills
- Strong QA experience with PHP and/or Node.js web applications
- Experience with PHP frameworks such as Yii, CodeIgniter, or similar
- Experience with Node.js frameworks or applications, including Meteor.js or similar technologies
- REST API testing
- Postman
- MySQL / SQL
- Git / GitHub
- Functional and regression testing
- Integration testing
- Ability to read and understand backend application logic
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting ability

Preferred Skills
- PHPUnit or similar backend testing frameworks
- Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
- Redis or other caching/data-store technologies
- Automated API testing
- CI/CD testing workflows
- Experience testing asynchronous and event-driven applications
- Previous SDET or backend-focused QA experience

Availability Requirements
- Must be available for full-time work
- Must be able to work during U.S. Eastern Time business hours
- Must be available to work through at least 7:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
- Candidates who cannot meet this schedule should not apply

English Requirements
- English proficiency must be C2 or equivalent near-native professional proficiency
- Excellent spoken English is mandatory
- Must be able to participate comfortably in technical discussions and client/team meetings in English
- English communication ability will be evaluated during the first interview
- Candidates below the required English level will not proceed past the first interview

When Applying
- Describe your QA experience with PHP and/or Node.js applications
- List the PHP or Node.js frameworks you have worked with, such as CodeIgniter, Meteor.js, or similar
- List the QA and automation tools you have used
- Describe your API and database testing experience
- Provide your current time zone
- Confirm that you are available full-time
- Confirm that you can work through 7:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
- Confirm your English proficiency level

Senior Fractional SaaS / Full-Stack Engineer for Production CRM Platform

I am looking for an experienced Senior Full-Stack SaaS Engineer / Platform Engineer to provide independent technical oversight, production troubleshooting, architecture review, automated testing, and long-term engineering support for an existing construction-industry CRM platform called ForgeOne CRM.

This is not a project to build a new application from scratch.

ForgeOne is already a substantial working SaaS application with multiple modules, user roles, business workflows, customer/job management functionality, integrations, mobile and desktop interfaces, and an expanding feature set.

The platform has been developed rapidly with significant use of modern AI-assisted development tools. That has allowed us to move very quickly, but the application is now reaching the point where I want an experienced senior engineer involved to help transition the development process from rapid feature-building into a more mature production environment with stronger automated testing, monitoring, release controls, architecture oversight, and regression prevention.

I am the founder/business owner, not a traditional software engineer. I need someone who can understand the technical side deeply while also communicating clearly with me in normal business language.

This will initially be a fractional/part-time position, approximately 5–10 hours per week depending on what is happening. If the relationship is successful and ForgeOne continues growing, this could potentially develop into a much larger role or eventually a full-time technical leadership/engineering position.

What I Need

My biggest priority is production reliability.

As ForgeOne has grown, there are now enough interconnected features that making a change in one area can potentially create an unexpected issue somewhere else.

I do not want to rely solely on the founder, employees, customers, or subcontractors manually discovering regressions after a release.

I want to develop a proper engineering safety net around the platform.

The person I hire should be capable of looking at the entire application as a system rather than only working on individual frontend tickets.

You should be comfortable investigating problems across:

* Frontend
* Backend
* APIs
* Database
* Authentication
* User permissions
* Multi-tenant data separation
* Third-party integrations
* Browser/mobile behavior
* Deployment
* Logging
* Monitoring
* Automated testing
* Production infrastructure
* Security

Initial Assignment — Production Readiness / Architecture Audit

The first thing I want is an independent technical review of the existing ForgeOne platform.

I want someone experienced to examine how the system is currently structured before making major recommendations or changes.

The review should include areas such as:

* Overall SaaS architecture
* Code organization and maintainability
* Frontend/backend interaction
* Database design
* Multi-tenant architecture
* Company/tenant data isolation
* Authentication
* Authorization and role-based permissions
* API design
* Third-party API integrations
* Error handling
* Logging
* Production monitoring
* Security
* Secrets/environment configuration
* Deployment process
* Database migrations
* Backup/recovery considerations
* Performance
* Scalability
* Mobile responsiveness
* Automated testing coverage
* Release/change-management process
* Technical debt that creates actual business risk

I would like findings categorized approximately as:

Critical — immediate production, security, data, or operational risk.

High — should be corrected before significant customer growth.

Medium — important improvements that should be placed on the engineering roadmap.

Low — optimization, cleanup, or longer-term technical improvements.

I also want the engineer to identify what is currently working well.

I am not looking for someone who automatically recommends rebuilding everything because they prefer another framework or architecture.

If part of the existing application works correctly, is secure, scalable enough for our requirements, and can be maintained, I want that taken into consideration.

Changes should be driven by actual technical or business reasons.

Automated Regression Testing

A major project I want implemented is a comprehensive automated testing system that acts like real ForgeOne users.

The goal is to automatically test critical workflows after changes instead of waiting for a human user to discover that something stopped working.

I am interested in browser-based end-to-end testing using Playwright or an equivalent framework.

Examples of workflows that should eventually be automatically tested include:

* User login
* New-user invitations
* Invitation acceptance
* Authentication
* User permissions
* Company/tenant separation
* Dashboard loading
* Navigation
* Creating jobs
* Opening existing jobs
* Editing job information
* Estimates
* Saving information and returning to it
* File uploads
* Photo uploads
* Multiple-file uploads
* Customer workflows
* Employee workflows
* Subcontractor workflows
* Notifications
* Status/workflow changes
* Mobile navigation
* Desktop navigation
* Responsive layouts
* Major CRM modules
* Third-party integration screens
* Error states
* Permission restrictions

I want a structured test environment/test company using controlled test data rather than automated testing that performs destructive actions against real customer information.

External integrations that could create real financial or operational transactions must be handled appropriately through sandbox environments, mocks, test accounts, or other safeguards.

Production Monitoring

I also want much stronger visibility into what is happening when something fails.

I am interested in implementing or improving tools such as:

* Sentry or equivalent application monitoring
* Frontend error reporting
* Backend error reporting
* API failure tracking
* Performance monitoring
* Browser console error capture
* Failed network request capture
* Deployment/version tracking
* Useful diagnostic logs
* Screenshots or traces from failed automated tests

When an automated test fails, I want enough information available that an engineer can quickly determine what happened rather than spending hours trying to reproduce an unknown problem.

AI Reliability / Diagnostic Agent

Another area I am interested in developing is an internal AI Reliability Agent.

The AI should NOT have unrestricted authority to modify production code, production databases, or customer information.

The primary purpose would be:

* Monitoring
* Testing
* Diagnosing
* Comparing failures with recent changes
* Organizing logs
* Identifying possible causes
* Generating incident summaries
* Helping prioritize issues
* Suggesting possible fixes
* Assisting engineers with investigation

For example, if an automated browser test fails while opening a job, the ideal system could collect information such as:

* Which test failed
* Expected behavior
* Actual behavior
* Screenshot
* Browser console errors
* Network/API failures
* Relevant application logs
* Deployment/version
* Recently modified files
* Potential source of regression

The AI could then help analyze that information and provide an engineer with a useful starting point.

