Quality Assurance Engineer
San Antonio,
United States
About Zelifcam
Zelifcam is a full-service technology partner with over 20 years of experience building software solutions that solve real, complex problems for real organizations. Based in San Antonio, Texas, we specialize in translating difficult requirements into intuitive, high-performing software — and we do it across industries where the stakes are high and the details matter.
Our US-based team works with businesses of all sizes, from lean startups to large enterprises, across real estate, manufacturing, medical, legal, and IT. No two clients are the same. No two problems are either.
We operate on clarity, collaboration, and transparency — because precise communication is what separates good software from great software.
Position Overview
At Zelifcam, we build custom software for clients across industries, which means no two projects are the same and no two workflows are identical.
We're looking for a QA engineer who thrives in that kind of environment — someone who brings relentless attention to detail and genuine technical curiosity to every test cycle. This is not a click-through-the-UI role. It is a role for someone who wants to understand the system deeply, find its failure points methodically, and build the kind of expertise that makes them the most trusted voice on release readiness.
About Our Work
At Zelifcam, you will work across the full spectrum of software delivery — from greenfield custom builds to legacy system support — which means the technical challenges are always varied and never shallow. Our services span desktop, web, and mobile development, manual and automated quality assurance, and project management built around collaborative, iterative workflows.
You will touch projects in real estate, manufacturing, medical, legal, and IT, working alongside a team that takes craftsmanship seriously. If you are the kind of person who wants to go deep on problems and come out the other side knowing the system better than anyone else in the room — this is the environment for that.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Running manual functional, regression, and smoke tests on web apps and APIs with disciplined, reproducible methodology
- Filing defect reports that tell a complete story: clear steps, expected versus actual behavior, screenshots, logs, and context — all in GitLab
- Maintaining test cases, checklists, and lightweight test plans that evolve with the codebase
- Tracking fixes from report to verified closure — you own the loop
- Collaborating directly with developers and PMs to sharpen acceptance criteria and data setups before testing begins
- Growing into automation at your own pace: Playwright E2E first, then integration and unit tests across languages with mentorship support
- Working inside GitLab workflows the same way devs do — merge requests, code reviews (including test code), and CI pipeline checks
Required Qualifications
- Laser focus on detail and a disciplined, systematic approach to testing
- Crisp written communication and documentation habits that require no cleanup from others
- Solid grasp of web fundamentals: HTTP, REST APIs, browser mechanics
- Comfortable with Git and GitLab basics — branches, merge requests, basic CI concepts
- Able to read code and write simple tests in at least one language
Preferred Qualification
- Experience with Playwright, Jest, Pytest, JUnit, or comparable test frameworks
- JavaScript or TypeScript experience for Playwright automation (and genuine curiosity to pick up other team languages)
- API testing exposure via Postman, curl, or similar tooling
- Awareness of accessibility standards and cross-browser edge cases
What We Offer
Zelifcam is a small, US-based custom software agency. Small means your work has direct, visible impact. It also means the pace is real, the variety is constant, and the problems are never the same twice.
Compensation & Benefits
Full-time position with competitive salary, 401(k), PTO, and health benefits after 90 days.
Growth
You will work across stacks, frameworks, and industries. You are encouraged to learn continuously and empowered to recommend new tools when you have a case for them.
Autonomy
You will work across stacks, frameworks, and industries. You are encouraged to learn continuously and empowered to recommend new tools when you have a case for them.
Team
High autonomy, clear communication, collaborative culture. The kind of environment where your technical opinion is taken seriously and your thoroughness is genuinely valued — not treated as a personality quirk.
Profile We're Looking For
You notice things other people walk past. Not because you were told to look — because you genuinely cannot help it. You are methodical by default. Your bug reports are clean, your steps are reproducible, and your documentation is the kind other people actually reference. You self-analyze before you ask for clarification, and when you do ask, your questions are precise.
You are comfortable with pressure and shifting priorities. A production issue mid-project does not rattle you — it focuses you. You can juggle multiple workstreams without losing the thread on any of them, and you hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone around you would think to ask for. You are impatient with ambiguity that could be resolved with investigation, and you have the technical instinct to go investigate it yourself. You poke at systems. You try the edge case that is not in the spec. You find the thing that was not on anyone's list.
At the same time, you value structure. Your best work happens inside a defined process — not because you need to be told what to do, but because a solid testing framework is what separates meaningful coverage from random clicking. You build systems and then work them hard.
