Qa Engineer

## About the role At Slick, we're transforming how salons and barbers run their businesses. Our smart booking platform and digital partner help industry professionals manage bookings, clients, and payments seamlessly. While 65% of salons still rely on pen and paper, we're bringing the beauty industry online - the way taxis, hotels, and restaurants already are. Since launching in 2019, over 1,000 UK salons have used Slick to take 10+ million bookings, backed by partnerships with L'Oréal, Meta, and Stripe. We're looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to help us level up quality across our products. We're a growing team of 9 engineers and 3 PMs. With strong backend coverage already in place, we're looking for a QA expert to lead structure, ownership, and automation as we scale our web and upcoming mobile app. You'll be joining our growing team as the second QA - shaping process, introducing automation, and keeping our releases rock solid. ## Responsibilities - Own regression and release testing for web + mobile - Build and maintain Playwright automation suites - Design and run manual tests for new features - Work with PMs and developers to make sure everything is testable and stable - Collaborate with PMs to understand the user and product objectives - Investigate escalated bugs, using tools like Sentry to identify root causes and support production debugging. - Advocate for best practices and improve our overall QA discipline - Track and communicate test coverage, risks, and defects clearly across the team ## Requirements - 4+ years in QA or software testing - Familiar with API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools - Strong experience in automation (Playwright, etc.) - Comfortable testing integrations with third-party APIs (Stripe, Intercom, Twilio, etc) - Collaborative mindset - comfortable working with PMs, developers, and designers - Willing to do manual testing as well (roughly 60% automation, 40% manual) ## Nice to have - Experience with performance/load testing, Datadog, Sentry - Familiarity with CI/CD tools - Exposure to mobile app testing and frameworks - Experience with booking/calendar management projects - Experience working on React and Javascript - Experience working on native mobile app (IOS/Android) testing ## What we offer You'll define how we do QA, own automation from day one, and work with a collaborative team that values quality and transparency - with the opportunity to shape and scale the QA function as we grow. ## About the company We're growing fast - but we've deliberately kept the startup energy that made us exciting in the first place. At Slick, you'll find a team that's: - Scrappy by design: We move fast, iterate quickly, and give you real ownership. You won't be boxed into process for process' sake. - Built for senior talent: No pointless 1:1s or micromanagement. We hire people we trust to take initiative, make decisions, and ship. - Autonomy-first: You'll have the space to propose ideas, solve meaningful problems, and actually see your work make an impact. - Remote by default: Work where you're most productive. We care about outcomes, not where your desk is. - Globally diverse: Our fully remote setup means you'll collaborate with a strong, international tech team bringing different perspectives to the table. 📍 UK-based (remote or hybrid).