QA Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +10 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance agents that create test coverage, identify failures, and oversee system monitoring.

• Take full ownership of quality from start to finish, encompassing test strategy, automated coverage, exploratory testing, live system monitoring, and making decisions regarding release readiness.

• Create test plans for features prior to their implementation.

• Evaluate test suites generated by agents and confirm that assertions validate the expected behavior.

• Conduct exploratory testing to uncover unspecified edge cases.

• Enhance agent harnesses to minimize flaky waits.

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, including those specific to staging.

• Document the causes of failures, test plans, failures, and sign-offs.

• Investigate root causes and rectify broken QA processes.

• Work autonomously from project initiation to completion and escalate issues promptly.

• Communicate proactively and assist junior QA engineers with testing platforms and procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in QA or test automation within an Agile environment.

• Practical experience in constructing test automation frameworks.

• Proficiency in API testing using Python with pytest, unittest, or similar frameworks.

• Experience in UI testing utilizing Cypress and TypeScript.

• Familiarity with stable selectors and dependable page objects.

• Proven use of AI development tools and coding assistants for creating, reviewing, or maintaining tests.

• Ability to critically assess AI-generated output.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.

• Skills in exploratory testing.

• Experience with Docker and containerized environments.

• Proficient in Git and contemporary version control workflows.

• Familiarity with API tools such as Postman or curl.

• Practical experience with AWS services in testing or deployment contexts.

• Knowledge of requirement traceability, boundary value analysis, application stability, and usability testing.

• Strong written communication skills.

• Capability to work independently in a deadline-oriented environment.

• Willingness to mentor junior QA engineers.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with agent building, evaluating LLM output, AI-assisted codebase testing, observability, Kubernetes, performance/load/security testing, remote-first asynchronous culture, email or marketing SaaS, web platforms, backend services at scale, and familiarity with Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Strong culture that promotes flexibility, entrepreneurial spirit, and collaboration.

• Comprehensive company-sponsored PPO medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Benefits available for spouses and domestic partners.

• 4 to 7 weeks of paid time off and holidays, depending on tenure.

• A 4-week paid sabbatical based on tenure.

• 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% company match.

• Company profit sharing.

• Stipend for home office equipment and internet expenses.

• Tuition reimbursement, as well as opportunities for conferences and learning.

• Gym membership reimbursement.

• Company-paid short-term disability insurance.

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Additional supplemental benefits including long-term disability, critical illness, and extra life insurance.