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Senior QA Automation Engineer (PHP) B2B Contract

Hedgehog Lab


Job Location:

Sofia - Bulgaria

Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 18 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 16 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior QA Automation Engineer (PHP) - B2B Contract

This is an initial 3 to 6 month contract starting as soon as possible.

Youll embed into one of our product squads as its quality engineer alongside a tech lead a principal engineer three full-stack engineers and a platform engineer. Youll be the squads quality lead owning test coverage automation and validation standards for everything it ships.

Day to day youll write and maintain automated tests shape the squads test approach help manage releases and improve how we deploy.

This is a capacity role alongside an established permanent team so youll need to be productive quickly without a long ramp.

The platform

This is a large-scale marketplace. Very few platforms handle a product catalogue or transaction volume at this level.

It runs on PHP and Laravel today.

The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows built into the platform retail media integrated directly into the marketplace and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume. Much of this is being attempted at volumes rarely tested in a marketplace before so the work leans research-led rather than routine.

Who this suits

A fast-paced environment where the ground shifts. Youll do well if youre comfortable with ambiguity and can hold a standard while things move around you.

Location and basis

Contractors engage on a B2B basis.

Fully flexible working: home office or a mix your call. We just ask that youre based within one of these areas:

  • Bulgaria: within 80km of Sofia

Applications from outside these areas wont be considered.

What we need

The essentials:

  • 4 years in manual and automated testing

  • Solid PHP experience

  • Confident across automated testing and can build maintain and extend test frameworks

  • Hands-on experience with Cypress

  • Comfortable working in English written and spoken


Also needed:

  • Working understanding of OOP principles and design patterns

  • Good knowledge of CI/CD systems

  • Experience with test reporting tools and services

Ready to apply

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