Bestow

Senior Quality Engineer

Bestow

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $134,000 - $156,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Champion and institutionalize practices such as Definition of Ready, Example Mapping, Specification by Example, and Spec-Driven Development.
  • Actively contribute to API and UI automation disciplines.
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Program Management, Customer Success, and the Senior Manager of Quality Engineering to establish foundational behaviors that enable long-term quality maturity, automation excellence, regulatory traceability, and future AI-enablement.
  • Lead and facilitate Definition of Ready (DoR) workshops.
  • Conduct Example Mapping and Specification by Example sessions.
  • Convert ambiguous requirements into structured, testable specifications.
  • Establish shared vocabulary and ubiquitous language across teams.
  • Create reusable facilitation templates, examples, and playbooks.
  • Coach Product Managers and Engineers on behavior-focused acceptance criteria.
  • Embed Spec-Driven Development (SSD) practices within backlog refinement workflows.
  • Design and implement API test strategies aligned to structured specifications.
  • Contribute to RESTful API testing using contract validation and schema enforcement.
  • Improve test data management and environment stability practices.
  • Ensure requirements-to-test traceability (RTM) is maintained and auditable.
  • Advocate for deterministic, parallelizable, locally executable tests.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering roles.
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating structured requirements practices (DoR, Example Mapping, BDD, or Specification by Example).
  • Strong API testing expertise (REST, schema validation, contract testing).
  • Proficient in UI automation disciplines.
  • Experience contributing to test framework architecture or shared utilities.
  • Clear understanding of CI/CD validation workflows.
  • Experience maintaining requirements-to-test traceability.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Coaching and facilitation expertise.
  • Ability to influence without formal authority.
  • Systems-thinking mindset.
  • History of progressively expanded responsibility.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity based on role
  • Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
  • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
  • Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
  • Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
  • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
API testingUI automationRESTful APIschema validationcontract testingtest framework architectureCI/CD validationrequirements-to-test traceabilitySpecification by ExampleDefinition of Ready
Soft Skills
strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationcoachingfacilitationinfluence without authoritysystems-thinkingcollaborationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving