Senior Quality Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer (Embedded, Continuous Delivery) with 10+ years of experience in software quality and testing to join a product‑focused engineering organization. This role is designed for a quality professional who operates inside delivery teams, influencing design, development, and operations to ensure high‑quality outcomes at speed.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in testing strategy, automation, and risk assessment, and understands how quality is built into software through tight collaboration, fast feedback, and shared ownership across engineering, product, and operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead quality strategy, test planning, design, execution, and reporting for complex, distributed systems
Operate as an embedded quality specialist within a product‑aligned team, partnering daily with developers, product managers, and operations
Influence quality early by participating in refinement, design discussions, and architectural decisions
Enable shift‑left quality practices, ensuring testing, validation, and risk analysis happen continuously—not just at the end of a sprint
Leverage AI‑assisted tools where appropriate to accelerate analysis, reduce manual effort, and improve quality feedback loops, while applying sound judgment to validate and contextualize outputs
Analyze business and technical requirements and provide clear, pragmatic estimates of quality effort and risk
Identify, design, and maintain test scenarios suitable for automation at multiple levels (API, integration, UI)
Collaborate closely with developers to identify defects early, provide high‑signal reproduction steps, and validate fixes quickly
Proactively surface quality, reliability, and delivery risks and communicate them clearly to the team and stakeholders
Track defect trends and quality signals, using them to guide improvements in both testing strategy and engineering practices
Ensure quality standards are maintained throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, including deployment and production monitoring
Contribute to continuous improvement of quality practices, tooling, and team ways of working

Qualifications and Characteristics:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of experience in software quality engineering or testing roles
Strong experience working in Agile, iterative delivery environments with cross‑functional teams
Demonstrated ability to lead quality efforts without acting as a gatekeeper
Proven experience collaborating with Product Managers to shape requirements into effective quality strategies
Deep understanding of quality considerations in Cloud‑based and SaaS environments
Hands‑on experience with multiple forms of testing: functional, regression, exploratory, performance, and reliability
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and systems‑thinking skills
Ability to work independently while remaining highly collaborative within a team
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence without authority

Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have Experience:

API testing and automation experience
Test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Postman/Newman, or similar
Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery workflows
Familiarity with GitLab or similar DevOps platforms
Experience working in teams where engineers build, deploy, and support what they ship
Experience using—or a strong interest in exploring—AI‑assisted capabilities to optimize quality engineering work, with an understanding of where human judgment and deterministic validation remain essential
Experience using production signals (monitoring, logs, metrics) to inform quality strategy
Familiarity with defect tracking and test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, or equivalents
BI or data‑driven application testing experience
EHS domain experience is a plus