Senior QA Engineer
Civix
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Baton Rouge • Louisiana • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Engage in story development and backlog refinement sessions with the customer and dev team to define clear, testable acceptance criteria (ACs) early.
- Use risk-based testing to prioritize test coverage where it matters most.
- Design and maintain test plans and cases for manual and automated testing across dev, UAT, and production environments.
- Balance exploratory and usability testing with automation, reflecting agile best practices.
- Define and expand an automation strategy that handles regression, API, performance, and accessibility tests.
- Drive continuous testing as part of CI/CD pipelines—supporting frequent, reliable validation.
- Track and report key quality metrics—defect density, automation coverage, MTTR, leakages, and test execution trends.
- Use these insights to iterate on the QA process, tools, and strategic direction.
- Ensure traceability from requirements through to validation (verification & validation alignment).
- Help mitigate miscommunication risks between evolving requirements and QA testing scope.
- Participate in sprint planning, refining, and retrospectives to adjust QA approach iteratively.
- Mentor junior QA staff and help expand QA capabilities within the customer team.
- Act as the QA champion within an embedded agile environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of QA experience, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Expertise in automated testing frameworks and manual exploratory testing.
- Experience with agile methodologies, CI/CD, and modern QA metrics.
- Strong communicator with ability to work in embedded, customer-facing roles.
- A background in mentoring or leading QA teams is highly preferred.
- Experience in elections is highly preferred.
- Must be able to be onsite in Baton Rouge, LA five days a week.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
automated testing frameworksmanual testingrisk-based testingtest planstest casesCI/CDagile methodologiesQA metricsregression testingAPI testing
Soft skills
strong communicatormentoringleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycustomer-facing skillsiterative approachquality assurance championteam expansion