I want AI helping engineering, not AI operating production without appropriate controls.

Experience with the OpenAI API, AI agents, LLM integrations, developer tooling, or AI-assisted diagnostics is valuable, but strong traditional software engineering experience is more important to me than someone whose primary background is prompt engineering.

Release Process

I want help developing a safer release process.

The eventual goal is something similar to:

Development/change
→ automated tests
→ code/technical review
→ staging/testing
→ approval
→ production deployment
→ production smoke tests
→ monitoring

Critical workflows should be tested before a release is considered successful.

I also want guidance on sensible rollback procedures when a production change creates a regression.

Third-Party Integrations

ForgeOne includes and is developing multiple third-party integrations.

The engineer should be comfortable reviewing and troubleshooting:

* REST APIs
* OAuth/authentication flows
* Webhooks
* API credentials
* Rate limits
* Error handling
* Retries
* Sandbox versus production environments
* Integration security
* Data synchronization
* Failure recovery

Some integrations involve construction-industry suppliers and other outside service providers, so protecting credentials and preventing unintended external transactions is extremely important.

Additional details regarding integrations and architecture can be provided to qualified candidates after appropriate confidentiality protections are in place.

Security / Multi-Tenant SaaS Experience

Multi-tenant security is extremely important.

ForgeOne supports multiple independent companies using the same SaaS platform.

I need someone who understands that authentication alone is not sufficient.

The architecture must ensure that one customer/company cannot access another company’s:

* Jobs
* Customers
* Employees
* Financial information
* Files
* Photos
* Communications
* Credentials
* Integration information
* Other tenant-specific data

Experience reviewing authorization, RBAC, tenant isolation, database access controls, API authorization, and SaaS security is highly desirable.

Who I Am Looking For

I am looking for a senior engineer who has actually supported real production SaaS applications.

Ideal experience includes several of the following:

* Senior full-stack development
* SaaS application architecture
* Multi-tenant applications
* Modern JavaScript/TypeScript development
* Modern frontend frameworks
* Backend development
* SQL/relational databases
* API development
* REST APIs
* Authentication
* Authorization
* RBAC
* Third-party integrations
* Git/GitHub
* CI/CD
* GitHub Actions or equivalent
* Playwright
* Cypress or other automated E2E testing
* Production monitoring
* Sentry or equivalent
* Cloud deployment
* SaaS security
* Performance troubleshooting
* Production incident investigation
* AI-assisted development
* OpenAI/LLM integrations
* AI agent development

Experience with CRM, ERP, field-service, construction-management, project-management, fintech, insurance, or other workflow-heavy SaaS platforms is a strong plus.

The exact technology stack and repository architecture can be discussed with shortlisted candidates rather than making assumptions in this posting.

What I Am NOT Looking For

I am not looking primarily for:

* Desktop IT support
* Help desk support
* Network administration
* Basic website development
* WordPress development
* Landing-page development
* Someone learning SaaS development for the first time
* A prompt engineer with limited traditional software engineering experience
* An agency sending a salesperson while an unknown developer actually performs the work
* Someone who immediately wants to rebuild the entire application before understanding it

I want to communicate directly with the engineer who will actually be reviewing and working on ForgeOne.

Working Style

I move quickly and appreciate clear communication.

I do not need technical terminology used simply for the sake of sounding technical.

When there is a problem, I want an engineer capable of explaining:

1. What is wrong.
2. Why it matters.
3. What caused it or what likely caused it.
4. What options we have.
5. What they recommend.
6. What could potentially be affected by the change.
7. How we test the fix.
8. How we prevent the same problem from happening again.

I value engineers who understand that the objective is not merely to make a bug disappear.

The objective is to make the product more reliable after every fix.

Engagement

This will begin as an hourly fractional engagement.

Expected initial involvement is approximately 5–10 hours per week, although hours may increase or decrease depending on the project phase.

The first major deliverable will be the technical/production-readiness assessment.

If that goes well, I would like the relationship to continue into:

* Production stabilization
* Automated regression testing
* Monitoring
* Release-process improvements
* Architecture oversight
* Security improvements
* Integration review
* Difficult production debugging
* AI Reliability Agent development
* Ongoing engineering consultation

For the right person, this could become a significant long-term role as ForgeOne grows and could potentially transition into a full-time position in the future.

When Applying

Please do not send a generic copy-and-paste proposal.

Please answer the following:

1. Describe a production SaaS application you personally worked on and what your responsibility was.
2. Have you taken over or audited an application that was developed rapidly and needed stabilization? What did you find and what did you do?
3. Describe your experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications and tenant data isolation.
4. What experience do you have with authentication, authorization, and RBAC?
5. What automated end-to-end testing tools have you used?
6. Specifically, what experience do you have with Playwright, Cypress, or similar browser automation?
7. What production monitoring/error-tracking systems have you implemented?
8. What is your experience troubleshooting difficult production regressions?
9. Have you worked with applications developed using AI-assisted coding tools?
10. Have you built AI agents or LLM-powered engineering/operations tools? If yes, briefly explain what they did.
11. If you discovered that an existing part of ForgeOne was designed differently than you personally would have designed it, how would you determine whether to leave it alone, improve it, or replace it?
12. Are you comfortable beginning with a paid technical audit before assuming broader responsibility?

Please begin your proposal with “ForgeOne Review” so I know you read the posting.

I am looking for an experienced engineer who can become a trusted independent technical resource for ForgeOne—not simply someone to complete isolated coding tickets.

Our prediction-market platform is feature-complete on both web and desktop builds and I’m ready for a fresh pair of eyes. I need a tester who can blend hands-on exploration with a solid suite of automated checks.

Here’s what I expect you to cover:
• Manual sessions that walk through every trading, funding, and settlement path, noting broken flows, confusing copy, and UI glitches.
• Automated tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright—your call) that handle regression for all critical user stories so I can run them in CI with one command.
• Security probing of login, wallet, and API endpoints to flag common vulnerabilities before launch.
• Usability feedback that turns raw observations into actionable UX tweaks.

Deliverables
1. A concise test plan outlining scenarios, data sets, and expected results.
2. Source-controlled automated test scripts with setup instructions.
3. A defect report for any issues, prioritised and reproducible.
4. A short usability & security summary with recommendations.

I’ll provide staging credentials, seed data, and documentation as soon as we start. Looking forward to seeing how you can break—and help strengthen—our market.

Skills: Testing / QA, Test Automation, Website Testing, Usability Testing, Test Plan Writing, Selenium, Automation, Regression Testing

We're a small company/startup looking for a junior full-stack developer to help with several tasks related to our web platform. The project includes both feature development and quality assurance (QA) testing on our staging environment.

