LATAM Principal QA Automation Engineer

Why Praxent? We get it. You have options. Let us tell you why we’re different. Our work is changing the world of financial services. Everyday, clients arrive with big ideas for their industry. They’re experts in their field with the vision and resources you need to change everything. All that’s left is the right team to bring that vision to life. If you’re a fast learner and you love working on a wide variety of projects, you’re going to like it here. We help our clients modernize, rather than rebuild, outdated customer-facing software applications. Our clients see a return within weeks instead of months and that’s why they choose us.  At Praxent, we let you do your work your way. We’re a team of 170+ located throughout the United States and Central/South America. Our role is to encourage you, support you, and give you the freedom you need to thrive. Whether you’re working at home, in a coffee shop, or heck, even on your travels, we’re here to create an environment that lets you live your best life. On your terms. We trust our people to be their best. It’s a level of autonomy and respect that’s helped us grow a diverse and brilliant team of experts . Experts who also happen to be some of the best colleagues you’ve ever worked alongside .  This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Team members may live in the following locations: El Salvador, Mexico, or Colombia As part of our hiring process, the first step will be a introductory conversation with an AI-powered recruiter. This helps us ensure an efficient, fair, and consistent experience for all candidates before moving forward to human-led interviews. Working with AI at Praxent We're not looking for someone who can use an AI assistant. We're looking for someone who has rebuilt how they work around one, where Claude Code is a daily partner rather than a tab you open when you're stuck. Building agents is our forward deployed work. This role is a different thing: being a real 10x developer with an agentic coding harness, and running the full software lifecycle through it. The engineers who do their best work here own the craft of agentic development. They write the skills, slash commands, and rules files that make a codebase agent-friendly. They treat context engineering as a core skill, deciding what the model sees, in what order, and what to leave out. They've built consistent, repeatable workflows that drive reliably toward high-quality results, including knowing which model to reach for and when. They understand an agentic coding harness well enough to refine it, not just run it. And they manage the SDLC end to end through agentic practices: planning, implementation, test-first review, and the discipline that keeps agent-generated work from quietly piling up risk. We expect you to write your test cases before the prompt, and to push back on patterns that look productive in a demo but fall apart in a real codebase. The judgment we're hiring for isn't "can you prompt." It's knowing what to let the agent drive, what to own yourself, and how to tell the difference under a deadline. If you've reorganized your own workflow around these tools and can say specifically what changed, that's the conversation we want to have. Your Mission : Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout a portfolio of projects. Reflect and instill the core values to example and leadership. Ensure Success: Provide end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects to ensure successful delivery within budget; ensure that best practices and standards are followed by all team members across all projects Advance Capabilities: Continuously research and experiment with new tools and frameworks that create more value for client engagements; provide research, development and improvement of the already established processes, best practices, documentation and resources for all teams within the organization in regards to all the aspects of quality assurance Give Feedback: Communicate expectations throughout the project team and manage escalations promptly and thoroughly; provide a growth and development structure to team members as well as objectives that align their individual performance and organizational goals. Set Standards: Develop standards for testing and reporting, analyze portfolio of testing metrics to advance our capabilities, research and implement new tools and processes. Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting; assist with optimizing the process to ensure quality recruiting.  Eliminate Ambiguity: Develop detailed testing strategies that build confidence with the agile team and client stakeholders, including technical planning, rigorous subtasking, advance research, contingency plans, release criteria, etc. Your Day-to-Day: Key Activities: Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria, tracking daily progress, limit team’s QA kickback, deliver stories as assigned, find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity. How a Current Praxenter Describes The Role: “I spend a lot of the sprint planning and delegating technical work for other devs, anticipating how to deliver as much value for the client via efficiency and tech debt prevention. This has the added benefit of allow assigned devs to grow technically while also reducing as many unknowns as possible in the cone of uncertainty. It’s my job to keep in sync with delivery leads on priorities, team allocation, risks, etc, as well as act as the technical interface for the client to help guide them without overloading them with technical jargon.” Your Qualifications: Technical Proficiency : demonstrable