Software Test Engineer – QA
The Mechanical Licensing Collective
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own the testing strategy for the Matching Platform, ensuring consistent validation across workflows, APIs, integrations, and user-facing components.
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites in Python, establishing and evolving the team’s testing framework.
- Perform manual and exploratory testing before work is considered complete, validating complex workflows, identifying defects, edge cases, unintended behaviors, and deviations from business rules.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product stakeholders during story refinement and development to ensure features are testable and clearly defined.
- Define and maintain QA standards and testing practices within the Matching Team, contributing to regression coverage as the platform evolves.
- Investigate and document defects clearly, working with developers to resolve issues prior to ticket completion.
Requirements
- Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering within a software engineering team.
- Strong experience designing and implementing automated tests; able to write and maintain production-quality testing code.
- Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing in complex systems; able to validate behavior against business rules.
- Experience testing APIs and workflow-heavy or data-driven systems; proficient in SQL; experience working within AWS environments.
- Experience testing machine learning or probabilistic systems, building testing frameworks from scratch, or working with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow is a plus.
- Strong attention to detail, clear documentation skills, and effective collaboration within Agile, cross-functional teams.
- Working proficiency in Python, familiarity with other languages is a plus.
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Hard Skills & Tools
automated testingmanual testingexploratory testingtesting frameworksPythonSQLAPI testingmachine learning testingdata-driven systems testingworkflow testing
Soft Skills
attention to detaildocumentation skillscollaborationAgile methodology