Responsibilities:

Develop front-end (React) and back-end (Node.js/Express or Django REST) features
Fix bugs on an existing e-commerce or SaaS platform
Write test cases and execute manual test campaigns (UI/UX)
Write clear, structured bug reports (Excel or Word)
Bonus: experience with test automation tools (Cypress, Postman) or AI applied to development (test generation, etc.)

Skills required:

JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js/Express (or Django + Python)
MongoDB or relational databases (SQL)
Git/GitHub
Attenti

About the Role
Arborgold is looking for a mid-level QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team, testing our core web application and mobile field-service app (Crew). You'll split time between manual exploratory/regression testing and building automated test coverage in Playwright (web) and Maestro (mobile), working closely with developers to catch issues before they reach production.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys both the detective work of manual testing and the engineering discipline of writing maintainable automated tests.

What You'll Do
Execute manual test cases against new features and regression suites for Arborgold's web app (Angular/Kendo UI, staging environment) and the Crew mobile app (NativeScript + Angular, Android/iOS)
Design, write, and maintain automated end-to-end tests using Playwright (TypeScript) for the web platform
Build and maintain mobile UI automation using Maestro for the Crew app
Triage bugs found during testing, write clear reproduction steps, and file well-documented tickets in Jira
Review pull requests for testability and flag missing test coverage
Maintain and extend our locator/object-repository strategy (data-qa attributes, shared locator files) to keep tests reliable as the UI evolves
Participate in test plan creation for new features, including edge cases and regression risk areas
Help maintain CI test suites — keep smoke/regression tag coverage current, investigate and fix flaky tests
Collaborate with the existing Katalon-based automation suite where relevant, and help evolve our test strategy across tools (Playwright, Katalon, Maestro)

What We're Looking For
1–3 years of QA experience, with a mix of manual testing and hands-on automation
Working knowledge of Playwright (or a comparable modern web automation framework — Cypress, Selenium — with willingness to ramp up on Playwright quickly)
Exposure to mobile test automation (Maestro preferred; Appium or similar also relevant)
Comfortable reading and writing TypeScript/JavaScript
Strong bug-reporting instincts: clear repro steps, good judgment on severity/priority
Familiarity with Git-based workflows (branches, PRs, code review)
Ability to write and follow structured test plans and test cases
Good communication skills — you'll work directly with developers and product managers, not just file tickets and disappear

Nice to Have
Experience testing SPA (single-page application) or hash-routed web apps
Experience with Kendo UI, Angular, or other component-driven UI frameworks
Familiarity with API testing (Postman, REST Assured, or similar)
Experience with Katalon Studio or other low-code test automation tools
Experience working in a staging/shared-environment testing setup (coordinating test runs, managing shared test data)
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)

Tools You'll Use
Playwright · Maestro · Katalon · Jira · Git/GitHub · TypeScript

Senior Ecommerce & Systems Integration Development Team / Agency
Magento 2 + React/.NET + Okta SSO + Enterprise Integrations
Overview

We are a digital commerce and technology agency looking for a small senior development team, boutique agency, or highly experienced technical lead with an established supporting team to take over and support an existing enterprise ecommerce and systems-integration environment.

This is intended to become a long-term development partnership, not simply a one-project freelance engagement.

Our immediate need involves an established enterprise client with multiple connected applications and websites using technologies including:

Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce
PHP
React
.NET / C#
Okta
SSO / Identity Management
SQL
REST APIs
Third-party integrations
Linux-hosted environments
Git / GitHub

The environment has been developed over several years by multiple internal and external teams. We are replacing members of the existing engineering team and need a partner capable of taking ownership of the codebase, understanding the existing architecture, stabilizing the environment, and supporting future development.

We strongly prefer a small agency or established team that can provide multiple technical disciplines under a reasonable blended hourly rate.

What We Need

We are not looking for a large agency with layers of account management.

We want access to a small, senior technical team that can function almost like an extension of our internal delivery organization.

Ideally your team includes capabilities across:

1. Senior Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Someone capable of understanding the complete ecosystem, including:

Ecommerce
Identity management
Application architecture
APIs
Databases
Third-party applications
Authentication
Infrastructure
Deployment architecture

This person should be able to participate directly in client meetings, technical discovery, estimation, architecture discussions, troubleshooting, and technical planning.

They must also be technical enough to inspect code and assist engineers directly.

2. Senior Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce Developer

We need strong experience with:

Magento 2
Adobe Commerce
PHP
Composer
Magento modules
Magento extensions
Magento configuration
Magento APIs
Custom integrations
Authentication integrations
Magento upgrades and patching
Debugging existing Magento implementations
Third-party Magento extensions
Code quality / Magento coding standards

Experience with SSO extensions such as MiniOrange or similar technologies is valuable.

This person should be capable of inheriting an existing Magento implementation rather than requiring a greenfield project.

3. Senior React / .NET Developer

The environment also includes applications using:

React
C#
.NET 6+
REST APIs
SQL
Authentication middleware
Environment configuration
Backend integrations

We need someone comfortable debugging an existing React + .NET application and integrating it with identity and external systems.

4. Okta / Identity Integration Experience

This is extremely important.

The current environment uses Okta as the central authentication platform across multiple applications.

Your team should understand:

Okta
SSO
SAML 2.0
OpenID Connect
OAuth 2.0
Okta APIs
User provisioning
User migration
Authentication flows
Sessions
Redirect URIs
Application assignments
Groups
Roles
Claims
Custom user attributes
Password management
Identity lifecycle management
Multi-application SSO
Environment-specific Okta configuration

Our future architecture will likely go beyond simple login federation.

We need to increasingly treat the identity platform as a central source of truth for shared user information across multiple applications.

That may require:

Attribute synchronization
User lifecycle synchronization
APIs
Webhooks
Middleware
Mapping between application databases
Reconciliation processes
Role synchronization
Business-rule-driven provisioning

Experience designing CIAM or enterprise identity architectures is a major advantage.

Existing Environment

The initial project involves several enterprise websites and applications.

Examples of technologies currently involved include:

Ecommerce
Magento 2.4.x
PHP
Magento modules/extensions
Custom Magento development
Dealer / Business Applications
React
.NET 6+
SQL
Linux-hosted infrastructure
Identity
Okta
SAML
OIDC / OAuth concepts
SSO across multiple applications
Application-specific user databases
Additional Systems

Other websites and systems may use:

PHP
ASP.NET
SQL databases
Third-party vendor platforms
Vendor APIs
Custom integrations

Not every application is fully controlled by us or the client.

Some systems are operated by third-party vendors, meaning your team must be comfortable working collaboratively with outside development companies and integrating systems where direct code access may be limited.

The Immediate Technical Challenge

The environment already has SSO implemented across several applications.

