Senior QA Engineer (Automation / SDET)
About The Position
Level All is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to establish and evolve a modern, scalable quality engineering practice across their applications. This is a hands-on role focused on automation, exploratory testing, and building confidence in production systems. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify critical user workflows, uncover edge cases, and build robust automated testing systems. The role emphasizes shared responsibility for quality, aiming to improve release confidence without slowing development velocity. The position involves establishing an end-to-end testing strategy, including automated test suites for pull requests and continuous/nightly regression and performance testing. The ideal candidate is proactive in identifying unintended user behavior and edge cases, possesses strong autonomy, excellent communication skills, and a focus on scalable quality engineering.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of professional experience in QA Engineering, SDET, or quality-focused software engineering roles
- Strong experience building and maintaining end-to-end automation frameworks from the ground up
- Deep hands-on experience with Cypress, Playwright, or similar browser automation tools
- Experience testing modern frontend applications and APIs in production environments
- Experience designing automated regression strategies for CI/CD environments
- Strong understanding of exploratory testing, black-box testing, and real-world user behavior analysis
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across frontend and API layers
- Experience identifying functional regressions, usability issues, and edge-case failures
- Strong appreciation for engineering quality, maintainability, and scalable testing practices
Nice To Haves
- Experience mentoring or guiding other QA engineers or developers is a strong plus
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end test automation frameworks using Cypress, Playwright, or similar tooling
- Create lightweight smoke and spot-check suites that run against every pull request
- Build broader nightly regression suites focused on functional stability, user workflows, and performance regressions
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Customer Success teams to identify high-risk workflows and critical user journeys
- Perform hands-on exploratory and black-box testing to uncover edge cases and unintended behaviors
- Develop testing strategies that reflect real-world user behavior rather than only expected happy paths
- Help improve application reliability, release confidence, and overall engineering quality culture
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure new functionality is covered by automated testing over time
- Contribute to CI/CD testing workflows and release processes
- Help define QA standards, tooling, and long-term automation strategy across multiple applications
- Investigate emerging approaches to AI-assisted testing, intelligent test generation, and modern quality engineering workflows
- Identify opportunities for performance, resilience, and potentially security-focused testing improvements
Benefits
- Comprehensive package of benefits
- Stock-based compensation
- Variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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