Senior QA Automation Engineer

Makai Labs

Senior QA Engineer managing the QA lifecycle and ensuring product quality at Makai. Performing functional and regression testing while mentoring team members and advocating for quality.

Posted 6/17/2026contractRemote • California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $53 - $58 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CypressJavaScriptMySQLPostgresPythonSDLCSeleniumSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

End-to-End Quality Ownership: Manage the entire QA lifecycle - from analyzing requirements and user stories for testability, to designing test strategies and checklists, executing tests, and reporting on release readiness.
In-Depth Functional & Regression Testing: Perform through manual functional, integration, regression, compatibility, and exploratory testing to ensure the highest quality of every release.
API & Backend Testing: Conduct extensive API testing using tools like Postman and validate complex business logic by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure data integrity and backend functionality.
Defect Management: Identify, document, isolate, and track bugs with a high level of detail and clarity throughout their lifecycle. Work closely with developers to facilitate resolution and verify fixes.
Process Advocacy & Improvement: Champion quality best practices, provide meaningful feedback on requirements during grooming sessions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our QA processes, tools, and methodologies.
Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Proactively share knowledge and best practices, help fellow team members enhance their testing skills, an contribute to a strong, company-wide culture of quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional QA Experience, with a proven track record in testing complex web applications.
Expertise in Modern QA methodologies, test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis), and mastery of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (STLC) within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
Proficiency in database testing: Practical experience writing complex SQL queries to validate backend behavior, ensure data integrity, and perform data/setup/teardown for test scenarios in relational databases (e.g SQServer, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Foundational test automation experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium
Ability to read and understand code in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python to support test analysis and future automation initiatives.
Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and a methodical approach to testing.
Fluent English (written and spoken)
Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with Developers, Product Owners and QA Team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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SaaS Makai Labs is a technology company that utilizes advanced AI to address operational and strategic challenges for businesses. Through enterprise automation, product design and development, and market intelligence, Makai helps organizations enhance productivity, streamline operations, and empower employees to work more efficiently alongside AI. Founded by MIT alumni, their focus is on creating AI-driven solutions that complement human capabilities rather than replace them, making sure that automation delivers a significant return on investment and improves the overall quality of work. Senior QA Automation Engineer Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 1 minute ago 🏄 California, New Jersey, +3 more states – Remote 💵 $53 - $58 / hour ⏳ Contract/Temporary 🟠 Senior ⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
End-to-End Quality Ownership: Manage the entire QA lifecycle - from analyzing requirements and user stories for testability, to designing test strategies and checklists, executing tests, and reporting on release readiness.
In-Depth Functional & Regression Testing: Perform through manual functional, integration, regression, compatibility, and exploratory testing to ensure the highest quality of every release.
API & Backend Testing: Conduct extensive API testing using tools like Postman and validate complex business logic by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure data integrity and backend functionality.
Defect Management: Identify, document, isolate, and track bugs with a high level of detail and clarity throughout their lifecycle. Work closely with developers to facilitate resolution and verify fixes.
Process Advocacy & Improvement: Champion quality best practices, provide meaningful feedback on requirements during grooming sessions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our QA processes, tools, and methodologies.
Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Proactively share knowledge and best practices, help fellow team members enhance their testing skills, an contribute to a strong, company-wide culture of quality. 🎯 Requirements
5+ years of professional QA Experience, with a proven track record in testing complex web applications.
Expertise in Modern QA methodologies, test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis), and mastery of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (STLC) within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
Proficiency in database testing: Practical experience writing complex SQL queries to validate backend behavior, ensure data integrity, and perform data/setup/teardown for test scenarios in relational databases (e.g SQServer, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Foundational test automation experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium
Ability to read and understand code in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python to support test analysis and future automation initiatives.
Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and a methodical approach to testing.
Fluent English (written and spoken)
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Hard Skills & Tools

QA methodologiestest design techniquesSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Testing Life Cycle (STLC)SQLtest automationJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonAPI testing

Soft Skills

analytical skillsattention to detailmethodical approachcommunication skillscollaboration skillsmentorshipknowledge sharingprocess advocacyfeedback provisioncontinuous improvement