The next stage is more sophisticated.

Currently, different applications can contain different pieces of information about the same user.

The client wants to move toward a model where:

Identity and shared user information can be managed centrally and synchronized across connected systems.

For example:

A user may belong to one organization or dealership and later move to another while retaining information and historical records associated with that individual.

This requires thinking beyond authentication.

We need engineers who understand:

Identity resolution
Unique user identifiers
Data ownership
Data synchronization
Application-specific records
Historical data
Role changes
Organization changes
User migrations
Conflict resolution
System-of-record architecture

You should be able to determine what belongs in Okta versus what should remain inside the individual application databases.

Systems Integration Experience

Your team should have strong experience integrating enterprise systems.

We are interested in experience with:

REST APIs
GraphQL where applicable
Webhooks
Middleware
Authentication
SQL
Data mapping
Data migration
Synchronization jobs
Event-driven architecture
Retry logic
Logging
Error handling
Reconciliation
API rate limits
Environment configuration

The ability to troubleshoot integrations built by someone else is particularly important.

Existing Codebase Takeover

This is not a greenfield engagement.

Your first responsibility will be understanding what already exists.

We will expect your technical lead to work with us through a structured transition that includes:

Repository review
Architecture review
Environment review
Codebase audit
Existing SSO review
Integration review
Deployment review
Documentation review
Open issue review
Technical-debt identification
Risk assessment

We need a team that is comfortable taking over projects developed by other engineers without immediately recommending that everything be rebuilt.

You should be able to separate:

What is working → What is fragile → What needs improvement → What actually needs replacement

Git & Engineering Workflow

Strong source-control discipline is required.

Your team should be comfortable with:

Git
GitHub
Branching strategies
Pull requests
Code review
Development environments
UAT
Staging
Production
Release management
Rollback procedures
Environment variables
Secrets management
Configuration management

Changes should be submitted through appropriate pull-request and review processes.

QA & Automated Testing

We are particularly interested in teams that can provide QA capability alongside development.

The system involves authentication across multiple applications, so regression testing is important.

We need the ability to test workflows such as:

Login
Logout
Registration
Password reset
SSO between applications
User provisioning
Account updates
Role changes
Organization changes
Session behavior
Failed authentication
Authorization
Cross-system data synchronization

Experience with automated testing using tools such as:

Playwright
Selenium
Cypress

is strongly preferred.

DevOps / Infrastructure

Your team does not necessarily need a full-time DevOps engineer, but you should have someone capable of supporting:

Linux environments
GitHub
CI/CD
Environment variables
Deployment troubleshooting
DNS
SSL
Application configuration
Development / UAT / staging / production differences
Log inspection
Secrets/configuration issues

A recurring problem in enterprise integrations is not the application code itself, but differences between environments.

Your team must be comfortable diagnosing those problems.

Client Communication

At least one member of your team must have excellent English communication skills and be comfortable participating directly in enterprise client meetings.

The technical lead should be capable of:

Running technical discovery
Asking intelligent questions
Explaining architecture
Providing estimates
Identifying risk
Presenting technical options
Explaining tradeoffs
Working with other vendors
Reviewing requirements
Creating technical documentation
Translating business requirements into engineering requirements

We do not want every technical conversation routed through a salesperson or account manager.

We want access to the people actually making the technical decisions.

Technical Estimation

Your technical lead should be capable of reviewing a request and producing:

Assumptions
Technical approach
Dependencies
Risks
Work breakdown
Estimated hours
Required skill sets
Recommended sequencing

Estimates must be defensible enough that we can incorporate them into client-facing scopes of work.

Ideal Team Structure

You do not need six full-time developers.

A strong small agency may cover several responsibilities with the same senior people.

An ideal team might look something like:

Technical Architect / Lead

Okta / IAM
Integration architecture
Technical discovery
Client communication

Magento / PHP Engineer

Magento 2
PHP
APIs
Extensions
SSO integration

React / .NET Engineer

React
C#
.NET
SQL
APIs

Integration / Data Engineer

APIs
SQL
Data migration
Synchronization
Middleware

QA / Automation

Cross-platform regression testing
Automated testing

DevOps Support

Available as needed for deployment and infrastructure troubleshooting

We are comfortable with overlapping responsibilities.

For example, your architect may also be your senior Magento developer, and your .NET developer may also handle integration development.

Agency Size

We prefer:

Boutique agencies
Small senior engineering teams
Established development partnerships

Generally, we are more interested in a 3–15 person highly technical organization than a 200-person outsourcing company.

Exceptions are welcome if you can provide a stable, dedicated senior pod.

Long-Term Opportunity

Although this engagement starts with one enterprise account, we are specifically searching for a partner who can support additional projects across our portfolio.

Our broader project environment can include:

Shopify Plus
Magento / Adobe Commerce
React
Node.js
.NET
PHP
Custom applications
ERP integrations
OMS
WMS
PIM
CRM
Payment integrations
B2B ecommerce
POS
AI applications
APIs and middleware

A team that performs well may become one of our preferred engineering partners.

This can result in consistent work across multiple clients rather than depending entirely on one project.

About the Role

We are a digital commerce and technology agency looking for a Senior Shopify Plus Solution Architect / Lead Developer to join our team on a contract basis, with the potential to develop into a long-term engagement.

This is not a standard Shopify theme-development position.

We are looking for someone who is both a strong software engineer and an experienced Shopify Plus architect — someone capable of joining an enterprise discovery call, understanding a complex business problem, determining what should and should not live inside Shopify, designing the technical solution, estimating the work, explaining it to the client, and then getting into the codebase to help build it.

You should be comfortable operating between:

Solution Architecture → Technical Discovery → Scoping → Client Communication → Hands-On Development → Code Review → Troubleshooting

We work with enterprise and mid-market ecommerce organizations involving Shopify Plus, B2B, POS, ERP integrations, payments, marketplaces, fulfillment systems, middleware, and custom applications.

What You'll Be Doing
Shopify Plus Architecture

You will help design Shopify Plus solutions across B2C, B2B, retail, and omnichannel environments.

You should be able to determine:

What should live natively inside Shopify
What requires a custom Shopify application
What should live in middleware
What belongs inside an ERP, PIM, OMS, WMS, CRM, or other platform
When a third-party Shopify app is appropriate
When custom development is justified
When Shopify is simply the wrong technical solution

We value architects who understand Shopify deeply enough to know its limitations.

Hands-On Shopify Development

This is still a highly hands-on engineering role.

You should be comfortable working directly with:

Shopify Plus
Shopify Liquid
Shopify Online Store 2.0
Shopify themes
Shopify APIs
Shopify Admin API
Storefront API
GraphQL
REST APIs
Webhooks
Custom Shopify apps
Checkout extensibility
Customer accounts
Shopify Functions
Metafields and metaobjects
Git / GitHub
JavaScript / TypeScript
Node.js
React

Experience with AWS, SQL, Vue, Svelte, Hydrogen, Remix, or similar technologies is a plus.

