Senior Quality Engineer
Newfire Global Partners
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $105,000 - $130,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain test plans, test cases, and test reports based on product requirements.
- Perform functional, regression, usability, exploratory, and cross-platform testing on web applications.
- Conduct API testing, database validation, and backend/server behavior verification.
- Validate bug fixes, ensure regression coverage, and maintain product stability across releases.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to review requirements and define acceptance criteria.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, and other agile ceremonies.
- Align with developers during sprints to ensure adequate test coverage and fast feedback loops.
- Review and refine test strategies to optimize test coverage and quality.
- Contribute to QA processes, standards, and best practices.
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend new tools, techniques, or approaches to improve testing efficiency and accuracy.
- Stay current with industry trends and evolving QA methodologies.
- Mentor and support other QA engineers to ensure consistency and quality across teams.
- Share knowledge and contribute to team growth and development.
- Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced Agile environment while maintaining a strong focus on quality.
- Promote a culture of quality ownership and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on testing experience in testing of web applications, preferably in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience in fast-paced development cycles with short iterations and frequent releases.
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, testing life cycles, and formal testing processes.
- Proficient in writing test matrices, test plans, test cases, and test reports that are traceable to requirements.
- Expertise in functional testing, API testing, and database validation.
- Experience using debugging and network tools such as Charles Proxy, Fiddler, Postman, Wireshark, or equivalent.
- Ability to evaluate and implement new testing tools and techniques.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with sharp attention to detail.
- Analyze server logs and system behavior to identify issues and root causes.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Proven experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams.
- Experience mentoring peers and junior QA engineers, and contributing to QA strategy and team development.
- Demonstrated ability to influence quality initiatives and advocate for process improvement.
- Positive, team-oriented mindset with strong initiative and leadership qualities
Benefits
- Remote-first environment with company provided computer
- Thirteen paid holidays per year (average)
- Medical, dental and vision coverage with multiple levels of coverage
- HSA, FSA and Dependent Care accounts
- Short-term and Long-term disability
- Life and accidental death insurance
- Discounted voluntary benefits, such as additional life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible vacation time
- 401(k) with employer matching and immediate vesting
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
test planstest casestest reportsfunctional testingAPI testingdatabase validationregression testingusability testingexploratory testingAgile methodologies
Soft skills
analytical skillscritical thinkingattention to detailoral communicationwritten communicationteam-oriented mindsetleadership qualitiesmentoringcollaborationprocess improvement