Senior QA Engineer (B2B Contract)

Contract: B2B until 31 December 2026 possible extension
Location: Remote you must be based within 80km of Iași Cluj-Napoca or Bucharest
Hours: UK hours 9am to 5pm UK time
Start date: ASAP

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy and certified B Corp with 20 years of experience. We need a senior QA engineer to join one of our client projects.

• Check that data sent to a new search platform matches whats expected

• Test API integrations to make sure the right data is sent and received

• Investigate slow API responses and find ways to improve performance

• Extend the Playwright test suite to cover the new search features

• Oversee quality across frequent fixes and releases

• Strong senior QA experience

• Hands-on API testing data validation and performance testing

• Experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks ideally Playwright

• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills

• Comfortable querying databases such as MySQL

• Experience in agile teams with frequent releases and hotfixes

• The confidence to push back challenge decisions and explain why testing matters

• Fluent English written and spoken

• Couchbase or other NoSQL databases

• Experience with search platforms such as Algolia Elasticsearch or Constructor

This is a remote role but you must live within 80km of Iași Cluj-Napoca or Bucharest to be considered.

Youll need to work UK hours 9am to 5pm UK time. Thats 11am to 7pm in Romania.

This role starts as soon as possible so we can only consider people who are available now or at very short notice.