QA Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Conduct a comprehensive audit of the existing QA setup across ARBI, Athena, frontend flows, backend services, APIs, data workflows, integrations, AI pipelines, and release processes.

• Establish a company-wide QA strategy focusing on short-term stabilization, mid-term automation, and long-term quality engineering maturity.

• Design a scalable testing architecture based on test pyramid principles, including shift-left testing, smoke testing, regression testing, release gates, exploratory testing, and risk-based coverage.

• Clearly define QA responsibilities among developers, QA, product, design, customer success, and release owners.

• Create a practical quality operating rhythm encompassing test plans, release checklists, defect triage, severity definitions, sign-off workflows, and quality metrics.

• Validate implementations against requirements, designs, copy, acceptance criteria, user stories, and customer-specific workflows.

• Test UI, UX, business logic, responsiveness, edge cases, error states, empty states, loading states, accessibility, and validation messages.

• Conduct exploratory, smoke, regression, and release-candidate testing prior to launches.

• Validate recruiter workflows such as candidate search, matching, scoring, resume parsing, outreach sequencing, scheduling, recruiter dashboards, candidate profiles, and ATS/CRM-style workflows.

• Validate Athena workflows, including resume support, interview preparation, rubric-based feedback, candidate assistance, AI-generated recommendations, and user-facing guidance.

• Take ownership of automated frontend, API, integration, and end-to-end test coverage using tools like Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, Postman/Newman, or equivalent.

• Develop reliable automated regression suites for critical ARBI and Athena workflows, covering authentication, permissions, candidate pipelines, analytics, notifications, integrations, and admin experiences.

• Integrate tests thoroughly into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring failures are visible, actionable, and connected to release confidence.

• Enhance test reliability, execution speed, data setup, fixture management, and maintainability.

• Validate robust REST APIs, Python/FastAPI services, backend business logic, asynchronous workflows, and data-processing pipelines.

• Establish API and integration test coverage for imports, exports, webhooks, permissions, search, scoring, candidate data, customer-specific configurations, and workflow automation.

• Produce clear, structured, reproducible bug reports that include screenshots/videos, environment details, severity, expected behavior, actual behavior, impact, and reproduction steps.

• Retest resolved issues, confirm root-cause fixes, and prevent regressions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Software Test Engineering, or a related product-quality role.

• Background in testing SaaS web products, B2B platforms, workflow systems, data-intensive applications, or AI-driven products.

• Strong manual QA skills including exploratory testing, edge-case identification, cross-browser validation, responsive web testing, clear bug reporting, and release sign-off.

• Practical experience with automated testing tools such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Pytest, Postman/Newman, RESTAssured, or similar.

• Proficient in backend engineering, particularly with Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Celery, Temporal, containers, AWS services, and deployment pipelines.

• Experience in validating large-scale datasets, data pipelines, integrations, asynchronous workflows, search/indexing behavior, and workflow automation.

• Familiarity with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines while enhancing reliability, speed, observability, and developer feedback loops.

• Strong systems thinking, sound quality architecture judgment, and the capability to transition from ambiguity to a clear QA roadmap.

• Ability to function effectively in startup-style environments characterized by high ownership, speed, accountability, and mentoring responsibilities.

• Willingness to relocate to the Northern VA / Washington, DC area or work closely with the team during Eastern Time business hours if working remotely.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, PTO, and support for professional growth initiatives.

• Assistance for relevant courses, conferences, certifications, technical books, and quality engineering communities.

• Remote-first / hybrid working flexibility with a strong preference for alignment with the Northern VA / DC area and occasional in-person collaboration.