Senior QA Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be the primary driver of our quality execution, identifying the right balance between robust automation and startup velocity. You’ll own the technical evolution of our testing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while working hands-on within our product teams. You are a pragmatic expert who values ROI over perfection and is ready to take ownership of how we build and ship reliable software as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine and execute the quality strategy: You will identify the right balance for our current stage, ensuring high quality without introducing bottlenecks like "test-for-everything" automation coverage. You will proactively evolve our approach, knowing exactly when it is time to apply more robust processes as the company grows.
• Technical Ownership: You’ll own the technical side of testing—evolving our automation framework, keeping our CI/CD pipelines fast, and designing strategies for test data management. You will integrate AI-powered solutions into our workflow to automate repetitive tasks and improve test reliability, ensuring we maintain a high delivery velocity.
• Drive quality within product teams: You’ll work directly with two of our product teams as the primary driver for all testing efforts. You will collaborate with developers to ensure quality is a shared responsibility and get involved early in the design phase to spot potential issues before they become tickets.
• Mentor and Support: You will guide and support a Junior QA colleague as part of our QA team of two. You’ll help them sharpen their technical skills and build the confidence to act as an authority on quality within their team, taking responsibility for their technical growth and the quality of their output.
• Provide visibility into what matters: You’ll define which metrics we should observe to maintain a clear picture of our quality. You will pinpoint codebase "hotspots" and highlight testing gaps, ensuring the team knows exactly where to prioritize attention to mitigate risk.

Skills

• Automation, CI/CD & AI: You have a deep background in building automation frameworks for UI and APIs. You know how to integrate quality into the CI/CD pipeline and leverage AI tools to accelerate test creation and maintenance so the process remains fast and reliable. Our current tech stack includes Typescript, Playwright, k6, and Github Actions.
• Driving Process Improvement: You have the ability to identify better ways of working and get the team on board. You know how to introduce new tools or improvements organically, ensuring they add real value without adding unnecessary friction.
• Universal Player: You don’t stay "in the box" of a QA role. Whether it’s jumping into the code to fix a bug, talking to customers to understand a pain point, or helping a dev debug a local environment, you do what is needed to move the needle.
• Pragmatic Risk-Taker: You are driven by ROI, not perfection. You understand that "won't fix" is a valid decision when there is a bigger opportunity elsewhere, and you are comfortable making trade-offs to keep delivery speed high.
• Identifying the Right Problems: You are highly proactive. You don’t wait for a list of tasks; you look at our processes and systems, find the biggest bottlenecks or risks, and decide which ones are worth solving first.
• Technical Mentorship: You enjoy being a "multiplier." You support and level up your junior colleague and enjoy partnering with developers to help them own quality and share testing best practices.

Nice to Have

• You have experience in a high-growth startup where you had to build or pivot quality strategies on the fly.
• You have a background in performance testing, security testing, or observability tools.
• You are comfortable working with data and SQL to investigate issues or validate complex data-driven features.
• You have experience with "Infrastructure as Code" or helping manage the environments where tests actually run.
• You have a strong product sense and can challenge requirements before a single line of code is written.