Shopify B2B

Strong Shopify Plus B2B experience is highly desirable.

You should understand concepts including:

Companies
Company locations
B2B customers
Customer permissions
Catalogs
Price lists
Payment terms
Buyer workflows
B2B checkout
Customer accounts
ERP synchronization
Customer/company data mapping
Sales-rep-assisted ordering

Many of our enterprise projects involve Shopify operating alongside an ERP or other system of record.

You should understand how to determine where data should be mastered and how systems should communicate with one another.

Systems Integration

A major portion of this role involves connecting Shopify to other enterprise systems.

Examples include:

ERP
CRM
PIM
OMS
WMS
3PL
POS
Payment gateways
Marketplaces
Custom applications
Inventory systems
Fulfillment platforms
Customer portals

You should understand:

API architecture
Middleware
REST and GraphQL
Webhooks
Authentication
Data mapping
Synchronization
Queues
Error handling
Retry logic
Logging
System-of-record decisions
Integration failure scenarios

You do not need experience with every ERP on the market.

You do need to understand enterprise integration architecture.

Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 or similar ERP platforms is especially valuable.

Shopify POS & Omnichannel

Experience with Shopify POS is a strong plus.

You should be comfortable discussing or architecting:

Multiple retail locations
Inventory synchronization
Inter-store transfers
Returns and exchanges
POS inventory
Online/offline customer records
Order routing
Reporting
ERP/accounting integrations
Omnichannel purchasing journeys
Payments

You should understand Shopify's payment ecosystem beyond simply configuring a gateway.

Experience discussing or implementing any of the following is valuable:

Shopify Payments
Third-party gateways
Saved payment methods
Customer payment authorization
Payment links
Checkout extensibility
PCI considerations
B2B payments
Payment terms
Refunds
Custom payment workflows
Marketplace or multi-party payment architecture
Engineering & Deployment Standards

We want someone who treats Shopify development like professional software engineering.

You should be comfortable working with:

Git-based development
Feature branches
Pull requests
Code review
Development/staging/production workflows
Automated deployments
Regression testing
QA environments
Rollback strategies
Production debugging
Logging and monitoring

Experience with automated browser testing using tools such as:

Selenium
Playwright
Cypress

is highly desirable.

We are particularly interested in engineers who have implemented automated testing around business-critical ecommerce functionality such as:

Add to Cart → Checkout → Customer Login → Product Selection → Orders

Performance Optimization

You should have strong knowledge of ecommerce performance optimization.

You should understand:

Core Web Vitals
LCP
CLS
INP
JavaScript execution
Critical CSS
Lazy loading
Third-party script overhead
Shopify app overhead
Theme architecture
Asset loading
DOM performance

We care more about real user performance and Core Web Vitals than artificially manipulating Lighthouse scores.

Theme Architecture

We are looking for someone capable of building structured, reusable Shopify theme systems rather than repeatedly writing one-off components.

Experience with:

Dawn
Custom component libraries
Tailwind CSS
Reusable Shopify sections/components
Design-system-driven development
Figma-to-component workflows

is highly desirable.

Headless Shopify

You should understand Hydrogen/headless Shopify architecture.

However, we are specifically looking for someone mature enough to recognize that headless is not automatically the right answer.

You should be able to clearly explain the tradeoffs between:

Native Shopify themes
Custom Shopify themes
Hydrogen
Headless storefronts
Custom applications
Third-party applications

and recommend the architecture that makes the most business and technical sense.

Technical Discovery & Scoping

This is one of the most important parts of the position.

You will regularly be asked to join projects before development begins.

You should be comfortable:

Running technical discovery
Asking detailed architecture questions
Reviewing existing platforms
Auditing existing code
Identifying dependencies
Finding technical risks
Creating architecture diagrams
Defining assumptions
Breaking projects into workstreams
Providing engineering estimates
Reviewing SOWs
Identifying scope creep
Evaluating alternative solutions
Explaining technical tradeoffs

You should be able to turn:

"The client wants Shopify connected to their ERP, POS, warehouses, B2B customers, and payment system."

into a clear technical architecture and defensible estimate.

Client-Facing Communication

You will interact directly with enterprise clients and their technical teams.

Strong communication skills are required.

You should be comfortable:

Leading technical discovery calls
Presenting architecture
Running technical demos
Explaining Shopify limitations
Defending estimates
Discussing technical tradeoffs
Working with third-party development teams
Working with ERP/integration teams
Participating in presales
Translating business requirements into technical requirements

You need to be able to explain complicated technology to both developers and executives.

Technical Leadership

This is a senior technical role, but we do not want someone who stopped engineering years ago.

You may be expected to:

Lead developers
Review pull requests
Review architecture
Mentor engineers
Troubleshoot difficult issues
Establish development standards
Improve engineering processes
Help unblock projects

You should still be able to personally enter the codebase and solve problems.

Ideal Experience

Strong candidates will typically have:

7+ years of professional software engineering experience
4+ years of strong Shopify / Shopify Plus experience
Experience with multiple enterprise Shopify implementations
Full lifecycle project experience from discovery through launch
Strong JavaScript / TypeScript skills
Strong Node.js experience
Strong React experience
Custom Shopify app development experience
Shopify API experience
Strong Git/GitHub knowledge
Systems integration experience
Experience estimating technical projects
Enterprise client-facing experience
Experience supporting live ecommerce platforms

Equivalent real-world experience is more important than matching an exact number of years.

Strong Plus

Experience with any of the following will make you stand out:

Shopify Plus B2B
Shopify POS
Microsoft Dynamics 365
ERP integrations
Middleware development
SQL
AWS
Data migration
Payment integrations
Marketplace architecture
OMS/WMS/3PL integrations
Magento / Adobe Commerce migrations
Performance optimization
Automated QA
CI/CD
Solution architecture
Enterprise technical presales
This Role Is Probably NOT For You If

Your Shopify experience is primarily:

Page builders
Figma-to-theme implementation
Basic Liquid changes
Installing Shopify apps
Small theme tickets
Frontend-only development

Those skills are useful, but they are not what this position is designed around.

We need someone capable of understanding the entire technical ecosystem surrounding Shopify.

Engagement

We are open to beginning with a part-time / contract engagement and expanding the relationship based on performance, availability, and project demand.

There is significant opportunity for ongoing work for the right person.

When applying, please focus on the most technically complex Shopify Plus projects you have personally architected or built, rather than providing a general list of Shopify stores.

• MongoDB with Mongoose
• REST API architecture
• Authentication using JWT, OAuth, and AWS Cognito
• WebSockets and Redis caching
• Jest unit testing
• Docker containerization
• AWS services
• ASP.NET MVC / Web API (C#)
• SQL Server
• Legacy feature maintenance and support
Frontend:
• React 17 with TypeScript
• Redux Toolkit state management
• Material-UI (MUI) component library
• CSS-in-JS (Styled Components or similar)
• Cypress for end-to-end testing
• Webpack build system
Responsibilities
• Develop new features across multiple web applications
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices
• Build responsive and reusable React components
• Work with Docker and AWS services to support deployments
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and resolve production issues
• Attend daily standups and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Maintain and update technical documentation
Must-Have Qualifications
Backend:
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Experience with NestJS or Express
• Strong understanding of MongoDB/NoSQL databases
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs
• Familiarity with JWT or OAuth authentication frameworks
Frontend:
• Minimum 3 years of experience with React and TypeScript
• Strong foundation in Redux or Redux Toolkit
• Practical experience with Material-UI or similar UI libraries
• Experience with CSS-in-JS patterns
Preferred Qualifications
• ASP.NET MVC/Web API (C#) experience
• AngularJS familiarity
• Experience with real-time WebSocket-based applications
• Exposure to microservices architecture
• Working knowledge of AWS Cognito or similar identity services

Looking for a US-Based iOS Device Farm / Appium Engineer

I am looking for an experienced US-based engineer to build a private iPhone management system for my team.

I have multiple physical iPhones and need help with:

Setting up US eSIM lines on the devices
Initial device configuration
Connecting 10+ physical iPhones to a host computer
Appium / XCUITest / WebDriverAgent setup
Building a Node.js backend
Building a web dashboard where each employee can access only their assigned iPhone
Device online/offline status
Remote device management
Scalable setup for 10–20+ iPhones

Senior QA Engineer – Automation & API Testing

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to work with our Australian client on a long-term software project.

Position Details
Role: Senior QA Engineer
Experience: 6–10 years
Location: Remote
Client Location: Australia
Engagement: Long-term opportunity
What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a hands-on Senior QA professional with strong experience in automation, API testing, and end-to-end application testing.

The ideal candidate should have:

6–10 years of experience in software quality assurance and testing.
Strong experience in API Testing using Postman/Newman.
Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices.
Strong understanding of cloud-native and event-driven architectures.
Experience testing complex system integrations.
Strong experience in Web and Mobile Application Testing.
Ability to design and implement comprehensive QA and test strategies for large-scale applications.
Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, API, automation, and end-to-end testing.
Candidates interested in working on FinTech, Banking, Payments, and Financial Services applications are highly preferred.
Experience testing banking or financial applications will be a strong advantage.
Experience with multi-tenant, multi-region, and multi-currency platforms is a plus.
Responsibilities
Design and execute comprehensive test strategies.
Perform Web and Mobile Application Testing.
Develop and maintain automated test suites.
Perform API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Test complex financial and banking workflows.
Identify, document, and track defects.
Work closely with developers, product teams, and stakeholders.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Ensure high-quality and reliable software releases.
Continuously improve QA processes and automation coverage.
Ideal Candidate

We are particularly interested in QA professionals who are looking to build their career in FinTech, Banking, Payments, and Mobile Application Testing.

The candidate should be technically strong, hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with an international team.

If you have 6–10 years of QA experience, strong expertise in Automation + API Testing, and an interest in working on FinTech, Banking, Payments, and Mobile Application projects for an Australian client, we would love to hear from you.

Please Include in Your Proposal
Total QA experience
Experience with Postman/Newman
Automation frameworks you have worked with
Web and Mobile Application Testing experience
CI/CD experience
FinTech/Banking/Payments experience, if any
Availability
Expected hourly rate

QA MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job description:
SpacePointe is seeking a QA Manager & Senior Automation Engineer to lead quality assurance across our web and mobile fintech applications. You will own both manual and automation testing for high-risk financial systems, ensuring secure, performant, and stable releases across POS, payments, and commerce platforms.
You will define and enforce QA standards, lead automation framework development, mentor QA engineers, and partner with Product, Development, and DevOps to embed quality throughout every release cycle. This is a senior, hands-on role requiring deep expertise in automation frameworks, database validation, and transaction-heavy systems.
All applicants must answer the screening questions and provide interview dates/times. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.What You’ll DoQA Strategy & Leadership
Own QA for web, mobile, and API-based fintech applications.
Define, implement, and continuously improve QA methodologies for security-sensitive systems.
Build and scale QA automation frameworks to reduce regression cycles and speed releases.
Mentor QA engineers, review test plans/scripts, and drive a quality-first culture.
Automation & Test Engineering
Architect and maintain automated frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, JMeter).
Automate RESTful API, workflow, and data validation tests across services.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
Implement performance/load testing for transaction-heavy systems.
Test Design & Execution
Write comprehensive test plans, cases, and scripts from product requirements.
Execute functional, regression, integration, UAT, exploratory, and edge-case testing.
Validate security, performance, and compliance (PCI DSS, encryption, error flows).
Own test data strategy; partner with DB teams for backend validation and data migrations.
Defect Management & Documentation
Investigate, reproduce, and report defects with clear RCA and steps.
Collaborate with Developers, DevOps, and Product to drive fast resolution.
Maintain QA documentation (results, procedures, RCAs) with version control.
Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Participate in sprint planning, retros, and daily stand-ups.
Align QA with agile cadences and continuous delivery goals.
Represent QA in release go/no-go and partner meetings.
Minimum Qualifications
6+ years in QA, including 3+ years senior/lead QA automation.
Built automation frameworks from scratch.
Strong hands-on skills: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, TestNG/JUnit, Postman, JMeter (or equivalents).
Advanced SQL for backend validation, complex queries, data-driven testing.
Experience testing RESTful APIs and integrating API tests into frameworks.
Solid SDLC, Agile/Scrum, CI/CD understanding.
Fintech/POS/core banking exposure (transaction-heavy systems).
Excellent bug documentation; Jira or similar tools.
Able to work independently in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in PCI-compliant environments.
Performance/load testing for transaction-heavy platforms.
Familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker/Kubernetes.
ISTQB or equivalent certification.
Success Metrics (KPIs)
Reduced escaped defects (production incidents).
% automation coverage on regression/critical workflows.
Average test cycle time vs. baseline.
Average defect resolution time & RCA completion.
Performance adherence under load.
Partner/Client feedback on release quality.
How We Work
Hands-on leadership: strategy + code contributions.
Shift-left QA: test early in design/dev cycles.
Metrics-driven quality: automation coverage, defect trends, performance baselines.
Collaboration-focused: close alignment with DevOps, DB, and Engineering.
Work Location: Remote

Hi 👋

We're a Saudi marketplace getting ready to launch — it connects clients with photographers and video creatives. Orders, escrow payments, deliveries, the usual.

We have a staging environment, and right now zero automated tests on it. Every time our dev team fixes one thing, something else quietly breaks and we usually find out too late. We'd like a safety net around the part that actually matters: the path from signup to payment.

