QA Automation Engineer (Hybrid)

## About the Role Granter is building an AI agent that handles grants end-to-end. The AI Grant Consultant helps companies discover funding opportunities, draft stronger proposals faster, and manage funded projects after approval. Our mission is to enable businesses of all sizes to leverage incentives to grow and innovate. We are deeply involved in the Portuguese startup ecosystem and were the winners of the Web Summit Pitch Competition 2025. We are now looking for a QA Automation Engineer to own quality across our product. You will be responsible for quality across the product. That means understanding how the system works end-to-end, validating new features, identifying risks early, and building the systems that ensure quality over time. You will start hands-on. The goal is to progressively automate the parts that matter most. Quality engineering is being reinvented by AI, from how tests are written to how failures are understood. This role has real space to explore new approaches to testing, such as evaluations (e.g. LLM-as-a-Judge). Prior AI experience isn't required, but curiosity and a willingness to learn are. ## What This Role Involves - You sit with the product team and are responsible for quality across the platform - You work closely with engineering and product, understanding both the technical and customer perspective - You identify bugs, inconsistencies, and edge cases early, before they reach users - Define what should be tested, how, and at what level (manual, automated, or both) - Build and evolve automated tests for high-value and repetitive workflows - Build automated evaluations for AI features where relevant - Proactively review product behavior to detect recurring risks and improve overall reliability ## What We Are Looking For ### Experience - 4+ years of experience in QA, Quality Engineering, or a similar role - Proven track record building and maintaining automated test suites on real products ### Core Skills - Experience writing and maintaining automated tests - Hands-on experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, pytest, Postman, or similar - Comfortable scripting in Python - Comfortable debugging issues across frontend, backend, and APIs - Solid understanding of CI/CD and how testing fits into it - Ability to identify where something breaks, why it breaks, and how to communicate it clearly ### Additional Plus - Experience working in a startup environment - Familiarity with LLM-based features or AI systems - Exposure to AI tools in testing or DevOps - Exposure to evaluation frameworks (e.g. structured evals, LLM-as-a-Judge) ### Communication - Clear and direct communicator - Able to document issues clearly and make them easy to act on - Fluent in English and Portuguese ### Mindset - High standards and a strong sense of ownership - Strong structured thinking and problem solving - Perseverance to go deep and do the work required to get things right - Curiosity about how AI systems work ## How We Like to Work We aim to build a team of high-agency builders - people who take initiative, move problems forward, and don't wait for permission to improve things. You'll likely do well here if you: - Take ownership - Focus on outcomes, not just outputs - Move ideas forward quickly through testing and iteration - Communicate clearly and give direct, no-B.S. feedback - Collaborate effectively across disciplines - Stay comfortable operating in ambiguity - Are curious about AI and how technology reshapes work Granter is still early in its journey, and we are serious about creating an environment where things get built. People here tend to befriend each other and often stay engaged with the team beyond the strict boundaries of work. We regularly spend time together through team activities and startup ecosystem events. ## Location Requirement This role requires physical presence in Lisbon. Please do not apply if you are not currently based near Lisbon. ## About the Company Granter is building an AI agent that handles grants end-to-end. The AI Grant Consultant helps companies discover funding opportunities, draft stronger proposals faster, and manage funded projects after approval. Our mission is to enable businesses of all sizes to leverage incentives to grow and innovate. We are deeply involved in the Portuguese startup ecosystem and were the winners of the Web Summit Pitch Competition 2025.