Whisk

Senior Quality Engineer

Whisk

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

About the role

  • Own the quality approach within your squad, defining testing strategy based on product risk, system complexity, and delivery goals
  • Drive quality upstream by working closely with Product and Engineering during scoping and refinement to ensure requirements are testable and well-defined
  • Enable teams to own testing by guiding engineers in designing and implementing automated tests across different layers and ensuring testing is integrated into development workflows
  • Shape how automation is implemented by defining testing patterns, boundaries, and contracts, ensuring automation is structured and maintainable
  • Contribute hands-on where needed through exploratory testing in complex or high-risk areas and closing critical gaps pragmatically
  • Ensure effective use of tooling and platform capabilities by driving adoption of shared frameworks, CI/CD practices, and quality standards
  • Provide clear visibility into quality by surfacing risks, trade-offs, and coverage gaps to support informed decisions
  • Contribute beyond your team by sharing practices and helping raise overall quality maturity across teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or QA within cross-functional teams
  • Experience working on complex systems (e.g. APIs, distributed systems, or multi-layer applications)
  • Strong understanding of testing across different levels (unit, integration, end-to-end)
  • Practical experience with test automation and how it fits into modern development workflows
  • Experience working in environments where teams own testing and quality
  • Ability to guide teams on structuring test coverage and making pragmatic quality decisions
  • Experience working with CI/CD and continuous delivery environments
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence engineers and product stakeholders
Benefits
  • 100% remote work
  • Join a supportive and dynamic team
  • Long-term commitment for contract-based role
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Quality Engineeringtest automationunit testingintegration testingend-to-end testingtesting strategyexploratory testingCI/CDquality standardstesting patterns
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluencingguiding teamscollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingorganizational skillsadaptabilitymentoringleadership