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.

What you'll do

• Check that data sent to a new search platform matches what's 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

What we're looking for

• 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

Nice to have

• Couchbase or other NoSQL databases

• Experience with search platforms such as Algolia, Elasticsearch or Constructor

Location

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

Working hours

You'll need to work UK hours, 9am to 5pm UK time. That's 11am to 7pm in Romania.

Start date

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