ProWritingAid
Software Engineer in Test
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Our Mission
At ProWritingAid, we give storytellers the power to craft their stories and bring them to life. Writing is one of the most transformative tools for personal and professional growth. We build the essential digital toolkit that works across every writing app, supporting millions of writers from the beginning to The End.
We are a 100% remote team across more than ten countries. Built on day-one trust, sustainable growth, and zero VC pressure, we focus on team happiness and autonomy so everyone can deliver their best work.
The Quest Ahead
We are seeking an experienced SDET to join one of our cross-functional teams and champion quality across our entire SaaS ecosystem including web applications, browser extensions, add-ins, and native desktop tools for Windows and Mac.
You won't just write scripts; you will act as a guardian of the user experience. You are deeply skilled in manual and exploratory testing, comfortable defining clear acceptance criteria alongside developers and product managers, and passionate about maintaining robust test automation in TypeScript and Playwright.
How you craft impact
- Define Acceptance Criteria: Partner with cross-functional teammates during product discovery and planning to map out clear test scenarios, strategies, and coverage matrices.
- Protect the Craft: Conduct exploratory, functional, regression, usability, and performance testing to uncover edge cases and maintain product reliability.
- Automate with Purpose: Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable automated test suites and frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Champion Quality: Coach teammates, advocate for testing best practices at every stage of the product lifecycle, and foster a culture where quality is a shared art.
- Optimise Performance: Analyse system stability, identify bottlenecks in our AI and language engines, and collaborate with developers to keep our tools lightning-fast.
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What you bring to the fellowship
- Proven QA Experience: Hands-on mastery of manual, exploratory, regression, and usability testing.
- Strong Automation & Coding: Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript with strong experience building test automation suites. (We use Playwright, but strong experience in Selenium or Cypress transfers well). *note - during interview, you will be expected to write a new Playwright test without AI assistance
- Cross-Browser & Web Mastery: Deep familiarity with web applications, extensions, and core web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS).
- Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal skill to turn complex requirements into clear testable criteria, triage defects, and influence engineering standards beyond your immediate work.
- Bonus Skills: Experience with C#/.NET, testing non-deterministic AI/LLM-powered features, desktop apps, CI/CD pipelines, API testing (Postman), or load/security testing.
We’re looking for a hero
You are the hero we’re looking for if you are a creative writer yourself. Whether you're secretly drafting a novel, writing short fiction, or obsessing over world-building, your personal passion for craft gives you deep empathy for the storytellers using our tools.
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Why you will love writing this chapter with us
- Remote/flexible working: You can work from wherever (and whenever) you are happiest. The company is UK-registered, but we have employees in more than 10 countries.
- Clever people/hard problems: You will work with some of the most talented people in our industry. Language processing is one of the hardest problems in AI so there are plenty of unsolved issues for you to get stuck into. Our projects require innovation and creativity, not your regular "done that, repeat" stuff.
- Make a difference: You get to work on a real-world problem and make a positive impact on wordsmiths around the world. Our users love the product, but there’s still a lot we can do.
- A small but agile company: ProWritingAid is a fast-growing, yet nimble company, so your work is always delivered to our users and has a visible impact.
- Competitive package: We always pay you what you're really worth (range depending on experience).
- Annual meet up somewhere fun: Every year we bring the full company together to plan, learn and play!
We’re an equal-opportunity employer genuinely committed to building a diverse team, and to fostering the type of inclusive environment in which diversity thrives. “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”― Walter Lippmann
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