Senior Quality Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Plan and implement manual testing for new features, bug fixes, integrations, and existing functionalities across web, mobile, media players, and related platforms.

• Conduct functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, and integration testing.

• Reproduce, investigate, document, and communicate defects with detailed technical clarity.

• Collaborate with software engineers and product managers to clarify requirements, validate fixes, identify risks, and enhance product quality.

• Engage in release-readiness discussions to assess whether functionality is prepared for delivery.

• Oversee testing tasks and larger quality initiatives from the planning stage to completion.

• Monitor progress, maintain test cases and documentation, and communicate status, risks, blockers, and coverage.

• Determine when manual testing is suitable and when automation offers greater benefits.

• Assess automation opportunities based on product risk, repeatability, execution frequency, maintenance cost, and anticipated return.

• Design, implement, maintain, and execute targeted automated tests for stable, high-value scenarios.

• Utilize AI models and tools to support exploratory testing, generate test ideas and scenarios, validate software changes, and identify potential regressions.

• Apply human judgment to findings generated by AI.

• Identify enhancements to testing processes, tools, documentation, and team practices.

• Explore new testing technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, or a related field.

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related area, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred.

• Strong expertise in conducting manual testing of web applications, services, APIs, mobile applications, or connected devices.

• Proven ability to make informed decisions regarding manual testing versus test automation.

• Experience in creating clear, actionable defect reports and collaborating with engineers through triage and resolution.

• Experience in an Agile, cross-functional software development environment.

• Familiarity with defect tracking and test management tools like Jira or TestRail.

• Experience with at least one test automation tool or framework, such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.

• Working knowledge of web technologies and software delivery concepts, including HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, APIs, browsers, and device-based testing.

• Extensive experience using AI models and tools to aid in software testing, exploratory analysis, defect investigation, test data generation, change validation, or regression detection is preferred.

• Experience integrating AI-assisted quality controls into CI/CD pipelines or other development workflows is preferred.

• Experience enhancing test strategies, selectively introducing automation, or establishing quality practices for a small engineering team is preferred.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution is preferred.

• Experience testing streaming, media, audio, messaging, SaaS, or other distributed applications is preferred.

• Experience testing media players, connected devices, mobile applications, or hardware/software integrations is preferred.

• Candidates must be located in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Group Medical.

• Dental.

• Vision.

• Life insurance.

• Retirement Savings Program.

• PSL.

• Remote work / telecommuting 100% of the time.