Scope

One automated suite that opens a browser and walks through this journey on staging, start to finish:

signup → OTP verification → profile completion → seller creates a service → admin approves it → buyer places an order → 30% deposit payment

It should run automatically whenever there's a change, and give us a report that clearly says which step broke and why — screenshots or traces would be great. If you can also make it block the deploy on failure, even better. English only for now; we may add Arabic later. Please open your proposal with the word KEYSTONE so we know you read this — we get a lot of copy-paste applications and it saves us both some time.

About you

You've built E2E suites before (Playwright, Cypress, whatever you prefer), and you've tested a payment flow at least once. If you hold ISTQB or similar, mention it — nice to have, not required. A link to something you've actually built matters more to us.

Three quick questions

Our OTP arrives by SMS. Does that mean signup can't be automated? How would you handle it?
How do you test a payment gateway in CI, repeatedly, without spending real money?
What do you anchor your selectors on so that a small UI change doesn't break the whole suite?

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What we'd like from you

Your own estimate of how many hours this takes, your price, and a realistic timeline. If you think we've scoped this wrong, tell us — we'd rather hear it now.

We'll provide staging access, test accounts for all roles, and payment sandbox credentials.

Next step

If it looks like a fit, we'll have a short 20-minute call to talk through your experience before we start. Nothing formal — just want to make sure we're a good match.

Looking forward to reading yours 🙌

QA Automation Engineer for Web Application

We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer to help test and automate quality assurance for our web application.

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain automated test scripts.
- Perform functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Identify, report, and track bugs.
- Work closely with developers to ensure high-quality releases.
- Improve the overall testing process and test coverage.

Requirements

- Proven experience in QA automation for web applications.
- Strong knowledge of Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar automation tools.
- Experience with API testing (Postman or similar).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred:

- Experience with Python or JavaScript-based automation frameworks.
- Experience testing responsive and cross-browser web applications.

Please include examples of automation frameworks or projects you've worked on in your proposal.

Project Overview

I own a private school transportation company called Cypress Children's Transport. I already have concept artwork that I absolutely love. I am not looking for someone to create a new concept from scratch. Instead, I need a professional graphic designer to recreate these concepts into fully editable, production-ready files that can be professionally printed.
The final designs should have a clean, modern, premium, family-friendly look with consistent branding across all materials.

What You'll Receive
I will provide:
Multiple concept mockups showing the exact style I want
Current company logo
Company colors
Company website
Company contact information
Brand messaging
Your job is to recreate these concepts into high-quality professional files while keeping the same overall aesthetic.

Deliverables
Phase 1 (Highest Priority)
33" × 81" Retractable Banner
Double-Sided Flyer (8.5" × 11")
Tabletop Sign (8.5" × 11")
QR Code Sign
Open House Poster
Clean
Premium
Family-Friendly
Corporate
Easy to read
Professional

Consistent across all materials
Please avoid:
Cartoon graphics
Clip art
Busy layouts
Cheap-looking templates

Brand Colors
Primary colors:
Teal
Orange
White
Accent colors may be used sparingly if needed, but the overall look should remain bright and clean.

File Requirements
Final files must include:
Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
Editable PDF
SVG
EPS
High-resolution PNG
JPG
Print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks
Editable Canva version (preferred)

We’re an AI-native venture studio building and launching web-based AI products. We need a Manual QA Tester who can test the complete product—not only the interface, but also the APIs, backend behavior, data flow, and AI-generated results.

This is a QA-first role. Full-stack engineering experience is strongly preferred because we want someone who can inspect code, diagnose likely root causes, and potentially fix smaller issues.

What you’ll do:

- Manually test AI-powered web applications across desktop and mobile browsers.
- Test complete user journeys, including registration, authentication, forms, reports, payments, permissions, and account states.
- Test frontend behavior, responsive layouts, accessibility, loading states, error messages, and overall usability.
- Test backend APIs, request and response data, authentication, validation, timeouts, rate limits, and failure handling.
- Validate data across the browser, API, and database when access is provided.
- Red-team AI and LLM functionality for hallucinations, fabricated facts, unsupported claims, prompt injection, inconsistent results, bias, and unsafe output.
- Verify that AI-generated claims, scores, sources, and recommendations are supported by evidence.
- Test low-data and ambiguous cases where the AI should admit uncertainty instead of inventing an answer.
- Create and maintain test cases, regression checklists, and launch-readiness reports.
- Report bugs with severity, reproducible steps, expected versus actual behavior, screenshots or recordings, logs, and relevant network requests.
- Retest fixes and provide a clear launch recommendation: ready, conditionally ready, or not ready.

Required qualifications

- At least 3 years of hands-on manual QA or software testing experience.
- Experience testing modern web applications from end to end.
Strong understanding of functional, exploratory, regression, integration, usability, and negative testing.
- Ability to test REST APIs using Postman, Insomnia, curl, or similar tools.
- Confidence using browser developer tools, including the console, network panel, storage, cookies, and request inspection.
- Ability to write concise bug reports that developers can reproduce without additional explanation.
- Experience testing responsive behavior across multiple browsers and screen sizes.
- Strong written English and reliable communication.
- Comfortable working independently in fast-moving, pre-launch environments.

Strongly preferred

- Direct experience testing AI, generative AI, agents, RAG systems, or LLM-powered products.
- Understanding of hallucinations, non-deterministic outputs, context limits, retrieval failures, prompt injection, and model fallbacks.
- Full-stack engineering experience with frontend and backend systems.
- Ability to read or troubleshoot HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, and serverless applications.
- Experience tracing a frontend defect through an API request to the likely backend cause.
- Ability to implement small, well-scoped fixes and submit them through Git and pull requests.
- Experience with Cloudflare, serverless functions, databases, authentication, payments, or third-party AI APIs.
- Familiarity with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or another automation framework.
- Accessibility testing knowledge, including WCAG.

What success looks like

- You will help us catch failures that ordinary UI testing misses: plausible-but-wrong AI answers, unsupported claims, silent backend failures, inconsistent scoring, entitlement problems, exposed credentials, broken mobile flows, and errors that appear to users as successful results.
- We care more about judgment and prioritization than the total number of bugs reported.

