Quality Assurance/Control (QA/QC) Senior Engineer

Salt Lake County • Salt Lake City, UT

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love! Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading. What it is like to work here: At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop. Surround yourself with: Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together. We encourage a work life balance: Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year. We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office. Additional Benefits include: Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option Professional Development Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities. JOB SUMMARY Leads and performs enterprise-level quality assurance activities supporting Salt Lake County’s application development, digital services, and web platforms. Ensures software solutions meet business requirements, functional specifications, security standards, and user expectations through structured Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) practices. Supports projects across IT and the County, and embeds quality practices throughout the system development life cycle to reduce risk, improve delivery outcomes, and ensure stable, secure, and maintainable systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology (IT) or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of quality assurance and testing experience in a similar environment, size, and scope; OR an equivalent combination of eight (8) years of related education and experience, including at least four (4) years of quality assurance and testing experience in a similar environment, size, and scope.
• Knowledge of: Coordinating QA and testing programs supporting multiple applications and businesses Manual and automated test strategy QA approaches and best practices in hybrid (on prem and cloud) environments QA best practices and integration within CI/CD and DevOps Agile project management methodologies Business analysis principles Microsoft Office applications Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Skills and Abilities to: Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing Approach a problem through a logical, systematic, and sequential process Effectively apply general principles to specific conditions Provide team leadership and lead diverse teams to consensus Facilitate projects and meetings as assigned Work with all levels of the organization Analyze business and technical processes and determine ways to integrate QA Remain calm under stress and quickly adjust, evolve, and multi-task between several competing priorities at once Maintain confidentiality and professionalism
• Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

Nice To Haves

• One (1) year of experience of incorporating QA into CI/CD processes and working in a DevOps team is preferred.
• Professional certifications in the QA and testing field (ASQ, ISO9000, IOSQA, CSQA) are preferred.
• Knowledge of: Local government operations (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Leads quality assurance activities across multiple IT projects and operational systems.
• Serves as the QA subject-matter expert for application development initiatives.
• Validates business requirements against delivered functionality.
• Identifies, documents, tracks, and verifies defect resolution.
• Defines, implements, and continuously improves QA standards and methodologies.
• Plans, designs, and executes functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing.
• Participates in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Embeds QA practices into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
• Supports automated testing strategies where appropriate.
• Provides QA oversight for enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Identifies quality risks and recommends mitigation strategies.
• Maintains test plans, test cases, execution results, and defect metrics.
• Provides quality status reporting to IT leadership.
• Collaborates with developers, analysts, project managers, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Supports audit, compliance, and governance activities.

Benefits

• We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.
• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
• Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level