Quality Assurance Analyst

About Shine

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.

Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal and Belgium.

Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

Your role as a Quality Assurance Analyst

We are hiring a QA based in Porto that specialises in Cypress and Pest4 (Playwright) that will be responsible for our automation strategies and testing frameworks whilst ensuring the software quality for all of our applications, identifying bugs, verify that application features work and help improve the overall user experience by testing functionality, performance and usability.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive QA strategies focused on automation, test plans, cases and scripts.

• Build and maintain scalable, efficient testing frameworks using Cypress and Playwright/Pest4 for front-end and back-end services.

• Identify, document and triage bugs; define quality metrics and coverage, track defects and update on release.

• Contribute to the continued improvement of testing processes and quality standards.

• Support release testing and provide quality reports before deployment.

• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to clarify requirements and improve product quality.

• Strong hands-on experience with Cypress.

• Proficiency in modern testing frameworks such as Playwright or PEST.

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.

• Experience testing REST APIs.

• Typically 3–5 years of QA experience.

• Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Knowledge of Agile or Scrum development methodologies

• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB Foundation Level are beneficial

• Analytical and proactive, with a full understanding of the development life cycle.

• Professional proficiency in Portuguese and English is essential

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our recruitment process

1️⃣ Initial call (30 min) with a Recruiting Partner

2️⃣ Interview with hiring manager (45-60 min)

3️⃣ Case study interview + personality and logic assessment feedback