Looking for a QA Engineer| Remote Role

Crest Advisory Group LLC
Remote

Core Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain robust Playwright end-to-end, integration, and UI regression test suites.
- Architect scalable automated testing frameworks aligned to our monorepo structure (pnpm workspaces).
- Validate Next.js 15 UI flows including server components, client components, Suspense, streaming, and App Router navigation.
- Verify data flows across React Query, Redux Toolkit, and form validation through React Hook Form + Zod.
- Partner with engineering to tighten CI gatekeeping, PR quality controls, and test coverage requirements.
- Execute cross-browser/device testing at scale.
- Own test data strategy, mocking tools, and stability of automation pipelines.
- Collaborate with backend teams to validate API contracts, schema changes, Prisma models, and NestJS endpoints.
- Stress test real-time experiences (Socket.io) and job-driven workflows (BullMQ).
- Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement across teams.

What We’re Looking For:
- Deep expertise in Playwright for UI, API, and E2E automation.
- Strong experience validating complex React/Next.js applications.
- Comfortable testing server components, App Router, streaming, Suspense boundaries.
- Solid TypeScript 5.7 chops with strict typing.
- Familiar with shadcn/ui, Tailwind 4 utilities, and modern component patterns.
- Experience validating React Query state, caching behavior, optimistic updates, and cross-tab sync.
- Hands-on with Redux Toolkit for UI state workflows.
- Strong understanding of authentication flows using NextAuth.js (sessions, JWT, role-based access).
- Familiarity with API validation and schema-first backends using NestJS 10, Prisma 6, and OpenAPI 3.0. 
- Ability to test real-time and async features: Socket.io, Redis, BullMQ.