Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Assume responsibility for ensuring quality across intricate features and product domains within Web, Android, and Flutter applications.

• Develop testing strategies that take into account technical complexity, customer impact, risk factors, and system architecture.

• Execute exploratory, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across interconnected systems.

• Detect edge cases, potential failure modes, and risks prior to deployment in production.

• Lead the investigation of challenging bugs and production issues spanning frontend, mobile, backend, infrastructure, and third-party integrations.

• Examine application logs, network traffic, API requests, database information, monitoring signals, and source code to pinpoint root causes.

• Replicate complex or sporadic issues and present clear technical findings.

• Develop scripts, utilities, or debugging tools to expedite investigation and troubleshooting processes.

• Design, construct, and sustain end-to-end and integration automation utilizing Playwright, Maestro, or Appium.

• Enhance automation architecture, reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and CI/CD quality checks.

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers during planning and technical design phases to identify risks early on.

• Question ambiguous requirements, assumptions, and implementation choices that may introduce quality risks.

• Articulate trade-offs and facilitate informed release decisions.

• Work alongside Support and customer-facing teams regarding reported issues.

• Refine test documentation, defect reporting, release validation, incident analysis, and quality metrics.

• Establish scalable testing practices and advocate for shared engineering accountability for quality.

• Share expertise, offer technical guidance, and assist less-experienced QA engineers in developing testing and debugging competencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Engineering in Test, or a similarly technical software quality position.

• Extensive experience testing intricate web and mobile applications that involve multiple interconnected services.

• Proficient in advanced exploratory testing and risk-analysis methodologies.

• Strong background in investigating production issues utilizing logs, APIs, databases, monitoring tools, and other technical indicators.

• Practical experience with automated testing frameworks and methodologies.

• Solid programming and debugging capabilities; comfortable reading, comprehending, and navigating production codebases.

• Capability to develop automation, debugging utilities, scripts, data-analysis tools, or other engineering support tools.

• Comprehensive understanding of APIs, distributed systems, client-server architecture, and data flows among services.

• Strong grasp of the complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

• Familiarity with defect tracking systems and test management practices.

• Awareness of software security and privacy considerations, including authentication, authorization, data handling, access control, and common OWASP risks.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical matters to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with mapping, GPS/location systems, real-time applications, or transportation technology is a valuable asset, though not mandatory.

• Familiarity with relevant technologies such as React, TypeScript, REST APIs, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Android, Flutter, Playwright, Maestro, Appium, Datadog, Sentry, Google Cloud Platform, Proxyman, Redis, Firebase Firestore, Postman, OWASP, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile software development methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Professional development opportunities and training programs.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.

• Generous paid time off and holiday leave.