Senior Quality Engineer

Noda

Senior Quality Engineer managing the quality function and test automation framework at NODA AI in Austin. Driving quality metrics for Core Engineering and ensuring compliance.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the test automation framework across Rust and Python, covering unit, integration, regression, and scenario-level testing.
Integrate test suites into CI/CD with enforced gates at every stage, including security checks (SAST, dependency scanning, vulnerability).
Enforce NODA's compliance boundary so CUI and export-controlled data never reach clean-zone or vendor-accessible test paths.
Drive build quality metrics: coverage, flake rate, false positive rate, and mean time to detect and triage.
Maintain a component-level quality dashboard feeding into the program-level go/no-go view for engineering and program leadership.
Own go/no-go checklists and issue release recommendations backed by functional, security, and compliance evidence.
Triage failures before routing, giving engineers a diagnosis rather than a symptom.
Keep the test suite healthy: review cadence, deprecation of stale tests, and coverage gap identification.
Translate quality state into language that drives release decisions at leadership level.
Grow the QE function under Core Engineering as headcount scales.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years in software QE, with a track record of building test infrastructure, not inheriting it.
Engineering fundamentals to match: test code is production quality, test harnesses are maintained like products.
Python required; Rust or a clear plan to get there.
Hands-on CI/CD integration: you've built the gates, debugged the flakes, and enforced the blocks.
Owned quality dashboards and metrics that drive go/no-go decisions.
Fluent in distributed and concurrent systems and how they fail.
Integrated security testing into CI/CD (SAST, dependency scanning, compliance validation aligned to NIST 800-171 or equivalent).
Designed test infrastructure that respects security boundaries and vendor guardrails while supporting restricted core components.
Background in defence, robotics, aerospace, or autonomous systems.
US Citizenship with ability to obtain a security clearance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and equity
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Free OneMedical membership
401(k)
Flexible time off
Federal holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

test automationRustPythonCI/CDSASTdependency scanningvulnerability assessmentquality metricstest infrastructuresecurity testing

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationdiagnostic skillsproblem-solvingorganizational skills

Certifications

NIST 800-171 compliance