How to apply

- Start your proposal with the word LAUNCH to show you've read through the requirements. Submit a response to these questions, we are limited on time and need to do a deep pre-screen, followed by a short introductory video call to the candidate we select.
1. What have you personally delivered? Provide two relevant AI or LLM products you personally tested.
For each, include:
- Product or redacted project description
- Models or AI providers involved
- Frontend, backend, API, database, and mobile responsibilities
- What you personally discovered or improved
- A URL, test plan, bug report, Loom, PR, or redacted work sample (Do not send only a company name or list of responsibilities)
2. Walk us through your end-to-end process from receiving an unfamiliar pre-launch product to issuing a final go/no-go recommendation. Include a sample of the deliverables we would receive.
3. What AI failure have you personally found that normal QA would miss and how did you fix it?
4. How would you test an AI feature that produces different answers for the same input? Explain your exact methodology for determining whether it passes or fails.
5. Describe a defect you traced from the frontend through an API or backend service.
6. How would you test our complete launch flow?
7. Which tools and technologies can you test or troubleshoot?
8. . Can you make small code fixes? If yes, share your GitHub, portfolio, or a relevant example. **We will not select a candidate who can't show previous work, projects, client recommendations or references**
9. What are your hourly rate, timezone, weekly availability, and earliest start date?

If NDA prevents naming a client, anonymize the client but explain your personal contribution precisely.

**Generic proposals that do not answer these questions will not be considered.**

Required:
1. Past work/projects, Linkedin Profile, any customer references/recommendations.
2. NDA will be required before accessing confidential products.

We have multiple products in development and many more ideas in the pipeline. This will begin as a paid trial so we can evaluate your work and how well we collaborate. If successful, we plan to hire you on an ongoing, project-by-project basis.

Preferred Testing Tools & Experience

Applicants should indicate which testing platforms, software, and services they currently have experience using and whether they have active access to them.

Please include experience with any of the following (if applicable):

Browser & Device Testing
BrowserStack
Sauce Labs
LambdaTest
CrossBrowserTesting (if previously used)
Automated Testing
Playwright
Cypress
Selenium
QA Wolf
Katalon Studio
Usability Testing
UserTesting
Userfeel
Maze
Hotjar
API Testing
Postman
Insomnia
Performance Testing
Lighthouse
JMeter
k6
Security Testing
OWASP ZAP
Burp Suite
Payment Testing
Stripe Sandbox
PayPal Sandbox
Other payment gateway sandbox environments
Bug Tracking
Jira
GitHub Issues
GitLab
Azure DevOps
Trello
ClickUp

For each tool, please indicate:

Years of experience
Whether you currently have access to the tool
Whether you can provide your own licensed account or would require GigResource to supply one
Your level of proficiency (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert)

Skills: Testing / QA, Software Testing, Test Automation, Website Testing, Usability Testing, Selenium, API Testing, JMeter

Remote, US-Based Only. We’re hiring a pragmatic Full-Stack Product Engineer to own vertical slices of customer products across React/Next.js and Node.js/Fastify, with Prisma and PostgreSQL.

A key part of this role is intentional prototyping, paired with close collaboration with Product / Project Managers.

We build custom software for real operational environments. That means we often start with fast, focused prototypes to validate workflows, reduce risk, and learn quickly alongside customers and our Product/Project partners. Once the business intent and requirements solidify, we harden it into production-grade software.

We are also intentionally leaning into AI as a force multiplier. You’ll use AI agents to accelerate specification, implementation, and testing — not as a shortcut, but as leverage to move faster while maintaining quality.

You’ll move fluidly between:
- Rapid experimentation
- Clear scoping and refinement with Product/Project Managers
- Production-quality implementation

This is not throwaway prototyping. It’s structured learning that leads to durable systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Own vertical feature slices end-to-end across React/Next.js (TypeScript), Node.js/Fastify APIs, and Postgres via Prisma, partnering closely with Product/Project Managers from concept through delivery
- Rapidly prototype workflows and UI flows in collaboration with Product/Project Managers to validate direction with customers
- Convert validated prototypes into hardened, production-ready features
- Establish and expand automated testing (API + UI) and wire it into CI
- Work closely with Product/Project Managers to translate messy user workflows into well-scoped tickets with crisp acceptance criteria
- Perform click testing to map real user journeys and identify gaps
- Triage, reproduce, fix, and close production issues with clear updates
- Design migrations, optimize queries, and steward the data model
- Reduce toil via automation (ETL, recurring jobs, tooling improvements)
- Use AI agents to accelerate specs, code generation, and testing — with judgment

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
- Experience building full-stack JS/TS products
- Solid API design (auth, pagination, error handling, rate limiting)
- Strong React/Next.js and Node experience
- Comfortable with TypeScript, Fastify, Prisma, Postgres
- Experience with automated testing (API + UI) and CI/CD
- Comfortable owning tickets and features end-to-end while maintaining tight collaboration with Product/Project Managers
- Clear, concise communicator

You should enjoy:
- Turning ambiguity into clarity
- Moving fast early, then tightening things up
- Shipping vertical slices that actually work
- Improving systems while working inside them
- Using AI as leverage — not a crutch


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Azure (App Service, Functions, container apps)
- Docker basics
- ETL pipelines / data migrations
- Supporting production systems
-Speaking directly with customers when needed
- Leapwork, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent
- AI-powered features (RAG, embeddings, evaluation loops)
- Observability (metrics, logs, traces)

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT:
You won’t just be handed tickets.

You will:
- Prototype deliberately
- Validate with customers
- Productionize what works
- Own meaningful slices of real products

We’re building custom systems in an AI-accelerated world. The right person will be excited by both the speed of experimentation and the responsibility of making things solid.

WHO WE ARE:
Valorian builds intelligent systems for industrial operations by integrating data, systems, and AI—designed around how work actually gets done in the field.

We combine deep industry business-process expertise with modern technology to deliver clarity across the full execution lifecycle: planned work, its readiness for safe execution, real-time performance in the field, outcomes at completion, and variance between plan and execution so teams can continuously learn and improve.

CORE VALUES:
- Trustworthy: Committed to building long-term trust by showing up with an authentic high-level of care and taking ownership of outcomes, behaviors, and work product.
- Resourceful: Leverages curiosity, ingenuity, creativity, and innovation to accomplish goals; thinks long term, and is focused on sustainable results.
- Passionate: Brings infectious energy, passion, and care for what we do and who we work with.
- Balanced: Strives for harmony in faith, family, health, fun, and energy.
- Connected: Committed to meaningful communication and healthy conflict through listening, transparency, and the courage to receive and give feedback.

INTERESTED?
If you’re excited about building real products, growing your skills, and helping define what modern development looks like in practice, we’d love to talk.

Work is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and pre-engagement drug screening, in accordance with applicable law.

We're looking for a senior QA Automation Engineer with a proven track record of introducing automated testing into engineering organizations from the ground up. This is a hands-on role for someone who has successfully designed and implemented scalable end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks, integrated them into CI/CD pipelines, and established QA best practices that engineering teams actively adopt. You'll work closely with our engineering department to define the overall testing strategy, build reliable and maintainable automation using modern tools such as Playwright or Cypress, leverage AI to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and debugging, and help create a culture where quality is built into the development process. We're only interested in candidates who have done this successfully before and can demonstrate measurable results, including examples of automation frameworks they've built, organizations they've helped transform, and the impact their work had on product quality and engineering velocity.