Senior QA Automation Engineer

This role is located in Budapest, Hungary - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week. Tulip , the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.

A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel. ” About You You are a Senior QA Engineer who operates at the intersection of deep product expertise and scalable automation engineering. You bring a systems mindset to quality - not just finding bugs, but designing the frameworks and feedback loops that prevent them at scale.

You’re energized by ownership: leading cross-functional quality initiatives, mentoring teammates, and making deliberate technical choices that raise the bar across the engineering organization. You embrace AI-powered tooling not as a buzzword, but as a practical lever for accelerating coverage and reducing toil. What skills do I need?

4-7+ years of QA experience with a balanced blend of manual testing and automation. Hands-on expertise with Cypress and TypeScript/JavaScript automation frameworks. , Postman) and ideally automating API tests.

Strong exploratory/manual testing skills for complex SaaS products. Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. , Mabl, Momentic, Rainforest QA, or LLM-based assistants such as Claude) to improve testing quality, efficiency, or coverage.

, driving alignment between QA and engineering without direct authority).

Nice To Have

: Experience designing or implementing performance/load testing strategies. Exposure to other automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium) or languages (Python). Interest in IoT technologies or embedded systems.

, intelligent failure triage, anomaly detection, or AI-assisted code review for test suites.

Key Responsibilities

Automation framework ownership Own and evolve Tulip’s Cypress + TypeScript E2E automation framework, driving expanded coverage across critical product surfaces. Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to deliver fast, reliable feedback loops for engineering teams. Research and implement load and performance testing strategies to ensure system reliability at scale.

AI-powered quality Apply AI-assisted tools to accelerate test generation, triage failures, and improve overall coverage velocity. Identify opportunities to use AI beyond test creation — including intelligent failure analysis, anomaly detection, and AI-assisted code review for test suites. Execute exploratory, regression, and manual tests on new features to build domain expertise and validate automation coverage.

Technical leadership cross-functional impact Mentor QA teammates by promoting automation best practices, leading test plan reviews, and improving quality visibility across the organization. Lead cross-functional quality initiatives by coordinating with engineers across product teams, aligning on testing strategy, and driving projects from scoping through delivery.