Senior QA Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive test plans for software and hardware in loop product features.
• Identify test scenarios, test cases, and test data to ensure test coverage for new and existing features. 
• Maintaining test cases and scripts in the Test Management System. Analyze test results and investigate test escapes to identify root causes and provide detailed reports. 
• Triage test execution failures, identify gaps between existing tests and the automation framework, and implement solutions to ensure a highly reliable and performant system.
• Design and execute performance and scale testing, security testing, and user experience testing as requirements demand.
• Create a test automation strategy and build out the automation framework to enable high development velocity. 
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to execute and report automated tests, ensuring seamless integration with deployment processes and that test infrastructure is maintainable and scalable within a dynamic CI/CD environment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for software engineers on best practices for building and enhancing test suites for their code, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, SREs, product managers, and operations, to validate end-to-end functionality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, and related fields. 
• 7+ years of experience in a quality assurance role, delivering high quality, reliable products to market. 
• 3+ years of demonstrable experience designing automation frameworks and developing test automation software and tools.
• Demonstrable experience leading QA projects and initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience in QA of products that have hardware as part of the overall solution.
• Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes, and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, JIRA, STLC, and Test Management tools like TestRail, ALM or Zephyr.
• Experience with automation frameworks or tools, like Karate, Selenium, Request, HttpRunner,  TESTNG, or Fiddler. 
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and how they relate to QA automation. 
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Familiarity with performance, security, and accessibility testing. 
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, technical aptitude, attention to detail, must be self-motivated, willing to learn new concepts, technologies and products quickly. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, highly detail-oriented.
• Familiarity with ETL testing, data quality frameworks, and advanced SQL is a PLUS.
• Coding skills: experience with Python